David Beer Just before midnight on the 6th of October 2016 the pound suddenly dropped by 6% before [...]
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This is the rhythm of our (social media) lives
Elinor Carmi What is that noise? I opened the newspaper and the headline was screaming “Saving New York [...]
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Understanding Twitch Chat: New Forms of Digital Community and Play
Mark Johnson and Jamie Woodcock Twitch is an online platform that enables anyone with a mid-range computer and [...]
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Digital Afterlives: Learning from Blogs of the Terminally Ill
Timothy Recuber You are going to die. It could happen soon. Suddenly. Before you’d ever even given much [...]
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Engines of Knowledge: The Museum and the Exhibit
Hamish Robertson My focus is on what I have termed, after Ian Hacking’s idea, engines of knowledge. This [...]
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The Call Centre and the Future of Work
Jamie Woodcock (interviewed by Mark Carrigan) How did the call centre emerge and proliferate? Would it be a [...]
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Social Media or Social Web?
Janet Salmons Rain makes the flowers grow, unless it becomes a flood that destroys the garden. Fire keeps [...]
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The social in the platform trap: Why a microscopic system focus limits the prospect of social machines
Markus Luczak-Roesch and Ramine Tinati “Filter bubble”, “echo chambers”, “information diet” – the metaphors to describe today’s information [...]
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Shadows of the Dead: Social Media and our Changing Relationship with the Departed
Debra Bassett The beginning of our lives are celebrated, chronicled and publicised, whilst the end of our lives [...]
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Wet-nursing: A significant female occupation in the early modern bodily marketplace
Charlotte Rhian Jones In recent years the multibillion-dollar trans-national surrogacy industry was brought to global attention when an [...]
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