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The role of social networking and technology in relationship difficulties

Photo by Asela (Creative Commons) I heard a fascinating piece on BBC Radio 4’s Today program this morning on how men often find it difficult to understand relationship problems, which can lead to a...

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Social media as ageist?

Left- an old man is choosing an ‘old people phone’; right- the interface of the ‘old people phone’. (Photo by Xin Yuan Wang) By Jolynna Sinanan and Xin Yuan Wang We had the opportunity to talk...

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Strategies of scarcity and supply: water and bandwidth

The water tankered makes a delivery (Photo: Tom McDonald) Fieldwork normally involves bearing some hardships, however I never thought that at the start of my research in China that water would have...

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Love is… sending 400 texts to your girlfriend everyday

Photo by Knight 725 (Creative Commons) One of the most surprising pieces of data emerging from the 100 questionnaires I’ve submitted to my informants in our Turkish fielsite regarding their use of...

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Snapshots from the field: Using social media in the Italian fieldsite

People walking in the central square of a small town close to the fieldsite during a local feast. Photo by Razvan Nicolescu. Sandra is a 34 year old lawyer and considers herself to be quite successful....

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Social media in social spaces

Toasting to New Friends (Photo by Nell Haynes) The first time I was invited out by friends on a Friday night in my fieldsite in Northern Chile, I was surprised by the ways social media and technology...

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Photography in the age of Snapchat

Photo by Island Capture Photography (Creative Commons) I want to suggest that conventionally when we consider the role of the photograph in society, we see this as a kind of three stage movement. First...

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Public and private: space and media

Photo by Nell Haynes When Daniel Miller came to visit my fieldsite in Northern Chile a few weeks ago, I took him on a walking tour of the city. He had just arrived from his own fieldsite in Trinidad,...

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The role of social networking and technology in relationship difficulties

Photo by Asela (Creative Commons) I heard a fascinating piece on BBC Radio 4’s Today program this morning on how men often find it difficult to understand relationship problems, which can lead to a...

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Social media as ageist?

Left- an old man is choosing an ‘old people phone'; right- the interface of the ‘old people phone’. (Photo by Xin Yuan Wang) By Jolynna Sinanan and Xin Yuan Wang We had the opportunity to talk...

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Strategies of scarcity and supply: water and bandwidth

The water tankered makes a delivery (Photo: Tom McDonald) Fieldwork normally involves bearing some hardships, however I never thought that at the start of my research in China that water would have...

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Love is… sending 400 texts to your girlfriend everyday

Photo by Knight 725 (Creative Commons) One of the most surprising pieces of data emerging from the 100 questionnaires I’ve submitted to my informants in our Turkish fielsite regarding their use of...

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Snapshots from the field: using social media in the Italian fieldsite

People walking in the central square of a small town close to the fieldsite during a local feast. Photo by Razvan Nicolescu. Sandra is a 34 year old lawyer and considers herself to be quite successful....

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Social media in social spaces

Toasting to New Friends (Photo by Nell Haynes) The first time I was invited out by friends on a Friday night in my fieldsite in Northern Chile, I was surprised by the ways social media and technology...

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Photography in the age of Snapchat

Photo by Island Capture Photography (Creative Commons) I want to suggest that conventionally when we consider the role of the photograph in society, we see this as a kind of three stage movement. First...

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Public and private: space and media

Photo by Nell Haynes When Daniel Miller came to visit my fieldsite in Northern Chile a few weeks ago, I took him on a walking tour of the city. He had just arrived from his own fieldsite in Trinidad,...

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Digital photo albums in south-east Turkey

Photo by Elisabetta Costa Anytime I become close to a family after having visited them at least a couple of times, my new friends usually show me their family photo albums. So far this has happened in...

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Chinese low-end smartphone market: the era of ‘shanzhai’ has passed, budget...

Budget smartphones on sale at a local mobile phone shop in a small factory town ( Southeastern China). My individual project began with one general inquiry about the social media use among Chinese...

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Apple and the Smartphone market in India

Photo Courtesy: CC: Wikimedia Commons: Kārlis Dambrāns from Latvia Less than a fifth of the Indian population might own a smart phone, but India is now the second largest smart phone market in the...

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