I had a friend who once said in her status message that Mark Zuckerberg could turn our lives upside down in an instant- he just needs to shut Facebook down. The same can be applied to Twitter, Orkut and a million other ways that we network online today.
Social Media, or Social Networking as we all know it better- is very obviously becoming second nature to all of us. This of course is preceded by the fact that Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have grown by leaps and bounds- something that doesn't necessarily require stating.
Having said so, I intend to, in my PhD thesis, explore all of these areas. The past 7-8 years have been bewildering for many of us out there for suddenly, we went from that sole school/college re-union a year, being connected with every possible person you vaguely remembered hanging out with in school, almost 24/7-Online!
All of this has opened up for me a whole new curios world as a researcher- and the journey has only begun.
It has taken me into a whole world where human meets machine and maybe human is machine/machine is human!
I hope this becomes a space where I can chart my engagement with this world- rather OUR (Brave?) new world!
Cheers!
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