My predilection or shall we say my compulsion to shatter utopic mirrors has prompted and shaped many of my research projects.“Choose Your Own Ethnography: In Search of (Un)Mediated Life”
Lately, I’ve been obsessed with trying to make sense of how networked publics are incorporated into the lives of American teenagers. To get at this question, I embarked on a two year ethnographic study of how American youth are using social technologies as a part of their practices of everyday life. The easy way to say this is that I’ve been studying MySpace.