I’m guessing you’re mostly here from the Tumblr Technology Spotlight. Thanks Tumblr! And thanks for following.

The 101:

Who: Jay Owens
What: social (media / research / anthropology / theory). Interested in what technology means and what it does to us psychologically and socially.
Especially: identity, privacy, big data.
Basically: social nerd.
Where: London, @hautepop and JayOh.net.
Weekdays 9-7: working at FACE

Two other of my favourite Tumblrs were also spotlighted, so I want to share the love and recommend:

1. Modern Im/Material Things // @CDennaoui
Social media strategist by day, critical theory nerd by night, and former anthropology student to boot. (Sounds familiar!) But Christina studied Middle Eastern politics and religion, and also makes abstract electronic music and digital collage.
[I’ll update with links to my favourite of her posts when her SOPA block comes down tomorrow ;)]

2. Stowe Boyd the Underpaid Genius // @stoweboyd
Stowe describes himself as a “Social anthropologist, clairvoyant, postfuturist. My work is social tools and their impact on media, business, and society.” He’s got an interest in social media tools for work (like Yammer and Basecamp) but envisioning a future where they’re (a) properly social and (b) change how we work.
But I’m recommending him because he also thinks a lot about political implications, economics and green issues.

There are enough people just writing about technology. What’s interesting is to leave the hype-y Silicon Alley bubble and really mash it up with the complexity of the whole wide world out there.