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New Facebook Research Project

As I sit and wait for my committee to work their way through my dissertation, I have embarked on a new research project with Dr. Mia Consalvo and Irene Serrano Vazquez. We have two projects in the works at the moment, one looking at how and why people play Facebook games with family, and the otherContinue reading “New Facebook Research Project”

Titles

Coming up with a title for my dissertation seems to be harder than when I named my children. How wrong is that!? =)

A New Year: Endings & Beginnings

I started this blog during my undergrad. It started out as a place that I could ramble on about the stuff I was reading, mixed with random thoughts and sometimes incoherent babble. I have tried making this a group blog for a while, enabling friends (who blogged at the time) to blog here in anContinue reading “A New Year: Endings & Beginnings”

Still Here

But sprinting to the finish line of my dissertation (if you can call a March 1 deposit a sprint). The world and words have been muddy – life trudges on, bringing with it its trials and tribulations that attempt to derail you from your master plan. I hope to make it to the end (whichContinue reading “Still Here”

Speed of Technological Change: Rant v. 2.3

As mentioned in my last post (or two), I have been feeling quite overwhelmed with the speed that technology has been developing. Well. To be fair, I have no problems with the speed of development, just the speed of expected upgrading on behalf of the consumer. This goes for pretty all consumer products – notContinue reading “Speed of Technological Change: Rant v. 2.3”

Tech Confession

My name is Kelly and I’m a PC…. yes. I know … it seems that this is cause for shame in the world. I am surrounded by mac advocates, and they just can’t understand why I use a PC, constantly informing me of all its shortcomings and how much better my (tech) life would beContinue reading “Tech Confession”

What Did I Just Say?

I know age is relative, but lately I have been finding myself saying things that I never thought I would say… Every time I watch MuchMusic’s top 20 videos with my daughters, I inevitably say “back in my day” … never fail. I find myself telling them that “back when I was young” the videosContinue reading “What Did I Just Say?”

Making Creepy Cool

I guess it is inevitable considering our culture’s fascination with horror, zombies, and all things creepy that Mattel would come out with something like this. How far we’ve come since I was a kid when my choice of dolls was between Barbie or Jordache …

More Networks, Less Connection

Over the last decade and a half, my digital connections have been a big part of my life. From giving me a sense of community and family when I was young and away from home, to enabling me to fight dragons with people all across the world. I hate to sound nostalgic, but I cannotContinue reading “More Networks, Less Connection”

Online Sociability: Yahoo! Chat to Facebook

Sitting in my living room last night with the television off (a rare occurrence for me, who usually needs background noise..) and I started thinking about my time online over the years. While I was a stay at home mom, I started chatting in 1994 in the Yahoo chat rooms. Sorted by topic, the rooms were filledContinue reading “Online Sociability: Yahoo! Chat to Facebook”