So....I ended up without my phone for two hours during the working day. It needed to have its battery replaced.

One of the central metaphors at the heart of the activities of New Media, both from the creation and audience side, is “interactivity.”

Why and how does the mobile phone play a role in activism in Africa?

In a recent interview on the Today Show, Mark Zuckerberg — the young founder of Facebook . . .

The iPhone is a revolutionary device.

There have been a number of responses to my recents posts and here are some samples:

A discussion on the term "new media" may indeed seem pedantic. I should note, though, that the term has been in use at least since 1967 . . .

I am following this discussion with tremendous interest, though I think that we ought to be careful about assumptions and value judgements . . .

Jonathan Tyrell raises the question: "...if we were to study 'everyday' face-to-face conversations, would we discover less or more idle chatter?

It is just possible that the combined influences of an abundance of multimedia input to the very young - impacts their ability to more fully develop effective interpersonal communication skills.

The panel I chaired at the the Vancouver International Digital Festival was very interesting.

The Vancouver International Digital Festival brought practitioners/creators, programmers, engineers, artists, designers, and many other categories of people together around a common interest in New Media.

This is the second part of my presentation at the [Refresh Conference in New Media](http://www.mediaarthistory.org) at the Banff Centre