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Danah Boyd: Socializing digitally
An investigation into how "hanging out" has moved online

Mark Newman: Connected strategies for connecting homes
For all the excitement about mobilizing entertainment and communications services, we still spend most of our time at home

Leslie Haddon: How users take communication technologies home
A look at the sometimes surprising histories of communications technologies 'at home' and the role of their users

The Faint: Phone Call
An email interview with The Faint, a song and a video

John Seely Brown: Keeping things simple
People look for simple, intuitional, participatory ways to engage with technology as their private life becomes the center of the connected world

Louise Barkhuus: The new television
How the central old-school constituent of home entertainment technology - television - will integrate into the digital home

José van Dijck: Homecasting - video-sharing as a cultural practice
Video-sharing sites - a new, self-contained form of cultural practice that is anything but a replacement of television

Mike Kuniavsky: Appliances evolve
ubiquitous computing appliances will fundamentally change the nature of the home and our experience of it

Fausto Sainz de Salces: Pleasant, personalized, portable - the future of domotic design
Communications technologies can greatly improve people's comfort and safety in the home

Matt Jones: The space to play
The universal human urge to play - and how it relates to the way we design our technology, our environments and our future

Stuart Dredge: Mobile gaming - the troubled teenage years
How mobile games could move beyond the familiar hits like Tetris and Pac-Man to new concepts blending innovation and connectivity

Gonzalo Frasca: This just in. Playing the news
Games are the new news

D.B. Weiss: Lucky Wander Boy - the microsurgeon winner
An excerpt from a story about a man who finds a purpose through and is ruined by his obsession with video games

Auriea Harvey and Michaël Samyn: Games in spite of themselves
An interactive space without rules, goals, language, competition - The Endless Forest

Noah Wardrip-Fruin: Three play effects - Eliza, Tale-Spin, and SimCity
Three different models of what we experience through play

Jim Rossignol: Gaming international
A comparison of European and Asian approaches to gaming

David J Edery: Playing by creating
Why to be excited about user-generated content

Lev Manovich: Interaction as an aesthetic event
A look at the playful user interaction in recent cell phone models and other personal information technology

Lee Humphreys: Out with my mobile - exploring social coordination in urban environments
How mobile technology can facilitate social coordination among young urbanites

Charlie Schick: One night - a global story of one night in the mobile life
A global story of one night in the mobile life

Frank Lantz: Big Games and the porous border between the real and the mediated
Big Games: human-powered software for cities, life-size collaborative hallucinations, and serious fun

Tim Cole: The mobile phone as the next electric guitar (or any other
instrument you want)
Create music with your phone
instead of just downloading it!

Antony Bruno:
Where the long tail ends
Music as mobile content and the prospects of a hits-driven medium

Mark Curtis: Mobilising our meat based selves - social planning while on the hoof
How it is that we are becoming distributed beings

Rudy De Waele: Connecting cultures through music
The almost real world of mobile flyers, mobsharing and in-club VJ-mixes

Karenza Moore: Come together -
the use and meanings of mobiles amongst UK clubbers
On the intersections of clubbing, music, drug and mobile use

Jane Vincent: "I just can't live
without my mobile!"
How come we feel emotionally attached to our mobiles

Tim Kindberg: We are cameras - image acts in personal interaction
About the social uses of camera phones

Pierre Proske: Bleating in the bank queue
A play with an inversion of the silent communications that mobile phones promote

Rich Ling: Nomos and the flexible coordination of the family
How mobile communication contributes to the maintenance
of the family as an institution

Jeff Axup: Blog the World
Watching backpackers' blogging and chatting to inform the design of new tourism technologies

Mark Federman: Memories of now
How we have focused on sharing the "here and now"

Ruth Rettie: How text messages create connectedness
Connectedness is a premier driver
of mobile communication

Joachim R Höflich: The duality of effects - the mobile phone and relationships
On the positive and negative effects of mobile phones as a medium for relationships

Nicola Döring: Just you and me –
and your mobile
How people handle mobile phone calls during romantic dates and meetings with friends

Mark Pesce: Understanding networks
A late convert to the philosophy of wireless tells us why wireless networking reigns supreme

James Katz: The future of a futuristic device
Why users see the mobile phone as a futurist tool, and what they will want in their phones beyond the glittering shell

Lars Erik Holmquist: The mobile user experience - how boundaries between devices are starting to disappear
Experiments with ways to break the isolation between users of portable computers

