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Digital Sociology Podcast
I’m really happy to share with you all a lovely interview I had with Dr Chris Till, a lovely and talented lecturer at Leeds Beckett University.
The interview is the latest episode of his Digital Sociology podcast series, where Chris interviews researchers about their work. It was a real pleasure and an indulgence to get to talk to an engaged audience about my work. Chris is a great interviewer…
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Understanding the Social in a Digital Age
Understanding the Social in a Digital Age. Call for papers (#CfP) for a free one-day conference unpacking the 'social' in social media
I’m really proud to be running this brilliant event with the equally brilliant Zoetanya Sujon. We’ve been planning this for a while now, and we’re really happy to release the call for papers. It’s a free event, with two brilliant and exciting keynote speakers. We’d love it to be a lively day, so please do submit abstracts.
If you have any questions, email us at @[email protected].…
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Understanding the Social in a Digital Age Really proud to be running this brilliant event with Zoetanya Sujon. We've been planning this for a while now, and we're really happy to release the call for papers.
ACCS 2018 Panel - Fearful Futures and How to Navigate Them
ACCS 2018 Panel details - Fearful Futures and How to Navigate Them Come see our team from @CCSEResearch present our latest research!
Next week I’m going to be heading to Japan to attend the Asian Conference on Cultural Studies with some of my UEA colleagues from the School of Education and Lifelong learning.
The conference theme is: ‘Fearful Futures: Cultural Studies and the Question of Agency in the Twenty-First Century’. It looks like an amazing event, with some really interesting panels and speakers. The full programme can…
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Call for Papers: Digital Culture and Education
Call for Papers: Digital Culture and Education
A call for papers is out for a special edition of Digital Culture & Education, an international open access peer-reviewed journal. I recently got named as an editor of the journal and am really happy to be helping to launch this exciting special edition.
Full information can be found here, feel free to email me for a discussion about it!
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La plume de ma tante... What French language lessons can tell us about current UK digital skills education
A quick French lesson
Over the last few days I’ve been mulling over the state of digital skills education in the current UK educational system, reflecting on a phrase that I randomly heard for the first time in forever on a BBC podcast – “La plume de ma tante”.
For those not familiar, ‘la plume de ma tante’ was a phrase commonly used in French language teaching in the UK for the first half of the…
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Upcoming one-day conference, Oxford, January 2018
As this year closes in already filling up my diary for 2018… First event London the books for me is a brilliant and rammed one-day event in Oxford about ‘materialities and mobilities in Education’.
I’ll be presenting my latest about how technology in shaping transitions into higher education. The entire day looks amazing and I’m hoping to catch as many talks as possible. Apparently the event is…
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Call for Papers (#CFP) #SMSociety18
Call for Papers (#CFP) #SMSociety18
The call for papers for SMSociety18 has been released and it sounds like a really great event.
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One day symposium on ‘researching young people, digital technologies and health’
Apologies for the lack of posts here lately! It’s been a manic summer full of running around, writing, and planning my next research project, and I’ve already sunk back into the new year teaching schedule…
If you’re curious about some of the things I’ve been doing this summer, you can listen to this podcast I recorded over the summer, or read this articleI wrote for The Conversation. I’ll be…
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Online news, fake news, filter bubbles, and mainstream media. Or how I learnt to stop retweeting Trump.
A report came out today from the Reuters Institute in Oxford University, published by Rasmus Neilsen, detailing where people get their news nowadays. It’s really interesting, and confirms what many researchers have suggested in the last few years, that the internet is becoming an important space for the production, consumption, and sharing of news.
The report notes that 84% of the 18-24 year old…
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Kendall Jenner’s Pepsi Problem: What the internet reaction tells us about the relationship between media and consumers.
Kendall Jenner's Pepsi Problem. The kids are alright
A while ago I wrote a blog postabout the Kylie Jenner Lip Challenge; a craze taking the internet by storm (or, at least, heavily reported across various media channels – but that’s a distinction for whole other blog post…) in which people filmed/photographed themselves trying to get fuller lips by creating a vacuum around them. The results were obviously not great, and it led to many a…
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Call For Papers on Language, New Media and Alt-Realities
Call for papers #CfP Language, New Media, & Alt-realities
If you’re interested in/researching ‘fake news’, alternative facts, clickbait, and/or the ‘decline’ of ‘experts’ (really not sure how many scare quotes to use here…) then check out this call for papers below. Sounds like a really interesting conference. The submission deadline is a little tight, but I’m going to try to attend if nothing else!
Details below:
Language, New Media and…
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We need to talk about Growing Up Digital...
We need to talk about Growing Up Digital…
The new Growing up Digital report came out in the UK today from the Children’s Commissioner (Find it here). It’s a nuanced report with many interesting ideas and thoughts about the internet. It acknowledges that children are on the internet more, and that this is not going to change. It acknowledges the internet can be a great place (It literally starts with the sentence “The internet is an…
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Online anonymity: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Online anonymity: the good, the bad, and the ugly.
An article came out today by J. Nathan Matias (find it here, it’s really interesting) calling for a re-examination of online anonymity, which for so long has been painted as a pantomime villain that automatically leads to abuse and problematic behaviour.
In the article J. Nathan Matias argues in essence for a reversal of the approach to anonymity and abuse, calling for a re-evaluation of online…
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What social media data should I use in my research? A response to Choi et al (2016).
What social media data should I use in my research? #DigitalSociology #DigitalResearch
Firstly, apologies for not blogging in quite a while; I’ve been finishing of my PhD which I’m super happy to announce I passed, with no corrections B-). It’s been a long process but I’m really proud of the finished product and I’m working on getting publications and a book out from it ASAP. Stay tuned for more news!
Secondly, and to get to the point of this post, a great article has just been…
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Choosing research participants for Digital Research I'm just writing up the sampling section of my thesis, so I'm revisiting this now. I'm so glad I decided to allow the participants to tell me their story.
Picturing the Social Conference
Picturing the Social Conference
This sounds like such a great event. Below the break is the details of a one-day conference on June 20th in Manchester with some really awesome people talking about image sharing and online visual culture. Thanks to the always awesome Mark Carrigan for the heads-up about this one! If you’re not following him I thoroughly recommend that you do!
As the internet becomes increasingly multi-modal,…
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