Remade in Sheffield: The Legacy of an Industrial Past in the City’s Names and...
For my third participant observation exercise, I decided to photograph the places I could think of in Sheffield that referenced the city’s industrial past. The reason for this was that one of my case...
View ArticleProduction, Provenance, Identity: ‘Made in Sheffield’ as a Cultural Trope
My last blog post looked at the various building names, businesses and artworks that have been inspired by Sheffield’s industrial heritage. In this post, I want to consider one specific aspect of this...
View ArticleMaking Places: Multiple Ways of Defining a City
In my last few blog posts, I have described the ways in which I have begun to look at the connection between photography and a sense of place. Specifically, I wanted to explore how certain kinds of...
View ArticleCity Walks and the Formation of Place
When it comes to walking around a city, there is plenty of advice to be found. Although I’d expect there to be guides for walkers in the countryside, it came as a surprise to see the different types of...
View ArticleInformation for potential interviewees – Pictures of Sheffield Old and New
Thanks for your interest in this University of Sheffield project, which is part of the Visual Social Media Lab’s Imaging Sheffield study. Further details about the lab can be found on our website, at:...
View Article‘Why We Post’ Workshop at UCL
‘Why We Post’ is a research project at UCL that brings together a number of international researchers in order to study the interrelationship between social media and daily life. This research has also...
View ArticleCows on Twitter: Location Specific Narratives Enacted Through Visual Social...
This blog post is the first of three that details the main findings from Imaging Sheffield — an ethnographic study that formed part of the Picturing the Social project at the Visual Social Media Lab....
View Article“Here I am… this is my experience”: Instagram and the depiction of campus life
This blog post is the second of three that details the main findings from Imaging Sheffield — an ethnographic study that formed part of the Picturing the Social project at the Visual Social Media Lab....
View Article“They like to see what they can’t see”: Image sharing on Facebook as a social...
This blog post is the third of three that details the main findings from Imaging Sheffield — an ethnographic study that formed part of the Picturing the Social project at the Visual Social Media Lab....
View ArticleWhat can the selfie do?: The “Self – Image – Public” Seminar
The “Self – Image – Public” seminar was held in Oslo on the 1st and 2nd of October, and featured two members of the Visual Social Media Lab – myself, and the seminar’s organiser, Lin Prøitz. The theme...
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