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Embedded/embedding media practices and cultural production
Rao, U. (forthcoming) Embedded/embedding media practices and cultural production. In Bräuchler, B. and J. Postill (eds) Theorising Media and Practice. Oxford and New York: Berghahn. This chapter draws...
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The anomaly of personal networks
Personal networks are truly anomalous social formations. Unlike most other social formations studied by social scientists (e.g. peer groups, cohorts, kindreds, ethnic groups, clans, age-sets,...
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The limits of networked individualism
Local leadership and digital technologies in a Kuala Lumpur suburb Dr John Postill Paper to the media and communication research seminar Sheffield Halllam University, UK Furnival Building, Room 9005,...
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The field affordances of personal media
This is the fifth in a series of posts on my working paper “Local leadership and personal media: a practice-theoretical approach”. See previous post here and first post here. Personal media (email,...
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Another review of Castells et al (2006) Mobile Communication and Society
Not long ago I linked up on this blog to Heather Horst’s helpful review of Castells et al’s (2006) book Mobile Communication and Society. I’ve just come across another review of the same book, this...
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The weakness of weak ties
I have just submitted an article for publication entitled ”The weakness of weak ties: personal media and social leadership in a Malaysian suburb”. Many thanks to those of you who’ve contributed to...
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Why not call them personal network sites?
I’ve often wondered why scholars studying Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, etc., call these platforms ‘social network sites’ instead of personal network sites. After all, these are platforms built around...
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Is there such a thing as a personal field?
We’ve all heard by now of personal (or ego-centred) networks and of social fields (say, the field of acupuncture in Oslo, or the field of sociology in France), but what about personal fields, i.e. an...
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An intriguing image of the 127 Twitterers I follow
The Oxford Internet Institute MSc. student Alexander Furnas (@alexanderfurnas) has just sent me this striking image of the 127 people I currently follow on Twitter. As my knowledge of social network...
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