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A talk at Oxford Internet Institution
by Shriram and Xinyuan Our research Shriram and Xinyuan giving an talk about social media in India and China at Oxford Internet Institution It is always good practice to exchange knowledge and ideas...
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Our panel at the American Anthropological Association Meeting
The Global Social Media Impact Study will be presenting a special Invited Panel entitled Global Social Media and Global Social Anthropology at the American Anthropological Association Meeting at...
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It’s all in the comments: the sociality behind social media
boys in the fieldsite hang out after school and look at Facebook on a mobile phone As I begin to write my book about social media in Northern Chile, it’s great to see little insights emerge. One of the...
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Social media Goldilocks: Keeping friendship at a distance
Many people seem to think that social media such as Facebook are principally a means to find and to develop relationships such as friendship. Clearly those people don’t try to study the English. I have...
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Why is Facebook so important for highly-educated unemployed people?
The satirical blog spinoza.it is a most famous result of the phenomena I am describing in this post. With more than 500k followers on Facebook and more than 600k on Twitter, lines taken over by Italian...
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Does Facebook produce reality?
Facebook meme Researchers of the Global Social Media Impact Study are currently writing a chapter about the visual material posted on social media. For this reason I’ve been carefully observing my...
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WhatsApp: A pain in the arse
Image courtesy of Josh Stocco, Creative Commons It is not uncommon for the people of Balduino to discuss sex. Even my least talkative informants enjoyed telling me about their love affairs outside...
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The church or Facebook: Which is community-lite?
In The Glades it is very common for people to imply that organisations such as the church represent genuine communities which are now being undermined and replaced by social media such as Facebook...
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The myth of ‘un-edited’ photos on QQ albums of Chinese rural migrants
In the analysis of visual content on people’s social media profiles, I found many of my informants (around 70%) have uploaded a great amount of un-edited photos to their online album. Furthermore,...
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Upcoming seminar at SOAS Center for Media Studies
SOAS Main Building (Photo by SOAS CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) We are holding a public talk about our research at the SOAS Centre for Media Studies as part of their weekly seminar series. Feel free to come along...
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