TweetWe’re hosting the following public lecture at the Centre for Film and Media Studies next week: The Remaking of Citizens: Media, Civic Participation and Learning. David Buckingham Loughborough University, UK In most Western democracies, young people are seen to be disaffected from civic and political life. Yet while television has been accused of contributing to [...]

TweetYesterday I presented some of my work on visualising mobile messaging discourse at ISEA2010 Ruhr. Here are the slides from my presentation: Mobile republic: Visual approaches to discourse in South African mobile social networks View more presentations from Marion Walton. Walton, Marion. 2010. Mobile republic: Visual approaches to discourse in South African mobile social networks. [...]

TweetI’m presenting a paper today with Jonathan Donner about the role of mobile Internet in the SA 2009 elections, at the International Conference on Mobile Communication and Social Policy, at the Center for Mobile Communication Studies, Rutgers University. The conference has been a wonderful way to meet social scientists and humanities scholars studying mobile communication [...]

TweetI hate shopping. For example, if I find a t-shirt that I like, I usually buy three or four, just in case I don’t go shopping again next year. So it’s pretty hilarious that I’ve indulged in a quiet binge of virtual consumerism over the last few weeks. Andrew Burn and Diane Carr from the [...]