Welcome!
Such is the nature of having a personal website that as you are reading this much of the content will be going out of date! But stick around it does provide a good snapshot of who I am 'now'.
At present I am in the final stages of writing up my Doctorate funded by the Economic Social Research Council (ESRC) in the UK based at The University of York. My main interest is in digital social media or rather the new ‘new’ media of that latest buzz-phrase ‘Web 2.0’.
Basically if its techie, gadgetry and geeky I’m there!
You can classify me as a social analyst who is at the forefront of what is emerging as a newly digitally connected culture. A culture I have chosen to frame as the 'pivotality' of new media in social lives.
Pivotality?
By this I mean the pervasive and collective social presence that serve as extensions for social interaction and the cultural expression of being ‘in touch’. These are recognised as informal and ‘expected’ social surveillance that create new opportunities and have implications for social action(s).
Rituals and etiquette
These inform the new kinds of social connections that demand a reflexive, highly immersed and dynamic social presence.
Right now I am analysing the ways that Generation-i are encouraged to profile themselves across an array of new media social platforms, applications and appendages...
When not theorising, analysing or jumping on the band-wagon of the next big thing I write for numerous blogs and contribute to other new media channels (see links in left hand bar).
