Bumble: Online Dating With a Twist

Online dating can be a nightmare. One profile after another. This person hates cats. You have a…

Mail Order Brides and Sugar babies: Female Agency in Unconventional Relationships

The wonderful online community that is Youtube: Mean comments are welcome.

Is it true that love is in the eyes of the beholder?

Ethnography in the church! A pastoral practice in action!

For my final paper, I decided on going with a book review, rather than a research topic. The decision was personal for me and the reason may be laughable. Ever since I enrolled at UMBC, I can count on one hand the number of book…

Recipe Sharing: An Online Community Adapted from Your Mother’s Cookbook

Digital Space Reveals Commodification

I observed the Starbucks on Route 40 in Catonsville, to get a better understanding of how we…

The gamble that entails with trading card games

In the Yu-Gi-Oh! community, players vary in ages from 8 to even 70. What makes Yu-Gi-Oh! unique from most other hobbies is that the market for certain cards fluctuate based on overall performance shown at regional and national tournaments. A card…

Why billiards is still better as a physical sport, opposed to the virtual world

Out with the old in with the New: Non-Digital to Digital.

A familiar digital space: The Public Library

For this experiment I traveled to my local library, Enoch Pratt Free Library, located at 400 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, MD 21201. Here they have a computer labs available for their members.

With the invention of the internet, many communities were adopted by new media. This can be seen in online shopping. Similar to Constable’s piece on mail order brides, online…