We Are Local: Digitally Curating Urban Wanderlust

The We Are Local project is an experiment in collaborative ethnography about social media and social media practices. Unlike other blogs written by multiple authors, We Are Local’s contributors are documenting how social media impacts their day-to-day lives by documenting in as much detail as possible how they use or do not use social media in their social lives. There are no experts of social media at We Are Local. Our claim is simply this: the best way to make claims about the larger implications of social media and culture is to document and understand the relationship between the two on a micro-level and extrapolate from there.

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We Are Local Author || Lauren Campbell

Lauren is a recent Chicago transplant to Boston, having just embarked on an exciting three years of law school. She studied the reintegration of Berlin post-Reunification (in part via media), which subsequently led to landing a research analyst position studying the use of media in corporate communications, primarily as a tool for creating and sustaining brand positioning.

Interested in the ever-evolving sphere of social media, Lauren will be addressing issues of how to integrate oneself into a new community with very few preexisting contacts. She’ll answer questions such as: Where can I get the best Pad Thai near campus? What bar has the best double-beer specials? Do any bands ever play gigs in Boston? Who do I trust to cut my hair? And can I find better answers to these questions through social media than I can by asking friends and acquaintances?

Lauren tumbled at In the Abstract.

11.10.09