About this blog
The Global Social Media Impact Study consists of nine anthropologists who spent 15 months conducting long-term ethnographic fieldwork on how social media is affecting the lives of ordinary people fieldsites around the world.
This blog exists for our researchers to share some of the exciting experiences of anthropological research with a wider audience.
Although the full results of our research will not be published until 2016, the blog is also a place where our researchers will discuss some of their tentative findings. This seems especially appropriate given the fast-changing nature of social media, and we welcome readers to join in discussing these ideas by commenting on the blog articles.
In order to protect the anonymity of our research participants, many of the local place names and names of participants given in articles in this blog have been altered.
Individual blog posts represent the views of their authors, and not necessarily the project or UCL as a whole.