Earlier in the month, the new Sage journal Social Media & Society announced a special issue curated and written by Culture Digitally scholars. SMC's own Tarleton Gillespie edited and wrote the issue's Introduction along with Hector Postigo, and the two collaborators blogged about the special issue here, here, and here. A number of articles in this issue grapple with new ways of understanding the relationship between technology …
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Help us expand relationship-app study to NYC, Philadelphia, and beyond!
UPDATE: We're now in the process of expanding this study to include other relationship apps besides Couple, including: Avocado, Between, Duet, LoveByte, etc. If you use one or more of these apps, we'd love to connect! Since our earlier call for participants, I’ve been scouring the Boston area looking for people to interview who use the relationship-app, …
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What do we know about microsocial network apps? Not enough! Help!
Couple (previously Pair) is an innovative app designed to help couples stay in touch. It's one among an increasing number of microsocial platforms that cater to small groups rather than large networks. In the case of Couple, it's a social network of just two. While there is a ton of research on scalable social networking sites like …
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