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The way Layar can deliver additional location-based information is a real bonus if you're in the right place with the right kind of phon...

In affluent and highly-digitized societies childhood is infused with technology. Digital technology has to be factored in from the prenatal ...

In the everyday use of tools, their operation becomes routine and normalized. Interfaces work in the same way. When we switch devices there ...

For me Clarke's shoes are forever associated with the sensible and conventional footwear of the late '50s. Now they are the shoe of ...

Young children lit up yesterday's dissemination conference of the 'Children's playground games and songs in the new media age...

Will robots ever become part of everyday life in the way that computers have? Well, I suppose it depends on what counts as a robot. I'm ...

Studies of the textual landscape seem to be grabbing our attention at the moment, and some of the work seems to reach a bit further than the...

The way in which colour associates with ideas and rituals is certainly a cultural construction. Note the way in which people in different so...

I love Michael Constanza’s video of Hope Sandoval on this YouTube clip. The dreamy quality goes so well with the track. It’s interesting h...

Talking with one of the teachers we hope to involve in the learning futures project, the old topic of firewalls came up. She described the i...

I always think a good breakfast sets me up for a day of writing, and having just signed a couple of contracts I'll be needing all the he...

Well, good: blogging is catching on! But I was left rather bemused by this article that showed how introducing children to blogging had revo...

I've just finished reading de Waal's book (see interests) and I must admit that I'm still unconvinced that it deserves so much ...

You wouldn't really be that surprised to find social identity encoded in microblogging, but then to find regional dialect and particular...

Do we have a cultural obsession with the virtual, with concerns about the boundaries between fantasy and reality, who guards them, and to wh...

I was brought up in the era of the corner shop. It was predominantly a one-man operation (and I use the gendered form consciously, because m...

Defacing books still fills some people with horror. It's amazing how often people get quite hysterical about marking one's place by ...

The story of Socrates and the slave boy in which the latter learns some basic geometry has an almost iconic status amongst educators. It is ...

After several years of teaching in synchronous environments in which participants are geographically dispersed you get accustomed to the pro...

As a way of describing social interaction, the metaphor of a network is appealing in a number of ways - after all, it suggests connection be...