This blogpost focuses on the methodological challenges of studying the dynamics of technologically and computationally mediated publics, especially regarding young people’s experiences.
Given the ubiquity of networked visuals, and their importance in constructing identities, social entities (i.e. families); attributing meaning or value to different categories or phenomena (i.e. what is beautiful, feminine) – it is important we understand how visual social media is made sense of by users. How do young people make sense of their own practices on and with visual social media apps like Snapchat and Instagram?
The first “All the Feels” project takes a discourse analysis approach to explore the interpretative repertoires that youth invoke when they talk about their own social media use.
Individual interdisciplinarity is indeed exciting, interesting and useful. But a single thinker can’t contain the knowledge from different disciplines and synthesise it with new approaches to social problems. We need collective interdisciplinarity.
