Michael saker
@Michael_Saker
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Senior Lecturer @ City, University of London. Co-author of Location-Based Social Networking https://t.co/V08wP8aALU All my own views.
Joined March 2012
Participants needed in research exploring the fear @CityUniLondon students who identify as female experience in their lives around campus. £20 voucher for all participants who complete the project. For more information DM me or read https://t.co/Er4nlzfatJ
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🚶♀️🏙️ Fear of crime and urban mobility – a closer look on the phenomenon of “wayfearing”. Explore the experiences of women students at a city-based university using locative apps in @Michael_Saker, @DanMercea, & @DrCazzMyers new study. 👉 https://t.co/bxD9txxRGz
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👉 New #Research presented at #CHI2023. Led by @yihong55681731, with @Michael_Saker, @v_j_khan & crew! https://t.co/uZAR31QjU9
#CHI #CHI23 #HCI #CSCW @TheOfficialMRL @UoNComputerSci @eusset @sigchi @acm_chi @sigchi_chapters #retweet
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A new #VR book by edited by @jhfrith and @Michael_Saker is now availabe to pre-order! I have a chapter in this with @leightonevans on spatiality of VR live performances and I'm more than happy about it 😃
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The changing face of VR: Pushing the boundaries of experience across multiple industries (Sociology)
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📕 UPCOMING RELEASE 📕 'The changing face of VR: Pushing the boundaries of experience across multiple industries' is a crucial, eye-opening volume which both examines VR practices and theorizes new uses of VR. Read more here: https://t.co/zpVocBRg7s
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In our latest issue - @Michael_Saker & @DanMercea draw on joint-media engagement & social learning literature to explore how parents play Pokémon Go with their children, a mixed methods study providing a novel perspective on locative media scholarship:
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Pokémon Go is a hybrid reality game (HRG) that research suggests is played by families in the context of joint-media engagement. Yet, the game interface itself ...
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Our paper with @DanMercea and @Michael_Saker "Protesting the lockdown: Locating the movement publicly opposing health restrictions on Facebook" got accepted for #ICA2022 🥳 We analyze the transnational connections, framing and identity work strategies of the movement on Facebook.
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New #Research - "Locating Identities in Time: An examination of the Formation and Impact of Temporality on Presentations of the Self, through Location-based Social Networks" has been accepted by the #ACM Transactions on Social Computing #interdisciplinary #international #HCI 🌐
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New Digital Sociology Podcast with @ScottTimcke on algorithms, politics, capitalism & racism #digitalsociology #podcast #sociology
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In this episode I spoke to Scott Timcke who is a comparative historical sociologist, with an interest in race, class, and technology in modernity. He is a research associate with the University of …
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Digital Sociology Podcast is back! Feat the excellent @UoG_MarkWong on Hidden Youth & Online Lives in #Scotland and #HongKong #podcast #digitalsociology #sociology Sorry for a long delay hope it was worth the wait!
thisisnotasociology.blog
There has been a huge gap since the last episode as life, work and then Covid got in the way. I will be putting out a few episodes over the next few weeks which have all been recorded recently with…
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Sony announces new virtual reality headset for PlayStation 5
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My excellent student Ellie is looking for participants for her dissertation project on the impact of online learning platforms on teaching/HE. If you can spare 1/2 hour for a chat it'd be a huge help. Get in touch with Ellie or me for info e.fawcett4922@student.leedsbeckett.ac.uk
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New book with @leightonevans out today. Intergenerational Locative Play: Augmenting Family.
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This interesting book, co-authored by the Department's Dr @Michael_Saker and publishing on Monday, looks at the social, spatial and physical impact of the hybrid reality game Pokémon Go on the relationship between parents and their children. https://t.co/VMiKz6fbil
#PokemonGO
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