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August 2023
This month’s Frame: remixing meaning—multimodality as a lens for understanding online expression
A framework for re-conceptualising communication and expression in digital spaces—seeing people as “designers” of modal ensembles. TikTok continues to…
July 2023
This month's Frame: does it matter if Twitter is “cool”? W. David Marx on big tech as a cultural signifier
A framework that explains what makes platform usage desirable, besides the features. In late 2022 Elon Musk announced Twitter would offer “verification…
June 2023
This month’s Frame: Authenticity that lasts, how heterotopias can help us build better digital environments
A framework that moves beyond building for a one-size-fits all notion of authenticity, to show how platforms can provide the tools for users to create…
May 2023
This month's Frame: Why people are losing control over technology and what product teams can do about it
A framework for rethinking the relationship between people and digital tools. The last decade has brought a steady wave of commercial applications of…
April 2023
March 2023
This month's Frame: designing virtual “taskscapes” to build a better Metaverse
A framework that can help create a virtual world that people want to live in. The Metaverse—ie. a highly immersive, highly-connected virtual…
February 2023
This month’s Frame: Using Actor Network Theory to rethink work in the age of generative AI
A framework that helps team leaders understand the possibilities of working with AI by challenging the distinction between people and tools. ChatGPT was…
January 2023
This month's Frame: How Goffman helps us to understand the rise of hybrid social selves
A framework for understanding how social apps enable users to blur the lines between IRL and virtual performances of the self. Just over a year ago the…
December 2022
This month's Frame: How Stuart Hall's identities framework can help understand the rise of Discord and Telegram
A framework for understanding the benefits and limitations of different digital identity models. The one question Elon Musk wanted answered before…
November 2022
This month's Frame: Dall-E, Jacques Ellul and Technique as Self-Service
A framework for understanding why the best known methods are now accessible to the average user
October 2022
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