Whilst at UCL I took a really interesting course, The Anthropology of Social Media: Digital Media and the Islamic World, taught by Dr Shireen Walton. In this course we discussed and explored how Anthropology, as a subject, is being affected by Social Media. Traditionally the Anthropologist would 'go out' or 'go native' in order to immerse themselves and gain an insight into the workings of a particular group, now, in the digital age of Social Media, people are liberally and literally spilling all online.
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In January last year, on a Friday afternoon, my friend Angela called me to ask if I could help her shoot some sea scenes off the South Coast of England for her upcoming film. She bought our tickets, jumped on a train and in two hours the train stopped at our destination. We hopped off and left the train platform to find ourselves in the middle of nowhere.
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