Jonathan Donner: User-led innovations in mobile use in
sub-saharan Africa
On mobile support for health care
and other developments in mobile communication in Africa

Mark Lowenstein: The next generation of usability - re-thinking the mobile device
Ten principles for optimizing the user experience in the face of an explosion of network and device capabilities

Sara Price and Yvonne Rogers: Designing new learning experiences with pervasive technologies
The use and design of pervasive technologies for combined physical/digital learning environments

Marc Prensky: Mobile phone imagination - using devices kids
love for their education
Especially with kids, cell phones are the ideal platform for computer-aided learning

Nathan Eagle and Alex Pentland: Organizational rhythms - the search for the patterns of the aggregate
An exploration of the intersections of mobile phones, machine learning, and organizational behavior

Jeff Pierce: Serendipitous sharing through personal information environments.
Data access - how mobile phones can become an extension of the PC

Daisuke Okabe and Mizuko Ito: Personal, portable, pedestrian images
Camera phones have become pervasive in Japan and are being used as a ubiquitous visual capture and sharing device

Atau Tanaka: Malleable contents
and future musical forms
How community-based listening and urban mobility lead to the creation of new, participative forms of music

Yat Siu:
Eight visions from mobile Asia
Mobile usage in Asia, the US, and Europe, and a guess on which leading Asian mobile trends are likely to spread westwards

Anthony Townsend: Seoul searching –
cybernomads and the ubiquitous city
A close look at Korea's digitally mediated urban space which, in Seoul's case, achieved a unique intensity

Shin Dong Kim: Mobile media
mobilize generations
On the digital, mobile divide among generations in South Korea's fast ageing society

Seiko Mikami: The perception and interfaces continuum
On her media art project "Gravicells", a visualization of complex technical systems behind processes we take for granted

Weigui Fang:
China's culture of the thumb
Is there a Chinese internet with its own types of content, singular communication styles and specific aesthetics?

Kenji Kohiyama:
Mobile communication and place
The cell phone as an omnipresent gateway to the virtual world will change people's notion of place profoundly

Henry Jenkins: Welcome
to convergence culture
How popular culture is making sense of the changing, convergent forms of digital media content

Tomi T Ahonen: From interesting ideas to compelling mobile services
Wireless services that are evolving
in merging media environments

Ranjit Makkuni: Visions of
culture in the era of mobility
Learn more about culturally
reflective computing

Heinz Hermanns: Mobile movies – taking film to the public space
The qualities, restraints and perspectives of the new cinematic genre "mobile movie"

Oskar Juhlin: Beyond just getting there – the interactive road
The experiential qualities in traffic encounters and how these could be augmented by new mobile technologies

Randy Covington:
The year of the (mo)blogger
Experiences with the "Wireless Election Connection", a moblogg that covered the presidential elections in the United States of America

Richard Harper:
The mistake of convergence
On meta devices that bundle disjunct streams of revenue, but neglect the relationship between media and platform

Dean Wood: Video and multimedia –
a social engagement
About the future of multimedia and video on the handset, and how this will enable the consumer to do more

Frans Mäyrä: The city shaman dances with virtual wolves – researching pervasive mobile gaming
Step into the "magic circle"
of pervasive game playing

Erkki Huhtamo:
Hidden histories of mobile media
Current uses of mobile communication devices and some of the historical points on which media developments abandoned fixed location

Mike Butcher: Rewind>fast
forward>play – mobile Napsterisation
Napsterisation – the mass sharing of music files – is transferring to mobile networks

Adam Greenfield: Along the fault lines
– designing for deception, dishonesty,
and other happy facts of human nature
The social practices that have emerged around mobile telephony, especially the ones developing from unforeseen uses of technology

Tim Clark: Mobile communications and the wireless internet
– the Japanese experience
A close look at a society that handles huge portions of its communication needs via cell phones

Barry Wellman: The mobile-ized
society – communication modes
and social networks
The effects of the individualized connectivity provided by PCs and cell phones on social life

Cory Doctorow: Eastern Standard Tribe – a story about love, death and cellular telephony
Eastern Standard Tribe – an excerpt

Amparo Lasen: Affective technologies
– emotions and mobile phones
Mobile phones – objects mediating the expression and exchange of feelings and emotions

Drew Hemment:
The telephone exchange
The opportunities and barriers facing work with mobile media

John Chasey: The future of mobile gaming – multiplayer games
Thoughts about multiplayer gaming's role in the development of mobile gaming

