Tag: Social Media

Social Media and the Death of Serendipity (or on experiencing the ‘pre-bump’ for the first time)

May 21, 2016

As I start to write this post I am sitting at a departure gate in Stockholm’s Arlanda airport waiting for the late night flight north to Umeå. I am on my way back from Moscow where, for the last few days, I have been taking part in a conference at the Higher School of Economics’ … More Social Media and the Death of Serendipity (or on experiencing the ‘pre-bump’ for the first time)

Buffing and Buffering: Street Art’s Accelerating Archaeologies

October 30, 2015

The digital recordings of the Graffiti Archaeologists! session from September’s EAA Glasgow conference have just been published and I thought I would re-post the recording of the paper I presented with a ‘virtual’ Lachland Macdowall here. This was the paper, entitled Buffing and Buffering: Street Art’s Accelerating Archaeologies, which  we presented using Instagram in an … More Buffing and Buffering: Street Art’s Accelerating Archaeologies

Instagram > Powerpoint? Some (mostly digital) reflections from #EAAGLA

September 7, 2015

I’ve just returned from a great few days in Glasgow for the annual conference of the European Association of Archaeologists (my thanks to all the organisers and participants!). It was my first archaeology conference in five years and it was great to note the continuing productive overlaps that the discipline, and in particular the sub-field … More Instagram > Powerpoint? Some (mostly digital) reflections from #EAAGLA