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The secret world of the inbox
Photo courtesy of Harlan Harris, Creative Commons This is my last week in my field site until 2014. I’ve been hussling to spend as much time with as many people as I can in the last couple of weeks,...
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Connecting the dots
El Mirador has a small and unexpected population that I found to make up a significant part of my research. We all like our comforts away from home, and mine was the little Chinese restaurant on the...
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Audience vs. Community in blogs and Facebook
Image courtesy of GlowPlug, Creative Commons Having finished fieldwork for the time being has brought with it some time to reflect, read and think about what all this data will become once it grows up...
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Facebook as freedom
Image courtesy of Creative Commons We started this project by thinking about Facebook as an ‘in’ to understanding the social totality of people’s lives. Facebook may be the means, but relationships are...
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Digital public, publics, publicness
(image, courtesy of davitydave, Creative Commons) Doing what is essentially two simultaneous ethnographies is no simple task (‘Simple’ as in ‘straightforward’, not ‘easy’. Conducting ethnography is...
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The continuum of visibility
Photo by Jolynna Sinanan If Facebook is a visual platform-one where people can show aspects of themselves through words in posts, or what was status updates or comments and in photos that they have...
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Visibility in the society pages of social media
Photo by Jolynna Sinanan I have passed the 10 month point in fieldwork where I am perhaps getting a bit too comfortable with being in Trinidad. Like hundreds of thousands of Trinidadians this month,...
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Fitting In: Real methods in anthropology
By Elisabetta Costa, Nell Haynes, Tom McDonald, Daniel Miller, Razvan Nicolescu, Jolynna Sinanan, Juliano Spyer, Shriram Venkatraman, and Xin Yuan Wang Qzone profile by Amber Wang Most disciplines have...
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Surveying Social Relationships
One of the chapters of our forthcoming book How the World Changed Social Media, which will be published as an Open Access book by UCL Press in February 2016, describes a survey consisting of 43...
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Normativity and social visibility
It has been exactly a year since finishing 15 months of fieldwork in Trinidad. Stories for this blog have moved further and further away from cool stuff that was coming out of the field and living in...
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Nostalgia for a field Christmas
Image courtesy of shanzmataz. It’s the first time I’ve been away from Christmas in Trinidad since I started fieldwork there in 2011 (oh wait, I was home briefly in 2013). December to February is about...
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Visualising Facebook by Daniel Miller and Jolynna Sinanan
Today marks the publication of a new book called Visualising Facebook, which I have written with Dr Jolynna Sinanan. It is available as a free download from UCL Press and also for purchase in physical...
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