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This is not a user study
Photo: Frederick Dennstedt (Creative Commons) Our project is about social networking. We all agree on that. It’s also about contributing to social sciences. We also agree on that. So far, every...
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A comparative research about social networking sites! Wow! I am really excited. The portrait of the researcher, the lone adventurer, travelling alone in far-away countries is probably part of the...
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Algorithms and homogenization
The general goal of our project is to investigate on the social effects of Facebook in seven different countries. We want to understand how Facebook, as a global phenomenon, is locally appropriated...
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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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A methodological case of comparative anthropology
Image Courtesy Quinn Dombrowski (Creative Commons) I hear from colleagues in our department that completing a PhD can often be a solitary experience. Anthropologists tend to accept the fact that social...
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