Twitter’s IPO: a financial perspective on our emergent social-media world

For the past several decades, the stock market and the financial world seem to be increasingly abstracted from “the real Continue reading →

New Media Practices and the 2012 Presidential Elections

The past few posts I have written all belong to a collection of case studies about new media practices and Continue reading →

#Ivoted: Documenting the Vote in the 2012 Elections

In the lengthy and involved media spectacle surrounding the 2012 elections, the day of reckoning is of course voting day. Continue reading →

Live-tweeting democracy: the fantasy of representation

Twitter and the 2012 Elections: Media Practice and Politics Whereas Facebook is a platform that treats politics as more or Continue reading →

Some Important Resources for ‘Theorizing the Web’

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KONY 2012: An Anthropological Perspective (TO BE CONTINUED)

“Right now there are more people on Facebook than there were on the planet 200 years ago”-opening line of Kony Continue reading →