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‘Big data’ or ‘Data with a soul’?
Image: Thegreenfly (Creative Commons) What is big data? In the digital era, the data produced by people on an everyday basis is myriad. There is always more data coming into being, and it is growing at...
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Something we take for granted in the digital age
Photo: Enkhtuvshin’s 5DmkII (Creative Commons) The other day I was talking with my friend via Skype, whilst at the same time using my smartphone to check some information. I couldn’t find it anywhere....
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Two worlds
The bed of my informant CY, which she shares with her little sister (photo by Xin Yuan Wang) The more that I get to know people here in the South China fieldsite, the more I see the sharp distinction...
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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, social distance, and inconsistency
Photo by Razvan Nicolescu. This post is about what people in the Italian fieldsite feel their peers should not do on social media. Here is a fragment from an interview with a 18 year old student on an...
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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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Resurrecting and Remixing for Youtube Fame
Photo by Nell Haynes The latest music craze here in Northern Chile is actually a song from 1993. Italian band Corona’s Rhythm of the Night has been stuck in the collective brain of young Chileans for...
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Normativity on social media in Northern Chile
As many entries in the blog affirm, local cultural aspects are often reflected or made even more visual on social media. As I have written before of my fieldsite, there is a certain normativity that...
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Personal and public aesthetics: What I learned from my own visceral reactions...
Photo by Nell Hayes At first, I couldn’t quite put my finger on it, but over the first several months in my fieldsite in northern Chile I began to realize that one of the reasons I never quite felt...
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