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Call for Abstracts: Workshop on Everyday Digital Money

Hello! Members of this network may be interested in a workshop that anthropologist Bill Maurer at UC Irvine and I are organizing on how ICTs (especially mobile ICTs) are changing everyday experience and practice involving money. We're calling it Everyday Digital Money: Innovation in Money Cultures and Technologies, and pleased to have Keith Hart and Jonathan Donner as plenary speakers. The workshop will be held this year at UC Irvine on September 18 and 19. Abstracts for presentations ar… Continue

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Links to the Economist special report

Hello all, I have found links to the special report in the Economist. Rich L. Nomads at last http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10950394 Working from anywhere http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10950394 The new oases http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10950463 Family ties http://www.economist.com/specialreports/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10950449 Location, location, location http://www.economist.com/… Continue

Posted by Rich Ling on April 12th, 2008 at 9:01am — No Comments (Add)

Special report on mobility and mobile communication in the Economist

Hello all, There is a special report entitled “Our nomadic future” is in this weeks Economist magazine. The editorial leading into the 14 page report is at the link below. I have not been able to find an electronic version of the special report itself. There are a lot of familiar names there including Naomi Baron, Mimi Ito, Manuel Castells, James Katz, Christian Licoppe etc. It is worth trying to pick up a copy. Rich L. http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11016402

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One third of Americans don’t use SMS

Hello all, I came across this piece just now. Rich L. One third of Americans don’t use SMS April 10, 2008 at 3:57 am · Authored by Julia · Filed under SMS A survey out from mobile comparison shopping site Wirefly has turned up some interesting results on SMS take up. The survey says that roughly a one third of US users called themselves heavy texters and sent between one or two a day to hundreds a month, with another 29 percent labeling themselves as occasional texters. Perhaps the most i… Continue

Posted by Rich Ling on April 10th, 2008 at 4:38pm — No Comments (Add)

Flirting by Text Message, Indians Test Social Limits

Hello all, Here is an interesting piece from the New York Times Rich L. MUMBAI — In this romantically corseted society, Ashish Chettri is as close as you get to a Don Juan. He is an irrepressible flirt: a skirt chaser who claims to pursue three women at a time, a loquacious utterer of compliments, a ceaseless seeker of dates. And that is just with his thumbs. Like many Indians today, Mr. Chettri is a solely cellular Casanova: a suitor who flirts brazenly by text message, but rarely, if e… Continue

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Mobile phones in Papua New Guinea

As I have only recently joined this group, I thought I would introduce myself.

I spent the last 3 years lecturing at a University in Papua New Guinea, in communication studies and journalism. I am now commencing my PhD at Queensland University of Technology.

My research will explore the social impact of mobile phones in Papua New Guinea.

 
 

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