‘Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response’ is a term that’s emerged from online health communities to describe a ‘tingling’ sensation certain people seem to experience in response to particular sensory stimuli and audiovisual cues. In recent years numerous ‘ASMRtists’ have begun using platforms like YouTube to circulate roleplays, readings and performances all
Podcast: An Archive of Tingles: ASMR Culture and Online Identity
Tags: ASMR, podcast, social media, YouTube
Public Roundtable: Voices and Ethics Part Three with Craig Howes
In the final paper from our Voices and Ethics panel, Professor Craig Howes (Centre for Biographical Research, University of Hawai’i) argues that digital technologies are bringing into being new biographical forms that demand critical attention – from Facebook ‘Year in Review’ slideshows to military drone operators’ ‘kill lists.’
Tags: craig howes, data, drones, necrobiography, politics, simulation, social media, talks, video
Public Roundtable: Identities Online with Leigh Gilmore, Julie Rak & Sidonie Smith
The first of Ego-Media’s September 2015 public roundtable panels saw three fascinating papers on the theme of online identity from members of the project’s international network, encompassing online activism, networked gaming and the fate of humanities scholarship in the digital era. ‘Social Media as/and Witness: The Case of Black Lives Matter’ Leigh
Tags: activism, automedia, black lives matter, posthumanities, research, social media, video, videogames, witness
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
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