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A lot of academic research, of course, is about talking to people. I want to talk to a young person.
I want to talk to an old person. I want to talk to a disabled person. I want to talk to a person who looks like a Trump voter. People can get behind it. Getting behind an idea is much harder than getting behind an action. Could you even imagine? I went to church with them, I graduated from high school with them, I am Facebook friends with them. I can speak Trump voter, in some way, and I can speak church. It made me think: Close to 1, people participated in the survey I built, over the space of the weekend.
I could have had many more people participate, but I had to wade through the data myself, which is hard. He helped me craft some of the questions, and then once the data was in, I used Google Forms, which is pretty great at that sort of thing.
Jeremy helped me parse a lot of the conclusions. It was snowball crowdsourced, which in ethnography means that I shared it with some friends, who then shared it with other friends, and sharing it that way and through BuzzFeed means you get a particularly skewed conclusion.
It was more like using the beginnings of science to talk about a cultural observation.
I think within a discipline there should be two modes of writing. Those kind of nitty-gritty, peer reviewed articles actually allow those people to better their work, to move the discipline forward. Those conversations are inward facing. I think we need to be better at training people how to think about that outward-facing component.
If you say to someone, you know the thing that grabs you right at the beginning of the article? What is that for your research? Carrie Neill is a New York based writer, editor, design advocate, bookworm, travel fiend, dessert enthusiast, and a fan of People Nerds everywhere. Obsessed with understanding what makes People tick.
When did you first become interested in that? Was there an early moment when you realized you could learn about people by looking at how they were responding to something? One of the women you devote a chapter to is Melissa McCarthy. You argue that her public image is actually very calculated, and that she tempers the roles that she plays on-screen, an unruly Bridesmaids character or an aggressive Sean Spicer, by doing interviews or participating in magazine features that highlight the domestic, homemaker side of her.
What does it say about us as a society that she has to do that? In late October, the quantitative data seemed to be pretty definitively saying there was no way that Trump was going to be elected. Yet here was this window into what was actually happening, and what you can learn when you get on the ground and talk to people. So where did the idea for that piece come from?
Because, and you delve into this pretty explicitly in the piece, many of these women did not necessarily want to be found, or outed as Trump voters. In thinking about trends, one of the major differences between journalism and a more structured social science approach is the sample size of people that you talk to. As a journalist, you can sort of decide how big that sample size is, and a lot of it is based off of instinct. So how do you bring a sense of rigor to that aspect of what you do?
One of the conclusions that you come to is that we swipe because of semiotics, and that class is a major factor in the decisions people make when online dating. You had the idea for the piece when you were at a bar, and saw a friend using the app, and feeling like it was very far removed from the idea of romance. How did you go about constructing the exercise, coming up with the sample profiles, culling through the data? You become the product, which ties back to that idea of celebrity.
In some ways, people on online dating sites are crowdsourcing themselves to be the best possible product that they can be. The ones that do it really well are the ones that are the most popular. Why is it important to make work more broadly accessible? And how do you go about training yourself to write differently?
The second one called me the next day and accused me of drugging him at the bar. This was especially weird because he left alone without even saying goodbye to me. The third met me for lunch and was actively swiping on Tinder matches during the meal. Ironically, I am still using Tinder. Then, we go back to my place and hook up. In the middle of the night, I wake up to the feeling of wetness in my bed. I realize he straight-up peed the bed!
I'm freaking out and I just keep asking her what I should do. Should I try waking him up again?
Should I Febreze it? My friend just keeps laughing hysterically at me, and I end up staying in the bathroom for two hours. She lived on the first floor of some dorms in a college across town. We got down to business immediately and slept after.
The question for the media industry is how to change with them. Order by newest oldest recommendations. He seemed nice enough: That kind of statement might have flown a couple years ago, but with digital media having clearly entered its awkward teenager phase — not yet a mature adult, but certainly beyond its childhood — those answers did little to counter the industry dread that is getting harder to tamp down. My work looks at the cultural context of why we like the things we like, why we respond to celebrities the way we do, and what that tells us about ourselves and what we value as a society. To make things even stranger, she wrote down each of my answers to her questions.
She seemed pretty cool. I woke up naked with a tight elastic band around my ankles basically tied up my ankles. She had hidden my clothes. To make things even stranger, she wrote down each of my answers to her questions. I waited until she left to use the bathroom, then I searched the entire dorm for my clothes. I found them in the refrigerator in the vegetable drawer.
I got dressed SO damn quick, and jumped out of the window. It was kind of busy, so it took me a while to realize that he had been gone a long time. I went over to check on his date, and as I got closer I saw that she was crying. He left her with the entire bill. My brother was visiting me at school and I invited a girl I met on Tinder over. I got some angry messages afterwards.
The whole thing was really weird and strange. Later that night, he called me saying he left his keys in my car and asked me to bring them to him. Did I mention he didn't have a car? I considered ignoring him completely, but eventually I brought them to him. Then I started getting calls from this girl, who he claimed was his crazy roommate that was in love with him and kept trying to get him fired from jobs.
Right from the beginning of the evening, it was clear that he was trying to prove to me he was a baller. He looks at me and starts freaking out, pounding the table and screaming, 'How dare you judge me! How dare you judge how I make my money! I still can't believe someone this crazy is allowed to operate on people. Everything was going great. We went to a Thai place and then went back to her place.
Aug 6, As far as you're concerned online dating is for losers. 5. your friends start to talk to you about how much success they've had online. Apr 22, Time for STAGE ONE of Young Adult Dating: Hit on Everyone in Sight. Except all the people who write to you online are, uh, not your type.
A man walked out of a bedroom in the apartment and she introduced me to her boyfriend. She asked if I would join in on some group action with them.