by saraskogsberg, Bo Bi and Qi H. We are now at our final step in the process of developing our service, and the time has come to do a user test by the intended target group. In this report we will introduce the reader to how we gathered our empirical data, we will also highlight the methods and the…
In recent years, optimistic discourses about the possibilities of using social media for civic engagement and political action have been very popular, especially after the Arab Spring, in which Twitter is widely believed to have played an important role. Many scholars tend to praise social media for “they can be empowering and politically transformative” [1].…
by saraskogsberg, Bo Bi and Qi H. Now it’s time to see what we have achieved after a month’s work on our app “Let’s Shop!”. Due to the practical reason that we do not have a programmer, we are not able to implement an up and running service. But, we can proudly say that we have tried our best…
“Every time you say ‘no thanks’ to food, you say ‘yes please’ to thin.” This is a saying that appears on various eating disorders (E.D.s) sites. An ‘anorexic lifestyle’ has gained certain popularity among many young women particularly in the Western world. Various E.D.s sites are created primarily by young women who have anorexia or bulimia, or…
The new wave of journalism: the world in a tweet “I saw on Facebook/Twitter/Weibo…” is a term frequently heard in conversations nowadays. Social media platforms, which were originally developed as tools for social interaction, have become a vital source of information. Especially when a major event such as an earthquake happens, the first reports come…
It is somewhat embarrassing for me, a master student who studies digital media, to admit that I have never used WordPress or any other blogging service before. If I write something, I tend to keep it in my journal rather than on the web. But since we are required to publish our blogs in this…
Who am I? You may wonder. Actually that is a question I constantly ask myself. And the answer is not always the same, not only because self-identity is changing over time. In the digital age, identity is constantly re-defined and influenced by social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. What I can say for sure is…
Understanding Social Media 