How the World Changed Social Media is the first book in Why We Post, a book series that
investigates the findings of nine anthropologists who each spent 15 months living in …

The popular photo-sharing app Instagram has created a new breed of celebrities: the
Instafamous. This essay examines the phenomenon—from Singaporean socialites showing …

Selfies are suddenly ubiquitous. In declaring selfie Oxford Dictionaries' 2013 Word of the
Year, Editorial Director Judy Pearsall explained that their big data analyses of English words …

A selfie, whatever else it might be, is usually a photograph: a pictorial image produced by a
camera. This banal observation informs widespread understandings of the selfie as a …

Sharing is central to how we live today: it is what we do online; it is a model of economic
behaviour; and it is also a type of therapeutic talk. Sharing embodies positive values such as …

This article explores the relationality between women's bodies and selfies on NSFW (Not
Safe For Work) tumblr blogs. We consider the way selfie practices engage with normative …

Writing a book about social media is about as hard as it can get. Once the platform practices
have been documented and analysed, they have already passed their hashtagged used-by …

This book offers a unique model for understanding the cognitive underpinnings, interactions
and discursive effects of our evolving use of smartphones in everyday app-mediated …

Heritage and Social Media explores how social media reframes our understanding and
experience of heritage. Through the idea of 'participatory culture'the book begins to examine …

To date, there has been much quantitative research conducted on sexting, often with a focus
on investigating its prevalence among young people and which also typically presents the …