February 2012
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What does not make you British →
Look at Channel 4’s fake Tweet Cloud. Then look closely at the contents of the tweets on the #makesyoubritish twitter tag and laugh at their epic fail.
January 2012
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Barnett, Ramsay and Gaber (2012), 'From Callaghan... →
Heard some of the findings from this new report into TV news at MeCCSA today. Very interesting paper from the sounds of things…
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MeCCSA 2012 slides
http://www.slideshare.net/rad6380/regulating-belief
December 2011
10 posts
Doctor Who Abridged: The Doctor, The Widow and The...
theillustriousmissjo:
[Warning: spoilers for the Christmas special obviously.]
THE DOCTOR, THE WIDOW AND THE WARDROBE (ACTUALLY NEVER MIND THE WARDROBE)
Space: where there is no air. Take note, this will be important later. Spaceship: SUP EARTH WE ARE HERE TO INVADE YOU haha no not really. We’re not going to do another Earth-gets-invaded-by-aliens story. That would be boring. Doctor: OH MAN...
When you realise you’d better get on with it →
My friend Jennifer has blogged about the upcoming demise of Twapperkeeper. It seems mad how quickly different Twitter ‘catchers’ vanish – witness the short-lived Google social (“thanks”, Google…
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“What we find in The Monastery, then, is classic religion which has integrated...”
– Thomas 2011: 564
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Lyn Thomas: 'Changing old Habits' →
I met Lyn a couple of years ago at one of the various religion/media conferences. She’s been working for a while on The Monastery, which obviously has some crossover with my own research on religion in factual TV of the 2000s, so I’m looking forward to reading her article.
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Hot tub time machine →
Daithí Mac Síthigh shares his experiences at the Levenson Inquiry
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A timely reminder to get around to some old... →
My friend Jennifer has reminded me to try and sift through some archive Twitter data I was saving for a rainy day…
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My friend Farida Vis talking about the Reading the... →
November 2011
14 posts
Viva la viva →
I had my PhD viva yesterday, which is an oral examination in the form of the hardest ever interview you’ve had in your life. Seriously, I NEVER want to go through that again, although I suspect I…
That's Dr to you.
Well, subject to minor mods anyway…
Move it and a groove-it →
Cliff Richard might not be the obvious name that comes to mind when you’re thinking about new media research, but I’m currently working on a project with lots of lovely Cliff fans and I’m…
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“‘Yea, there will be a TOURISM II released in March 2012. It’s a...”
RT @HayleyToothill: Oh dear Cornetto - that was a bit insensitive wasn’t it? http://t.co/UGNguBzG
Pesto & rosemary foccaccia and white choc and mint cheesecake. Died and gone to heaven courtesy of @fusion_baker @fusionorganic @sweetkomal
SHULife →
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“4chan’s popularity and persistence is even more remarkable when contextualized....”
– Lee Knutilla
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User unknown: 4chan, anonymity and contingency →
I’m starting to read up on 4chan, Tumblr and other places, and intend to virtually scrapbook some of the articles I read here. So this is the first one!
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In early 2009, when Tumblr was taking off, I set one up. I didn’t really ‘get’ it and so it just became an import place where blog posts and tweets came to die.
But now I’m in academia and I teach, write and research new media and social media, and Tumblr’s become a bit of a ‘thing’ lately, yet I feel I know so little about it. So here I am, back, and...