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The ad that changed my life

September 13, 2015 by friending internet culture internet friendship internet history internet research internets personal
x-files delphi ad wired

This is ad for Delphi Internet’s X-Files Online changed my life. When I was 13, I was completely enthralled with the X-Files. Since this was still pre-internet time for most of us, the only way to get information about the show was through magazines. So, on the way home from school, I’d stop at the […]

Ethnography, ideology & internet research

December 12, 2010 by academic ethnography facebook internet research methodology privacy thesis

[This is another brain dump of a core piece of my PhD research on Facebook and privacy. Huge thanks to Phil Moore, one of my advisors and an ethnographic guru, for helping me think this all out and make the connections.] While it may seem that they are one and the same, there is an important distinction […]