Sour grapes: Everyone is at AoIR in Brighton except me. And Kylie. And, due to cyclone activity, Jeremy (I think). We have repeatedly told our OII summer doctoral program colleagues not to bond without us, but with all that Internet talk, beer and fish and chips (with mushy peas!) by the seaside, it’s not looking good 😉

Junket: Instead, I’m off to the Australian Mobile Telecommunications Association congress in Sydney tomorrow. Which should be interesting. My research question for my time at the congress: to what extent, and it what ways, is the mobile industry really starting to focus on the social contexts of mobile phone use – and how are users imagined in general (or even better – not in general but in their complex specificity)?