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Anthea Rowan had a good piece in yesterday's Telegraph . As to be expected it drew the usual range of comments. The full text from which...

A few years ago the cool hunters of adolescent literacies were reporting that young people thought that email was dead. You might send an em...

It’s always encouraging to see researchers from different disciplines engaging with similar issues. My own work (2001) suggested that the em...

Rush hour Phnom Penh 1 Back in November I wrote a critique of Rheingold’s flash mobs and the whole idea of direct action mediated by new tec...

Fog your brain Thank goodness it's just texting and emailing....blogs are perfectly OK! Phew. Here's the wonderful Becky Bowley (r...

Black Thinking about nested spaces and the networked individual made me go back to Bauman's observations about mobiles (in Liquid Love ...

bathroom wall Are we learning to live in the interstices, between here and nearly hear, between now and soon? Thinking in this post about h...

Revolution House Most social networking sites allow users to create a profile and to publicly display their social connections and allegianc...

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 ...

bright kids There’s now quite compelling evidence to suggest that British mobile phone owners just love to text. Even though mobile phone ow...

Heart_Open_Back You've only got to mention phone masts in front of some people and they go all NIMBY. There's been a fascinating deb...

Canada 2007 011 Today I was asked by The Globe and Mail for a comment on lolcats. Lolcats and the new ‘cweeole’ language are an interesti...

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...

baggage In this article I wrote about some of the popular manifestations of moral panic that surround online interaction. I suggested that ...

The house of rock Here’s Danah Boyd predicting the future of social networking sites. It’s clear that there are some local differences her...