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Hive Transition from Steemit

Hello fellow Hive-r's? What's the phrase we're going to use over here? Really happy to see the community buck off Justin Sun and fork here, so decided to celebr...

Gamification of Media: On Interactive Literature and Fostering Deep Engagement

Like many people today, I woke up to many recommendations to check out the new Black Mirror release, Bandersnatch. After going through the piece and reaching a ...

Toward a Political Sociology of Blockchain - Thesis Defended!

So once again, I'm back with a short update and some outlines for my plans for this blog space. Firstly, I successfully defended my master's thesis titled Towar...

Absence and Updates

So it's been quite a while since I last posted anything here. Just wanted to give a super short update on what I've been doing and my plans for the next little ...

The Biggest Problem with Cryptocurrency is that it is Called Cryptocurrency

So Much Name-Calling As with any disruptive new tech, cryptocurrency is being met with more skepticism than adoption. It’s difficult to find any new report on c...

MetaMask Delisted from Chrome Web Store?

Important Update: MetaMask is back listed in the web store. Don't bother trusting me though, as some people tried to trick people into downloading a bad clone t...

Fomo3D: If You're Reading This It's Too Late (but not really) - The Gamified Crypto Pyramid

Fomo 3D You could be forgiven if you haven't heard of Fomo3D yet. I debated whether or not I should even write about it, but the whole thing triggers so many th...

Experimenting With Fancy Cat Breeding - My Newest Cryptokitties

Today I'm writing about one of my favourite whimsical dApps, cryptokitties. I find the project interesting for a number of different reasons, the biggest of whi...

Redefining Curation

Content discovery is arguably the defining aspect of any content platform. Newspapers rely on editors to shape the look and feel of each publication while socia...

💰🤑Steem Basic Income Giveaway!!!!!💰🤑

.jpg) Hi there welcome, Chronocrypto here or chrono for short. I would like to invite you to a giveaway with simple rules and every body wins. Let us being, fir...

Social Impacts of Interfaces and Locational Data

This is a piece I wrote for my sociology of new media class, SOCY 931. I don't actually have much to add to this one, but it broadly looks at topics of location...

What is the #1 change needed for Steem - Win $20+ upvote

What do you believe is the 1 change required for Steem to take it to the next level and break past $10? If we could make one change right now, regardless of the...

Bitcoin Use as Privacy Protests and Surveillance Resistance

This is a paper that I wrote for my surveillance studies class, Sociology 903, at the end of 2016. This was my first attempt to try to use an interdisciplinary ...

Anfa Rose - Come Clean

This is a cross-post from my music blog freshdrops. I came across Anfa Rose back in December, with his track I'm Good, which is also a heater if you haven't hea...

Decentralized Exchanges - Could SBD Benefit?

I attended a meetup hosted by Kingston Blockchainers on decentralized exchanges the other day. They hosted Connor Herman of Radar Relay, who spoke on the state ...

Update and Choon - The Crypto Spotify

In an attempt to force myself to write more both for my thesis and for this, I'm hoping to start posting regularly both here on steemit and on by blog freshdrop...

Putting Theory to Work: Policy Implications of Multiplicity

I'm back again with a bit of my more current work today. This was an assignment intended to be a critical review of Annemarie Mol's The Body Multiple (https://w...

The Sl/ac(k)tivism Divide – Potential for Social Change Using Social Media

I'm back again and publishing another paper from my undergrad, and also from 2013. With all of the recent news regarding Facebook data control, the US/Russia is...

Migrant 2.0 – How Web 2.0 Ideals and Social Media Use Have Shaped Contemporary Migration Flows

Today I'm publishing another old piece related to global social trends and significance of the expansion of web capabilities with the social web. This one was w...

Reading Techniques as a Result of Technological Advancement and a Shift in the Notion of Knowledge

This was a piece I wrote for a digital literature class back in early 2013. It is NOT PEER REVIEWED, and was simply an assignment that was submitted. I believe ...