recent projects
i’ve been continuing to think about questions of mobility, spatial scales, and technology, particularly in terms of how our ideas about mobility often influence what kind of new media are developed and...
View Articlenetbooks: lowering the bar to entry
reading various tech blogs and discussion boards lately, i’ve been following some of the debate around “netbooks,” small, underpowered laptops that cost much less than full-sized ones. so-called...
View Articlewomen and video games
my friend and fellow grad student Morgan Romine was featured on Fast Company earlier this month, blogging on “Why Women Should Play Video Games.” Here’s an exerpt: I realize that gaming is still a...
View ArticleFrom anonymity to exhibitionism: whither Twitter?
Twitter users are described as "exhibitionists" who have only superficial online friendships, and who confuse microblogging with real social connections...
View Articlewhat ever happened to micro-payments?
with all this talk of the demise of newspapers (and potentially, print journalism), i find myself thinking back to the model of micro-payments (or microcommerce) that has previously been proposed as an...
View ArticleParticipate in a study about social media and international users
I’m conducting some research this summer in the San Francisco Bay area, on social media and localization — if you might be interested, read on! Are you employed in the field of social media or Web 2.0?...
View Articlewelcome to style over content
informed by my research as a cultural anthropologist, i write about social and digital media, popular culture, and how social worlds are changing in relation to new communications technologies. why is...
View ArticleDML Conference in Long Beach this week
I’m looking forward to the Digital Media and Learning conference this week in Long Beach. I’m giving a short talk on Friday at 11am, as part of a panel titled “The Social Dimensions of Emerging...
View ArticleAnthropology of Social Networking at UCL
Thanks to Daniel Miller at University College London for organizing a new resource for the anthropology of social networking and social media: Anthropology of Social Networking. The website includes...
View ArticleNew blog on anthropology & STS from CASTAC!
My colleagues and I at CASTAC (the Committee for the Anthropology of Science, Technology, and Computing) have just launched a new blog on anthropological studies of science and technology:...
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