About

I am doctoral researcher with the School of Creative Industries at the University of the West of Scotland (supervised by Professor Andy Miah). I returned to the University in October 2009 after graduating with distinction from a Masters in New Media and Society at the University of Leicester. My MA dissertation was on the construct of social media platforms and the user notions of sociality within them. My PhD looks to continue on similar themes – working on themes relating to Web 2.0, identity, mobile cultures and moving towards research into Olympic culture and new media.

I am a visiting lecturer at Birmingham City University, teaching classes in New Media, Media Theory and supervises web media and journalism dissertation students. I have conducted research into collecting, managing and analyzing social media outputs from formal events and is currently working on projects relating to social network analysis and subversion of social media within traditional institutions. In June 2009, I organised a one-day event on the Uses and Abuses of Social Media (at the University of Leicester), a paper-free seminar which brought together social media practice with theory.

More details of work experience and academic qualifications are available on LinkedIn – feel free to connect with me.

Location

Loughborough/Ayr

Disciplines

• Digital Humanities
• Journalism, Media, and Communication

Affiliation

University of the West of Scotland

Website

http://jennifr.net