[e] jenniferjonesuws@gmail.com [w] http://www.jennifermjones.net School of Creative & Cultural Industries University of the West of Scotland, Ayr Campus Beechgrove, KA8 OSR, Scotland, UK

Jennifer Jones is a PhD researcher within the School of Creative and Cultural Industries at the University of the West of Scotland. Jennifer returned to the University after graduating with distinction from a Masters in New Media and Society at the University of Leicester. Her dissertation was on the identity construct of social media platforms and the user perceived ideas of identity and sociality within them. She is now working on projects closely tied to the Vancouver 2010 and London 2012 Games, in the context of emerging media landscapes and changing labour practices within the creative industries.

Jennifer works as a visiting lecturer at Birmingham City University, teaching classes in New Media, Media Theory and supervises web media and journalism dissertation students. She has conducted research into collecting, managing and analyzing social media outputs from formal events and is currently working on projects relating to social network analysis and subversion of social media within traditional institutions.

In June 2009, Jennifer organised a one-day event on the Uses and Abuses of Social Media, a paper-free seminar which brought together social media practice with theory. Jennifer’s PhD investigates how new media practice is transforming patterns of creative labour, focusing on the Olympic new media.