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Reflection on fieldwork perks
Divali Diyas, photo by Jolynna Sinanan And so I have left the rest of the team to start fieldwork after 8 weeks of debating, arguing, listening, learning and laughing. One of the joys of doing...
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The age of the amateur?
Image courtesy of Chris Zielecki, Creative Commons Well into the thick of looking at what people post, there are the obvious recurrences of photos of family, friends, selfies or being seen somewhere,...
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Questions I get asked everyday…
Tom asking (or maybe being asked) lots of questions (Photo: Gillian Bolsover) For the past 14 months I’ve been living in this rural town in north China, conducting ethnographic research on how social...
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Cooking Soup Online and Being a Good Mother
Images of soup on Chinese social media In order to analyze people’s postings on QQ or WeChat I had to spend a lot of time viewing and recording my informants’ online postings, especially the photos and...
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