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Research

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Keywords

CV

Digital Media & Well-being

Teletherapy/Telehealth

Mental health & media technology

Media mindfulness

Media in Everyday Life

Digital media in daily life Internet memes

Community

Symbolic Interaction

Daily Life

Interaction rituals

Meaning making

Experiences

Semiotics

'Big Ideas' in my research

Culture

Time/Temporality

Reality

Self

Media

Media Effects

Watch my presentation from Georgetown's 2022 Technology & Society Week Grand Rounds on  what internet memes can tell us about how people experienced time in 2020?

Methods section

Ethnography is the empathetic observation of human behavior to understand the social world outside the reach of quantitative analysis. 

  • I began my training as an ethnography through a course with criminological ethnographer Jeff Ferrell, Ph.D. We learned about the ethnographic gaze and how to pay attention to the "residues of interaction" around us. 

  • As a graduate student, I published two peer-reviewed digital ethnographies on how the experience of living in time is complicated by digital communication technologies. 

  • I am currently designing an exhibition of street photos to tell stories from the COVID-19 pandemic and train my ethnographic eye. (View gallery.)

Ethnography

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