Al-Sisi On-Line: Egypt’s President On Social Media
In Egypt, President Hosni Mubarak notoriously was anything but sophisticated in his understanding of social media. Seeing it as a toy available only to an educated and relatively…
Tag: social media
The immigrants ‘crisis’ and the limits of Facebook
Photomontage realised by Vento Ribelle and posted on their Facebook page on the 20 April 2015 and shared by left-wing individuals in Grano. This post is prompted by the…
Guggenheim Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
Via Guggenheim.org This month, the Guggenheim Museum is proud to donate 100 images of artworks to Wikipedia, including selections from the museum’s collection by Edgar Degas, Paul Klee,…
16. A letter from Jakarta
Many years ago, in 1987, I left Madrid and came to Jakarta to become a journalist. For about a year, I was a trainee at Tempo magazine and…
15. Location technologists: the politics of digital media in a ‘special region’ of Indonesia
Chapter proposal to Location Technologies in International Context, Rowan Wilken (Swinburne Uni of Tech), Gerard Goggin (U of Sydney) & Heather Horst (RMIT), eds. John Postill RMIT University…
Social Media Tips for Birth Pros
My first tip for Birth Professionals is to Use Social Media! Social media is used by a growing number of men and women of reproductive age, so it…
Social Media Tips for Birth Pros
My first tip for Birth Professionals is to Use Social Media! Social media is used by a growing number of men and women of reproductive age, so it…
Social Media Tips for Birth Pros
My first tip for Birth Professionals is to Use Social Media! Social media is used by a growing number of men and women of reproductive age, so it…
Social Media Tips for Birth Pros
My first tip for Birth Professionals is to Use Social Media! Social media is used by a growing number of men and women of reproductive age, so it…
Realism or Iconography? The Pentagon’s Implicit Theory of Visual Representation
The following is an extract from my chapter, “A Flickr of Militarization: Photographic Regulation, Symbolic Consecration, and the Strategic Communication of ‘Good Intentions’,” published in Good Int…
The US Military as Great Chief, Father, Doctor, and Babysitter
The following is an extract from my chapter, “A Flickr of Militarization: Photographic Regulation, Symbolic Consecration, and the Strategic Communication of ‘Good Intentions’,” published in Good Int…
The Visual Imperium
The following is an extract from my chapter, “A Flickr of Militarization: Photographic Regulation, Symbolic Consecration, and the Strategic Communication of ‘Good Intentions’,” published in Good Int…
Article: Social media in remote First Nation communities
Molyneaux, H., O’Donnell, S., Kakekaspan, C., Walmark, B., Budka, P., Gibson, K. 2014. Social media in remote First Nation communities. Canadian Journal of Communication, 39(2): 275-288. Abstract Comm…
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 the 2012 elections. I want to collect them…
#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. Traditionally, media messaging switches from heated horse-race coverage…
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 less taboo, Twitter’s network is made up substantially…
Tagging Dublin
What influences people to engage in their surroundings? One experiment in this field is by the Dublin Design Collective, who mounted signs various places in Dublin this week,…
Tagging Dublin
What influences people to engage in their surroundings? One experiment in this field is by the Dublin Design Collective, who mounted signs various places in Dublin this week,…
Tagging Dublin
What influences people to engage in their surroundings? One experiment in this field is by the Dublin Design Collective, who mounted signs various places in Dublin this week,…
Tagging Dublin
What influences people to engage in their surroundings? One experiment in this field is by the Dublin Design Collective, who mounted signs various places in Dublin this week,…
Socialnomics/Social Media’s presence
(Click this > to watch) Socialnomics/Social Media’s presence Akin to my previous comments on the attachment of teenagers to phones and the way that social media has changed social…