I have relied on this quote quite a bit over the last week about the authority of audio when dealing with ethnographies. Based on my initial forays into my chosen …
Group identity and netography: Kozinet and Community
I am personally enamored of Kozinet’s “Understanding Online Culture” as it seems a great primer for understanding research into online culture. I think it helps debunk, or at least put …
Week 2 Review: A search for a brighter shade of dystopian presentation
The second week of my Lifestream is illustrative of my general predilections as a learner and film consumer. During this week #ededc explored the notion of posthuman through several films …
Catfish, Social Network and Artistic Representations of Digital Culture
There are two films coming out soon that seem to be some of the initial attempts to create narratives specifically from social media, namely the culture that exists within social …
Initial thoughts on cyberculture and the search for the nuanced middle ground
I am in the process of doing the initial readings for courses at the University of Edinburgh that are about to start up for the semester. One of these is …