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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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Normativity on social media in Northern Chile

As many entries in the blog affirm, local cultural aspects are often reflected or made even more visual on social media. As I have written before of my fieldsite, there is a certain normativity that...

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How much hate is there on Facebook?

One of the 10 best memes of 2013 according to wired.com This blog post was inspired by one question Sonia Livingstone asked the Global Social Media Impact Study team after our joint presentation at...

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Social media and the shifting boundaries between private and public in a...

Photo posted on the Facebook profile of a research participant Facebook is designed to encourage people to reveal information about themselves, and the market model of Facebook’s founder Mark...

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What’s our conclusion? Introducing ‘scalable sociality’

Scalable Sociality Right now we are finishing the last of our eleven volumes from this project, a book which will be called How the World Changed Social Media. Not surprisingly, people are starting to...

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Personal and public aesthetics: What I learned from my own visceral reactions...

Photo by Nell Hayes At first, I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but over the first several months in my fieldsite in northern Chile I began to realize that one of the reasons I never quite felt...

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Kurds, ISIS and internet censorship in Turkey

Facebook profile picture from south-east Turkey Kurds living in Mardin tend to not use social media for political expression when it involves a direct critique of the Turkish State, Turkish authorities...

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Facebook and the State: propaganda memes in Turkey

Propaganda meme that has widely circulated on social media during the protest of March 2014 The academic and journalistic accounts on the political uses of social media have mainly emphasized the...

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WhatsApp ban in Brazil: the word on the ground

  The text above the image reads: ‘me without WhatsApp’.   In this post Juliano Spyer suggests that the vocal backlash against the recent blocking of WhatsApp in Brazil would have been even stronger if...

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What does social media tell us about sociality in Grano?

‘Good morning’ message received on WhatsApp [double-click on the image to see the video].So, what does the ethnography of social media use in southeast Italy tells us? In my forthcoming book I argue...

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