Facebook has recently announced a shift in its focus towards “the future as private” which includes a growing emphasis on closed groups and the introduction of encrypted messaging. Continue reading “Facebook’s Privacy Turn: New Protections or New Markets?”
Harry T. Dyer and I have been burning the midnight oil editing a New Media & Society special issue on ‘Understanding the Social in a Digital Age‘. This is what I’ve learned. Continue reading “Editorial insights: Fit, coherence and craft”
As social media and big tech like Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Apple (GAFA) become increasingly dominant, it seems the social is at once all around us and also increasingly elusive. Continue reading “What does it mean to be ‘social’ in a digital age?”
Today, for the first time in a long time of studying multiple texts, from multiple disciplines, Continue reading “How to say what matters: On media training and research communication”
As of September, I will be a new member of the Media School in LCC (London College of Communication) at the UAL (University of Arts London). Continue reading “New job! Joining UAL in September”
I am delighted to announce that Harry Dyer and I are organizing a conference at University of East Anglia next January:
Continue reading “Understanding the Social in a Digital Age”
One of my greatest joys recently has been working with our team at Regent’s University London to develop and create our new MA in Media and Digital Communications.
Recently, I was asked to give a short presentation on what “emerging media practice” means to me and how this concept informs Continue reading “Thinking through “emerging media practice””
I am really pleased to share that I have signed the contract with Sage for my first book, titled ‘The Social Media Age: Power and Participation in a Connected World’. Bring on 2019! Continue reading “Signed my first book contract for ‘The Social Media Age’!”