Author: timhighfield
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Instagram: Visual social media cultures (Ideas Alive 2020)
Transcript of talk for Ideas Alive, Off The Shelf Festival 2020 There are over one billion Instagram users worldwide, using what started as a basic photo-sharing app to visually showcase lives, businesses, events, and causes. In doing so, Instagram and other apps have become part of the everyday life of many – and in this…
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Examining Instagram Time (#ica20)
Details Short video on ‘Examining Instagram Time: Aesthetics and experiences’ for ‘Approaching Instagram’ roundtable at the International Communication Association 2020 conference; originally to be held in Gold Coast, Australia, held virtually in May 2020 due to COVID-19. Full roundtable videos and summaries available via Tama Leaver! Transcript Hello there, I’m Tim Highfield from the University…
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“I’m singing with my laptop, making up new songs” (The Web That Was, June 2019)
I presented a more exploratory type of paper than usual at the excellent The Web That Was conference in Amsterdam (19-21 June 2019), taking the opportunity to delve into a side-project that had been in the back of my mind for a long time and which had taken on nostalgic relevance at the start of…
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The everyday politics of social media (Palace of Westminster, March 2019)
On 5 March 2019, I was invited to speak at the Palace of Westminster in London at the ‘Social media and politics: spreading fake news or strengthening democracy?‘ event organised by PoliMonitor. The following is the script for my remarks, an update of sorts to the argument I put forward in Social Media and Everyday…