[Delayed posting but better late than never!] It’s difficult to believe that four months have already passed since I started my new position in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University. It’s been a whirlwind semester and it seems like just yesterday that I was putting final touches on syllabi. As much as IContinue reading “Highlights of the Semester – Winter 2018”
Category Archives: Academia
When it’s sunny, it’s heaps sunny!
Had to refresh my memory about Ellen’s style over the years. Hello from the depths of 3rd year PhD land! This week has been an exciting foray into the past 20 years of lesbian media representation, from k.d. lang to Ellen through to The L Word and contemporary coverage of Kristen Stewart’s ‘gal pals’. It’s noContinue reading “When it’s sunny, it’s heaps sunny!”
Me, myself, and my selfie: Ways of understanding selfies (SMSociety15 Workshop)
I just wanted to take a moment to reflect on the selfies workshop that I had the honour to be a part of yesterday at the Social Media & Society 2015 conference. We had a great turn out for a session we called “Selfies: Inter-faces and ‘me’-diated bodies”,Continue reading “Me, myself, and my selfie: Ways of understanding selfies (SMSociety15 Workshop)”
Beginnings of a PhD project: Coming out and social media
(Image courtesy of the Degrassi Wiki) Let’s travel back to a formative time when I used to come home after school every day and watch reruns of the original Degrassi Junior High – a Canadian-made TV drama about tough teen issues. An episode* halfway through season three stands out: one of the main characters, Snake (theyContinue reading “Beginnings of a PhD project: Coming out and social media”
Social Media & Society 2013: Five ingredients for an amazing conference
Now that I’ve got your attention, just a quick shameless plug that I’ve updated all the pages under the Research tab with the findings of studies I conducted this past year. Have a read about Facebook’s perilous governance practices, what people think their Likes indicate about them, and how LGBTQ young people deal with contextContinue reading “Social Media & Society 2013: Five ingredients for an amazing conference”
Academic elevator speech
“elevator” by whatatravisty on Flickr In evangelist circles, they always say you should have your ‘elevator speech’ ready to go. It’s a 30 second spiel designed to change minds and drive your message home in the time it takes to ride an elevator with a stranger. In (social science) academic writing, the abstract is akinContinue reading “Academic elevator speech”
Using digital technologies to research children in time
This is a presentation I gave last week – developed entirely just based on the prescribed title topic. Feel free to skim any of it (with correct attributions) if it applies to your work! Using Digital Technologies to Research Children in Time from Stefanie Duguay WHY use digital technologies to research children in time? Continue reading “Using digital technologies to research children in time”
Queer, Feminist and Social Media Praxis workshop: A diversity of perspectives
This past year, I’ve had trouble referring to my program as ‘Internet studies’ even though it provides a quick alternative to the mouthful that is Social Science of the Internet. Sure, we had to learn about Internet architecture, the actual tubes and wires connecting everything, but really we study people, politics, economics, networks, and interactions onContinue reading “Queer, Feminist and Social Media Praxis workshop: A diversity of perspectives”
Not ready to throw in the towel yet: Thoughts on Big Data, digital social research, and academia
(Not the future, merely the Gladstone Link) Full disclosure: This was written for a ‘position paper’ assignment in my Digital Social Research course at the OII. The article by Savage and Burrows (2007) plays on an insecurity that haunts me every time I pay my tuition: what ensures that social researchers have valuable, employable skills?Continue reading “Not ready to throw in the towel yet: Thoughts on Big Data, digital social research, and academia”
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