As an anthropologist and social media professional, my research focuses on human interaction with social networking sites, specifically how individuals engage with social media and how people are living their lives online. Drawing from a professional background in PR and social media and my training as an anthropologist, I apply social theories and ethnographic methods to the ever-changing landscape of cyberspace. I collaborate with researchers across a variety of disciplines to examine how the internet is affecting the world. I am particularly interested in e-democracy, activism through social media, the parallel public sphere, and how oppressed groups utilize cyberspace.
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La Vida Online: The Parallel Public Sphere of Facebook as Used by Colombian Immigrant Women in Atlanta, Anthropology Theses (2011)
This thesis examines how Colombian women within the city of Atlanta utilize Facebook as a...