Author: Tom McDonald
Tom McDonald , March 14th, 2017
Earlier this month, I was very fortunate to be interviewed by the BBC on my research onto the use of technology in China. The article that was published…
Tom McDonald , April 12th, 2016
Every evening in Anshan Town, a rural village in China’s Shandong province, around 25 middle-aged women gather in the small public square to dance to the Black Eyed…
Tom McDonald , February 29th, 2016
Released today: ‘How the World Changed Social Media’ After years of work and planning, we have today launched Why We Post, which represents the results of our project….
Tom McDonald , February 11th, 2016
Tom McDonald and Xinyuan Wang introduce China’s social media platforms Chinese social media is remarkable because despite extensive media coverage and academic research, these platforms remain s…
Tom McDonald , July 30th, 2015
Can you help us build our dissemination materials? (photo by MF) As part of our project’s ambitious dissemination plans we are currently seeking to recruit a content manager to assist…
Tom McDonald , July 21st, 2015
The project team filming a video for our online course Recently we have been filming a new online course on the anthropology of social media that will be available…
Tom McDonald , June 18th, 2015
Our project field site locations A question we are often asked is how we selected our field sites for the project. Why these nine sites? Why are there…
Tom McDonald , May 28th, 2015
A typical shopfront in the North China fieldsite (Photo: Gillian Bolsover) One surprising feature of QQ – the most popular social media platform in the rural Chinese town where…
Tom McDonald , May 11th, 2015
Weibo: share your thoughts with the world (assuming, of course, you actually want to). Photo: bfishadow (CC BY 2.0) I read with interest Celia Hatton’s BBC News article published…