[MEDIA] Talking Shortform Text with @PetrieHosken on @BBCRadioLondon
It was a loooooong journey back from Suffolk yesterday, so I was still asleep when my phone rang at 9.15am (I’d missed the earlier text as my phone doesn’t give any notifications between 11pm and 9am), from BBC London, asking if I could respond to the story that David Attenborough says he doesn’t understand textspeak […]
[EVENT] What can social media tell us about society? by @NatCen at @TwitterUK #ESRCFestival
Social media data is of great value to researchers. What people say on platforms such as Twitter can tell us a great deal about society’s attitudes. It can also allow us to capture reactions to political events in the moment. However, since the Cambridge Analytica scandal – which involved data from millions of Facebook users […]
[EVENT] New Perspectives in the Digital Society @DigiCultureKCL
The blending of offline and online interaction has had many talk about a “digital society” within which human and nonhuman actors coexist, and social media become batttlefields for culture wars. The contours of this “digital society”, however, are still to be questioned. In this workshop we will discuss some of the most interesting, cutting-edge research […]
[MEDIA] Has social media really changed our outlook? 2017 in Review (#metoo) with @UCBNewsTeam
Triggered by one of the biggest stories of 2017, the #MeToo hashtag, tied in with the story of Harvey Weinstein’s negative behaviour within Hollywood circles, I had a chat with David Peek from the UCB News Team, shortly after Time Magazine picked ‘the silence breakers’ of the #MeToo hashtag as ‘Person of the Year’. So, here’s […]
[CANCER] Celebrating Clear Scans + @macmillancancer Digital Nurse #BreastCancer
Tomorrow is 6-weeks post-surgery, time that has gone both fast and slow… Last time I wrote I’d had the pathology returned, and had had scans as to whether the cancer had spread… and had succumbed to a wound infection. Apparently having bone and CT scans are pretty normal, but I hadn’t expected them, so that sounded […]
