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Further resources on these issues
Costa, E. (2018). Affordances-in-practice: An ethnographic critique of social media logic and context collapse. New Media & Society, 20(10), 3641–3656. Available here.
Working from home and conference calling tips from The Guardian.
Shaming, how one tweet can ruin your life. Jon Ronson Ted Talk.
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With millions of articles telling you the 'right way' to work from home, is the conclusion that there is no right way? Should we step away from these debates or laugh with the people getting it 'wrong'?
It feels like there are 5 million articles telling you the 'right way' to work from home right now. The obvious conclusion from this is that there is no 'right' way to work from home. So let's step away from what are sometimes extensive online debates about appropriate attire or appearance of children or pets in online conference calls.
Perhaps now is the time to enjoy a bit of unplanned 'over sharing' and collectively share a giggle at teenagers eating out the fridge, children dancing behind their mother, 'Jennifer' using the bathroom, or partners-in-pants walking into walls.
But we might also consider when we need to hold back from uploading or sharing these momentary windows into other people's lives. Media studies scholars call it 'context collapse', where images and video made for one audience come to be viewed by a range of invisible audiences through the sharing affordances of social media platforms and journalists searching for content. Others argue we could learn from cultures who are more careful with their privacy settings. This is an open question: what do we share, how do we share, and how do we talk about what we share? Does sharing open up new possibilities - for better or for worse?
Author information: Andrea LaMarre is a lecturer at the School of Psychology, Massey University: I use qualitative and arts-based methods to approach issues from a critical health psychology lens. My research primarily focuses on eating disorders, body image, and embodiment, often through story. I have also conducted research at the intersection of weight stigma and reproductive health. Broadly, my work explores bodies in the world--what it means to be embodied and engage in food and exercise practices in a world that holds very specific dictates around what it means to "be healthy." I am also interested in lived experience/patient-driven care and co-design across mental health and for eating disorders in particular, in e-health technologies, and in social justice informed approaches to research, treatment, and advocacy in mental health.
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