I was looking back at older blogs and realised that I hadn't wrote anything reflective around this time of year - mainly out of fear of being a massive bloggin' cliche. What I've realised is that you can't avoid being reflective at the start of a new year - and ...
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Last Thursday, I dragged my pre-man-flu self down to London to visit Nesta's headquarters for Amplified 08 - a non-conference to bring together creatives, practitioners, academics - or indeed anyone that was interesting in social media - who had taken part in previous events ...
Week 8 into Semester one and my 6th week of teaching (ever) and I had my teaching assistant assessment from my boss (aka the course leader). It happened to coinside with one of my busiest weeks of presentations - 3 hours, 3 seperate seminars and 9 presentations between them. From ...
I think I am well over-due a blog entry. I've been spending the last few weeks sorting out a few things (and moving house, again!) and preparing myself for the looming January Ph.D. start date.
I got my Masters result a few weeks ago and if all goes to plan, I will be graduating ...
I've finally finished and submitted my MA dissertation (woo, yay!) recently started working as part of the Small Worlds project (which is associated with the University of Leicester) - AJ Cann launched the project yesterday - and I think his short seesmic video sums up the gist of the project ...
Hi, I'm Jay Jay. I'm a 24 yr old Scot, living in England and I am in my 1st year of a Ph.D at the University of Leicester. My main interests are social media software, the power of networks and the relationship between offline and online identity. Try following me on Twitter!(more)