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The Dark Side of Social Media

What does it mean for the academy if increasing numbers of academics become ensnared within the twittering machine? Many people have…

May 10, 2020

The Dark Side of Social Media

May 10, 2020

Mark Carrigan

Are we all digital scholars now?

It’s been less than a decade since Martin Weller published The Digital Scholar, a book which excited myself and many others in its promise…

May 10, 2020

Are we all digital scholars now?

May 10, 2020

Mark Carrigan

We Need To Talk About Zoom

There’s a peculiar kind of exhaustion which comes from spending an afternoon staring at Zoom. I’m mentally drained but I would be if I’d…

May 10, 2020

We Need To Talk About Zoom

May 10, 2020

Mark Carrigan

Digital Platforms and the Post-Pandemic University

In common with over a third of the world’s population, I have spent the last week confined to my home after British Prime Minister Boris…

May 10, 2020

Digital Platforms and the Post-Pandemic University

May 10, 2020

Mark Carrigan

Why I’ve deleted my Twitter account #exhaustionrebellion

I wrote two years ago about my desire to escape what Richard Seymour calls The Twittering Machine. It’s a term which Seymour used in a…

Nov 30, 2019

Nov 30, 2019

Mark Carrigan

How multimedia has changed social media and what it means for academics

Social media platforms are filled with multimedia. This hasn’t always been the case and many people have experienced it as a gradual…

Nov 19, 2019

How multimedia has changed social media and what it means for academics

Nov 19, 2019

Mark Carrigan

How to take a social media sabbatical as an academic

This is an extract from Social Media for Academics 2. I’m posting it to coincide with my own social media sabbatical.

Nov 18, 2019

How to take a social media sabbatical as an academic

Nov 18, 2019

Mark Carrigan

Social media, attention economies and the future of the university

This is an extract from Social Media for Academics 2. If you like it please consider buying the book!

Nov 12, 2019

Social media, attention economies and the future of the university

Nov 12, 2019

Mark Carrigan

What does it mean to take Twitter seriously?

What does it mean to take Twitter seriously as a form of intellectual production? This is the question I’ve been asking myself a lot in…

Jun 8, 2019

What does it mean to take Twitter seriously?

Jun 8, 2019

Mark Carrigan

Erving Goffman: the rag-and-bone man of Sociology

There’s a wonderful essay by the playwright Alan Bennet in the London Review of Books, written 35+ years ago, reflecting on his…

Nov 26, 2018

Erving Goffman: the rag-and-bone man of Sociology

Nov 26, 2018

Mark Carrigan

Mark Carrigan

Digital Sociologist at University of Cambridge. Researching Social Media and (Higher) Education. Notebook: www.markcarrigan.net

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