The Nordic Research Network Conference 2015 (#NRN2015) was, without doubt, the most well-organised conference I have ever attended. I had the pleasure of presenting a paper on the increasing importance of social media to Orcadian communities.

A Storify summary of the Conference is available online here.

Further Information
Image: Moleskinerie by Alexander Michael Crow (Slide #1).
For further information relating to ‘netnography’, refer to the work of Robert V. Kozinets (Slide #3).
For further information relating to ‘digital socialities’, refer to the article ‘Social Media Ethnography: The Digital Researcher in a Messy Web’ by John Postill and Sarah Pink (Slide #3).
The Buzzfeed article is available online here (Slide #4).
Information relating to the #TwitterJokeTrial can easily be found via a search engine. Screencap originally from the Twitter account of Paul Chambers (thereafter quoted in several blogs and online newspapers) (Slide #4).
Image: Scanned page of a Stenness Peedie Folk printed songbook by Gregor Lamb and Thora Linklater, illustrated by pupils of Stenness Primary School (Slide #5).
The Clapshot Facebook conversation is available online here (Slide #5).
The Giddy Limit Strip 375 is available online here (Slide #6).
The Giddy Limit Merry Dancers Strip and Facebook conversation is available online here (Slide #6).
Information relating to #EdBallsDay can easily be found via a search engine. Screencaps originally from the Twitter accounts of Ed Balls and John Prescott (thereafter quoted in several blogs and online newspapers) (Slide #7).
The Association of Internet Researchers ethics guidance is available online here (Slide #8).
Image: Photograph of The Old Man of Hoy by Judith Crow (Slide #9).

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