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BA Light

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Name:

BA Light

Email:

B.Light@salford.ac.uk

Department:

School of Health & Society

Homepage:

http://www.benlight.me

profile_image:

Biography

Expertise:

gender, sexuality, social media, digital media, digital methods, internet studies, science and technology studies, internet cultures, digital society

Job title:

Professor of Digital Society / Associate Dean Research

Biography:

Ben is Professor of Digital Society in the School of Health and Society at the University of Salford. His research is concerned with understanding people’s everyday experiences of digital media. Light engages science and technology studies bringing it into dialogue with questions of (non)consumption practices, digital methods, gender and sexuality. He is currently working in the areas of digitally mediated public sexual cultures and dating and hookup apps. He is author of Disconnecting with Social Networking Sites (Palgrave, 2014), and his latest book with Kylie Jarrett (Maynooth) and Susanna Paasonen (Turku), exploring the phenomenon of Not Safe For Work (NSFW) is due to be published in 2019 (MIT Press). His research has been published in journals such as Convergence, First Monday, Informore...

Qualifications:

BA (Hons) Consumer Studies MSc Information Management PhD Technology Appropriation

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1.	The walkthrough method : an approach to the study of apps	2314	9507
2.	'Connect and create’ : young people, YouTube and graffiti communities	2061	6
3.	Social networking and digital gaming media convergence : classification and its consequences for appropriation	1719	2214
4.	Facebook, YouTube, MySpace: can Web 2.0 social networking sites nudge the boardroom – the evolution of CRN 2.0 research agenda?	1617	1486
5.	A stage maturity model for enterprise resource planning systems use	1613	3
6.	Lesbian, gay and bisexual women in the north west: a multi-method study of cervical screening attitudes, experiences and uptake	1488	931
7.	Gay men, Gaydar and the commodification of difference	1333	2205
8.	More than just friends? Facebook, disclosive ethics and the morality of technology	1197	3549
9.	ERP and best of breed: a comparative analysis	1066	2
10.	The rise of speculative devices : hooking up with the bots of Ashley Madison	835	650

My Latest

Hinds, RS, Garwood-Cross, LJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4354-3350, Moore, K ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6048-222X, Hakim, J, Katz, RA ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3521-8291, Light, BA ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0038-8979, Mercer, J and Upton, M 2021, COVID sex lives : survey 3 report , Project Report, University of Salford, Salford.
Garwood-Cross, LJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4354-3350, Hakim, J, Hinds, RS, Katz, RA ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3521-8291, Light, BA ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0038-8979, Mercer, J, Moore, K ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6048-222X and Upton, M 2021, COVID sex lives : survey 2 report , Project Report, University of Salford, Salford.
Garwood-Cross, LJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4354-3350, Hakim, J, Hinds, RS, Katz, RA ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3521-8291, Light, BA ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0038-8979, Mercer, J, Moore, K ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6048-222X and Upton, M 2021, COVID sex lives : survey 1 report , Project Report, University of Salford, Salford.
McCarthy, R ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1842-9086, Choucri, LP, Jones, J, Butler, DE ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3673-7138, Chatwin, JR ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3091-9117, Brettle, AJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4120-1752 and Light, BA ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0038-8979 2020, Facemums 2018: final report , Project Report, University of Salford, Salford.
Paasonen, S, Jarrett, K and Light, B ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0038-8979 2019, NSFW: sex, humor, and risk in social media , MIT Press, Boston, MA.
Paasonen, S, Light, BA ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0038-8979 and Jarrett, K 2019, 'The dick pic : harassment, curation, and desire' , Social Media + Society, 5 (2) .
McKee, A, Albury, K, Burgess, J, Light, BA ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0038-8979, Osman, K and Walsh, A 2018, 'Locked down apps versus the social media ecology : why do young people and educators disagree on the best delivery platform for digital sexual health entertainment education?' , New Media & Society, 20 (12) , pp. 4571-4589.
Light, BA ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0038-8979 2018, 'Ashley Madison' , in: Appified , University of Michigan Press., Ann Arbor.
Light, BA ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0038-8979, Bagnall, G ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9870-9290, Crawford, G ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7499-3864 and Gosling, VK ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7404-1110 2018, 'The material role of digital media in connecting with, within, and beyond museums' , Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 24 (4) , pp. 407-423.
Light, B ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0038-8979, Mitchell, P and Wikström, P 2018, 'Big data, method and the ethics of location : a case study of a hookup app for men who have sex with men' , Social Media + Society, 4 (2) , pp. 1-10.