Did You Seriously Get Funding To Study Whether Instagram Is All Selfies?
This Weasel Is Not Food Nor A Selfie Kristina BlomToday in "Did You Seriously Get Funding To Study That?" a group of Swedish researchers performed a study to see if people try hard at Instagram. Good work by the research team at the University of Gothenburg, which has a bright future as respectable-looking, labcoat-wearing con men if this whole science thing doesn't work out. The three-person team gave phones with Instagram to a bunch of people at a museum and watched what they did with them. The findings: people used those phones to take pictures and upload them via Instagram. It seems that the study was motivated by a perception in "the media" (who are these people??? Am I one of them? I don't think I've suggested anything of the sort!) that Instagram is a "trivial pastime" "used to post mostly of self-portraits and pictures of food [sic]." This sort...