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Well I thought it was a while since I posted - and it's longer than I thought - at least six months.br /br /I've been really busy here in Lancashire, getting to know everybody in the local schools and education, ...
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strongEvery person is a story that needs to be told/strongbr /br /blockquoteiEvery person is a story. We all carry an unwritten book about in us. Everything is to be found in our lives. We can just produce it. All things ...
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If there was a competition for internet buzzword of the year, then this year’s winner would probably be ‘social networking’. Briefly social networking (SN) is about using a variety of tools to connect to other individuals or groups. Recently SN ...
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Here in the Cyberspace Research Unit at UCLAN we have a team of researchers with a range of expertise in teaching (children) and training (providers) in Internet safety. Indeed we are at present the UK node for the Home office/EU ...
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h2I felt I identified with this post from a href="http://spaces.msn.com/superspace64/Blog/cns!1BD03D88C16006AA!258.entry"superspace24/a:- /h2br /br /bYou know you're lost in cyberspace when.../bblockquotebr /br /1. You accidentally enter your password on the microwave.br /br /2. You haven't played solitaire with real cards in years.br ...
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Apologies for the delay since my last post but I have started a new job at the a href=http://www.uclan.ac.uk/host/cru/Cyberspace Research Unit/a at UCLAN and life has been a bit hectic – CRU are in the final stages of developing a ...
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Well I have arrived at the University of central Lancashire in Preston - I had really forgotten the hassle it can be when you start a new job - not with the people - but with travelling, parking, eating, internet ...
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Join me over the next few weeks as a guest blogger at a href="http://www.antropologi.info/blog/anthropology/" anthropologi.info/a as I chart the changes in perspectives that have informed both my own work and anthropology as a discipline, and discuss the challenges currently facing ...
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An interesting story by Rafaela von Bredow at a href= [service.spiegel.de] without Numbers or Time /aabout a remote tribe whose language is totally unique:blockquotei "The Pirahã people have no history, no descriptive words and no subordinate clauses. That makes ...
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I will soon be joining the a href="http://www.uclan.ac.uk/host/cru/"Cyberspace Research Unit /aat the Department of Forensic and Investigative Science, UCLAN. br /br /The Cyberspace Research Unit's missions are to: br /liempower children and young people with the tools, knowledge and skills ...
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blockquoteiThe most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before./ibr /Vita Sackville-West, 1892 - 1962/blockquotebr /Well the blog has ...
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A conference was held at a href= [papers.ssrn.com] Law School's Berkman Center for Internet and Society/a (sponsored by Microsoft!). Twelve papers are available for download and a a href= [hlssun3.law.harvard.edu:8888] of the event is also available.br /br /blockquotebr ...
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I have just come across this story on the a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4923488.stm"BBC/a of a homeless women who a href="http://wanderingscribe.blogspot.com/"blogs/a about the experience of living in her car in London:blockquotebr /“It's a tale of our time - about being cut off from ...
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Well I attended the a href="http://www.britsoc.co.uk/events/339"BSA conference /athis weekend at the Harrogate International Centre. I enjoyed the conference (more on my paper later), and Harrogate is still as beautiful as ever, but I’m not sure about the venue: br /br ...
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I chose not to attend the ASA conference at Keele this year – instead I am going to the BSA conference at Harrogate this weekend. In part this is because I felt the need to network among sociologists as well ...
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Using nicknames on the Internet is an interesting phenomenon that prompts all kinds of questions: who uses a nickname? Why is a particular nickname chosen? and how? Using a nickname often prompts others to suppose that the user wishes to ...
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Many of you will have been there… studying for your PhD in Anthropology, examining ‘other’ cultures and generally having deep and meaningful discussions about life, the universe and everything. Problematically the answer to what to do afterwards is not easy ...