The third thematic discussion session of our international network meeting addressed the role of habit and repetition in online culture. Beginning by addressing ‘e-health’ and the quantified self, the discussion moved to the methodological challenges facing humanities scholars as they develop research methods attuned to online practices, cultures
Routine Quantification: Habit, Affect and Health
Tags: affect, epilepsy, habit, health, medical humanities, medicine, quantification, quantified self, routine
Time and Space Online: Liveness, Authenticity, Locality
The second of our international network meeting’s thematic discussion sessions tackled the question of how we understand the relationship between online and offline – and whether, indeed, this distinction still makes sense. It also asked whether the ways in which digital media encourage us to understand time and space
Tags: archives, digital media, ethnicity, gender, identity, language, space, time
The Politics of Digital Life
In September 2015 King’s College London hosted a meeting of Ego-Media’s international network, bringing together academics from around the world who share our interest in how digital media are reshaping understandings of identity and modes of representing the self. The meeting was punctuated by a series of thematic discussions
Tags: agency, archives, data, identity, museums, politics, prosthetics, surveillance
Who Does the Internet Think You Are?
A few weeks ago London’s Science Museum hosted an evening of talks, workshops and performances on the theme of computing, and the Ego-Media team were there using the defiantly analogue format of the post-it note to ask visitors some questions about online identity. Getting people to stick sheets of fluorescent
Tags: data, digital, internet, memory, privacy, social media
Chatbots Talk: Science Museum Late, 28 Oct 2015
I’m giving at talk at the Science Museum Late on October 28th. Come learn about Chatbots and Margaret Masterman! Chattering Bots and Computer Poetry: Margaret Masterman and Computer Talk since 1955 Fifty years before Google Translate appeared on the market, a pioneering linguist was trumpeting the possibilities of Machine Translation.
Radio Research: An Archive of Tingles
An Archive of Tingles, the radio programme I produced in partnership with Resonance FM and the Arts and Culture Unit, is now available to listen to on Mixcloud and SoundCloud. In it I explore YouTube’s ‘ASMR’ culture, in which users make and exchange ‘whisper videos’ intended to induce what they
Tags: ASMR, podcast, Resonance FM, voice, YouTube
Black Boxed Selves
In June Rob and I went to the annual Digital Humanities (DH) conference, held this year in Sydney. Not only did we have some fascinating discussions with people from around the globe at the DH New Scholars Seminar – on which more to follow – but along with Tom Apperley
Tags: galloway; black box; identity; digital; self
Epilepsy Online: Interviews Commence
Over the last few weeks I have been travelling the country interviewing volunteers about their social media usage. At the moment I am talking to people who have epilepsy, a condition that affects around 1 in 100 people in the UK. The research is being undertaken in partnership with neurologist
Tags: epilepsy, interviews, social media