Senior Lecturer @ City, University of London. Co-author of Location-Based Social Networking https://xitter.cf/t.co/V08wP8aALU All my own views.
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Participants needed in research exploring the fear @CityUniLondon students who identify as female experience in their lives around campus. £20 voucher for all participants who complete the project. For more information DM me or read cityuni-my.sharepoint.com/:w… @CityUniSU
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🚶♀️🏙️ Fear of crime and urban mobility – a closer look on the phenomenon of “wayfearing”.
Explore the experiences of women students at a city-based university using locative apps in @Michael_Saker, @DanMercea, & @DrCazzMyers new study.
👉doi.org/10.1177/205015792312…
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👉 New #Research presented at #CHI2023.
Led by @yihong55681731, with @Michael_Saker, @v_j_khan & crew!
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#CHI #CHI23 #HCI #CSCW @TheOfficialMRL @UoNComputerSci @eusset @sigchi @acm_chi @sigchi_chapters #retweet
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New #OpenAccess #Research to be presented at #CHI2023
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#Crowdsourcing #HCI #CSCW
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Now reading "From Microverse to Metaverse" by @leightonevans, @jhfrith and @Michael_Saker.
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A new #VR book by edited by @jhfrith and @Michael_Saker is now availabe to pre-order! I have a chapter in this with @leightonevans on spatiality of VR live performances and I'm more than happy about it 😃 amazon.com/changing-face-bou…
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📕 UPCOMING RELEASE 📕 'The changing face of VR: Pushing the boundaries of experience across multiple industries' is a crucial, eye-opening volume which both examines VR practices and theorizes new uses of VR. Read more here: vernonpress.com/book/1553
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In our latest issue - @Michael_Saker & @DanMercea draw on joint-media engagement & social learning literature to explore how parents play Pokémon Go with their children, a mixed methods study providing a novel perspective on locative media scholarship: journals.sagepub.com/doi/ful…
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Our paper with @DanMercea and @Michael_Saker "Protesting the lockdown: Locating the movement publicly opposing health restrictions on Facebook" got accepted for #ICA2022 🥳 We analyze the transnational connections, framing and identity work strategies of the movement on Facebook.
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New #Research -
"Locating Identities in Time: An examination of the Formation and Impact of Temporality on Presentations of the Self, through Location-based Social Networks" has been accepted by the #ACM Transactions on Social Computing
#interdisciplinary #international #HCI 🌐
ALT Social Media Research paper Locating Identities in Time: An examination of the Formation and Impact of Temporality on Presentations of the Self through Location-based Social Networks Published in ACM Transactions on Social Computing #Identity #Self #Research #Computer #Science #Sociology #HCI #CSCW
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New Digital Sociology Podcast with @ScottTimcke on algorithms, politics, capitalism & racism #digitalsociology #podcast #sociology thisisnotasociology.blog/202…
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Digital Sociology Podcast is back! Feat the excellent @UoG_MarkWong on Hidden Youth & Online Lives in #Scotland and #HongKong #podcast #digitalsociology #sociology Sorry for a long delay hope it was worth the wait! thisisnotasociology.blog/202…
Sony announces new virtual reality headset for PlayStation 5 theguardian.com/games/2021/f…
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My excellent student Ellie is looking for participants for her dissertation project on the impact of online learning platforms on teaching/HE. If you can spare 1/2 hour for a chat it'd be a huge help. Get in touch with Ellie or me for info [email protected]
New book with @leightonevans out today. Intergenerational Locative Play: Augmenting Family. books.emeraldinsight.com/pag…
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This interesting book, co-authored by the Department's Dr @Michael_Saker and publishing on Monday, looks at the social, spatial and physical impact of the hybrid reality game Pokémon Go on the relationship between parents and their children.
amazon.co.uk/Intergeneration… #PokemonGO