Thomas Hillman

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Feb 25, 2015

Password protecting videos for distribution to participants

Until relatively recently Digital Rights Management (DRM) was a bit of a dirty term for me. If I had any interaction with a media file that had been locked with DRM so that it could only be used for a set period or on a…

Quick & dirty social media scrapping

In my work to examine social media use, particularly social photography, I have been faced with the challenge of collecting and managing data from social networks. Very often, accessing a social network through its official web, desktop or mobile apps fails to…

Drowning in forum posts

My training as a social scientist has focused on ethnographic methods and the use of detailed video ethnography has been the cornerstone of my research practice. But, like many social scientists in the last few years, my attention has turned more and more to online interactions between…