As my summer research fellowship draws to an end, I’ve been thinking about some next steps in my professional career. Beginning this fall, I’ll be open to exploring select consulting and advisory opportunities. My areas of practice will be social technology, mobile, digital identity and application design.
Granted, I’ve been doing this sort [...]
The new edition of JCMC leads with a paper from the MSU team of Ellison, Lampe and Steinfeld, entitled The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites. The abstract:
This study examines the relationship between use of Facebook, a popular online social network site, and the formation [...]
After a remarkably quick two weeks, the Oxford Internet Institute Summer Doctoral Program is drawing to a close. It has been a great two weeks here at Harvard, and I know we will all look back very fondly on the experience. While the life of the graduate student has its standard drawbacks, it [...]
I’m officially bummed that the newsfeed has grown so spammy that I get no value out of it anymore. Logging in and seeing this ad in my newsfeed really is a fitting coup de grâce.
Just under two weeks to go till BarCampRDU, and we’re very busy with preparations. We need your help with a few things:
1) Wireless routers: We need people to bring wireless routers to BarCampRDU. Without them, we won’t have internet. If you can bring your wireless router, please add your name to the wiki [...]
This evening, I went to approve a friend request on Facebook, only to find that I was now forced to fill out the details of my friendship with this individual. Had we lived together or worked togther? Had we met randomly, or through Facebook? Apparently, no longer do we have the option [...]
As many of you are likely aware, the past month or so has been all-Facebook, all the time. It’s an exciting time for Facebook, though the whole “Facebook is the next…” genre or blog post is wearing a little thin. This post was inspired by an article Wired released a few days ago, [...]
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