It’s always fun to do research, but it’s even more fun when people find what you do interesting. We have had a lot of attention for the Facebook work that our group of stalwart student researchers have done over the last year and a half or so. The most recent Read more…
Just a quick note (due to some painful publishing deadlines this weekend) to wish everybody a Happy Valentine’s Day and a Happy Chinese New Year! Daughter Karla drew this picture for the Year of the Tiger. Mr. F and I are dragons, which should come up again in 2012. I Read more…
Today provided a fun opportunity to discuss our student group’s loneliness and Facebook research with an audience far from home–via Mike Blanchard’s “Calgary Today” show on AM 770 CHQR. Their news producer had asked me to respond to an article in the Atlantic that suggested that the ubiquitous connectedness technology Read more…
A few months ago, I heard from Mark Melnychuk, who represented a group of Canadian journalism students who were in the process of exploring and documenting Maker Culture. Mark asked me what I thought of the Makers, and to be frank, I had to tell him I’d never heard of Read more…