We generally care of how we are perceived by the people around us. This perception can be influenced by many factors and its research goes back to various concepts in communication and behavioral studies. The digital age has brought different ways of communicating with another, and with it came different ways of how to present…
Hello, everyone, my name is Xinrui Lu. I come from China. I am a student at the master program “Social Sciences in Digital Media & Society” at Uppsala University. I received my bachelor degree in communication from University of China, which is one of the top universities in the communication and media field in China.…
If I say social media what does that make you think about? Does the Facebook account you checked on your smartphone first thing you did when you woke up this morning comes to your mind? The page that gave you the most important news of the day: what that annoying girl you never liked in…
Hello everybody! I’m Qi from Beijing, China. I’m a second year master student in HCI programme at Uppsala University. My bachelor major is in industrial design. Although product design was my key areas, I was more interested in interaction design. My bachelor degree project was a design of a social network website about home decoration.…
Hi, I’m Guo Yang, a second year HCI student. I have a background in Computer science. Social media, as a domain more inclined to social science, is completely fresh and intriguing for me. The rising market of social media has emerged for many years and is still developing at a fast pace. This is the reason…
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…
It is my turn, as my professor Annika Waern did before me, to welcome you in this public blog. The sole purpose of this blog is the reflection of our thoughts on the rising global phenomenon of social media and their various aspects. Before delving deeper into the analysis of this new world order and…
Welcome to my first post on Understanding Social Media! My name is Giulia and I am one of the authors of this blog. Playing around with internet and computers has always been a consistent component of my life, but for some reason it never poured into my academic path. So, after having gained some working…
Hello world, My name is Paulina Rajkowska but online I mostly identify as Milly. I am currently a second year student of a master program in Digital Media and Society at Uppsala University, Sweden. Originally, I come from Warsaw, Poland where I used to study sociology at Collegium Civitas. I’m really passionate about video games…
“Who am I?” …is the first question Sofie raises, when she starts diving into the history of philosophy in the famous book by Jostein Gaarder [1] and this is the same question I am asking myself now. Who am I ? My name is Sophie, which means wisdom in old greek and that is about…
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