Tiara.org is the personal homepage of Alice Marwick, aka alicetiara. I am a social software researcher based in Boston and New York City.

I am currently a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England in the Social Media Collective, and a Visiting Researcher at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. In the fall of 2012, I will be joining Fordham University's Department of Communication and Media Studies as an Assistant Professor.

I study online identity and consumer culture. I'm currently looking at social status and conspicuous consumption online; fashion bloggers; LGBT youth transmedia viewing practices; teens and privacy practice on social networking sites; online celebrity; life-streaming and personal documentation; and self-branding as a technology of subjectivity. You can read the papers I've written here.

I am currently working on a book, tentatively titled Status Update, for Yale Press. It will be an expanded and rewritten version of my dissertation.

I got my PhD from New York University in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication in 2010. Click here for a full bio and press clippings.

I like thrift stores, small dogs, teen-targeted TV shows, and dystopian sci-fi novels. I'm all over the net in many guises. Tiara.org has been online continuously since 1999.

 
I half-assedly maintain two social media research bibliographies:

• Online Identity bibliography (last updated 8/16/06)
• LiveJournal academic research bibliography (last updated 10/27/08)