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down the garden path There’s some interesting predictions in this article on the shape of things to come. I was particularly struck by peer...

lilly flower Blogging seems to be as buoyant as ever in the UK. This article reports that 'of Britain's web population of 26 millio...

caged in La fracture numerique (digital divide) is exposed in a survey of young adults in the US. The survey looked at patterns of use with ...

Hannah and Amy Here’s Hannah and her flatmate Amy who came up to visit last weekend. They’re very polite and wait until us old-timers start ...

Autumn walk Social networking sites provide rich examples of what Giddens describes as the ‘trajectory of the self’. My daughter, Emma descr...

Sometimes I wish it was punk or Pink, thrash metal or breakbeats, but anyway this is Ruth (in the middle), doing her thing with Brown Eyes ...

DSC02116 In his 2001 book, ‘The Future of Ideas’ Lawrence Lessig envisioned a world of free digital creativity – ‘Digital technology has ra...

underwater frisbee Technological change not only offers new sites for research it also provides new ways of conceptualizing research, altern...

Roadmark#2 I suppose it’s inevitable that class affiliation is evident in social networking – after all we’re not all wired into some kind o...

Longhand We’re hearing much more about Facebook in the UK now. When I first came across it, it was something for American college students...

it Where next with virtual worlds? There’s amazing potential here, and they’re springing up all over the place. Colin and Michele have this ...

blinds2 Originally uploaded by on-the-run . There’s been a whole week of blog-bashing in the media. Bouncing off the ‘code of conduct’ stor...

Barking Market at Dagenham Market I’ve been down in London visiting family. I noticed that Emma and Sammy use mobile conversations to co-o...

string1 The Geldof girl writes in the Guardian about MySpace today, mixing up two popular ideas, narcissism and addiction. In the first, pub...

light play Here’s the Digital Ethnography project at Kansas State University, explaining it’s work on YouTube to the YouTube community. The...

Leicester sculpture Today I read Fade to Play’s report on a Cory Doctorow lecture about privacy and surveillance in the new media age. This ...

Souvenir table At last some common sense! Sameer Hindujar’s study shows that teenagers are more alert than they are often given credit for...

door1 Not that I have a problem with it, but I found out that Neil Diamond has a MySpace page. In fact, according to this report , more tha...

Stylish Here’s an interview with Danah Boyd. There’s a bit that just seems to sum up what I wrote about Hannah yesterday. ‘Most of what...

Me and my bag This is Hannah when we met up in London last night. She’s going out with two MySpace friends on Saturday night. ‘We’ve known e...