Derrick de Kerckhove:
The body electric inside out
The mobilization of information
and knowledge construction

Ben Russell:
Locative media and social code
The social qualities of locative
communication

Mark Frauenfelder:
How to hide from your boss
How mobile phones can make
everybody's lives a lot more
complicated

Peter Cochrane: Information –
the ultimate meta-industry
"Information about information" as
the kernel of new business growth

Teri Rueb: Syncopated space –
wireless media shaping human
movement and social interaction
Wireless technologies expand the
context of human communications

Carol Strohecker: Evolving literacy –
crafting messages for senses,
sensibilities, and sense-making
How people use portable devices to
share understandings in everyday
settings

Gerfried Stocker/Andreas Hirsch:
Digital communities on the move
Digitally enabled communication
as a social system

Eric Paulos: Our emerging urban
computing landscape – Familiar
Strangers
Mobility, community awareness
and urban space

Anne Galloway: Mobility as world-
building/technologies at play
How mobile processes continually flow
and playfully shape our worlds

Luc Soete: The economics of the mobilized information society –
a blind spot?
A short discovery tour of the unknowns
of mobile behavioural economics

Timothy Druckrey:
'Real' Telepresence ...
On the position of wireless art
and "Relational Architecture"

Matt Locke: Light touches – text messaging, intimacy & photography
Text message poetry shares many
aesthetic and social characteristics
with photography

Eunhye Grace Chung: The Korean wireless experience – art or content?
Points of intersection between the
creative use of wireless
communication and wireless art

Usman Haque: Invisible topographies
"Sky Ear" reveals the richness
of our electromagnetic habitat

Matt Adams (Blast Theory):
Experiments in mixed reality
On the interrelationship of art and
digital mobility, of overlaying real
and virtual spaces

Tom Charity: A brief history of
wireless in the movies
How the cellphone made it's
appearance in feature films – from
"Wall Street" to "Minority Report"

David Toop: Walking through sound
Wireless technologies and the idea
of peripatetic music

Gillian Wilson: The wireless gallery
How mobile devices can add to
visitors' experience in art galleries

Michael Grebb: Cordless culture – how wireless networks are changing society
A forward glance at the development of wireless networks

Daniel Scuka: Mobile Internet for the silver market
Mobile solutions for the elder part of Japanese society

Mizuko Ito: Mobiles and the appropriation of place
Wireless tools are changing the experience of co-presence

James Goodman: Being unleashed – mobile phones, environment and society
The development of sustainable mobile communication technologies

Lutz Stobbe: Future mobile communication – more than a technology task
Balancing the vision of ubiquitous electronics with social and environmental considerations

Nick Hughes: Mobiles and the environment – here and now!
Potential relationships between mobile communications technology and environmental management

Hazel Butters: I'm a commuter – get me out of here: The future of teleworking
Teleworking changes business culture

Pete Gomes: WYSINWYG
How do wireless technologies and location specific content shape our future urban and suburban landscapes?

Nicholas Middleton:
Satphones and Kalashnikovs
How mobile communication has changed expeditions and field trips to remote areas all over the world

David Shapshak:
Africa breaks the connectivity myth
Cellular communications is ideal for uplifiting Africa

Eric Laurier: Why people say where
they are during mobile-phone calls
There is an answer to the one question we all have asked ourselves before

Paul Levinson:
Cellphone – the jangling saviour
The cellphone is a tool that can get us out in the real world

Derek M. Powazek:
The things we do for love – gifts of
strangers, left in public, guided by
satellites
Virtual communities get real – geocaching

Jeff Goldman:
The mobile emergency –
E911 and E112
The E-911 and E-112 initiatives in America and Europe

Roy Ascott: Is there love
in the telematic embrace
The emergence of telematic culture and the determinants of telematic art

Jeff Lewis: Nomads of time –
telecommunications in the oldest land
Life in the outback integrates itself into the global networked culture of pure interface

James Boyd:
Stories from the watery desert
How satellite communications can provide a lifeline to shore

Sadie Plant: On the mobile
Mobile personalities and the
mobile mode of social life

Fiete Stegers:
Always on - the real world
A trip into the world of
location-based mobile gaming

Timo Kopomaa: The reunited family of the mobile information society
How mobile technologies interact
with social practices - especially
the ones of families

Howard Rheingold:
Mobile virtual communities
Mobilization of communication
leads to the emergence of
new communities

Nicola Doering: "Have you finished work yet? :)" - communicative functions of text messages (SMS)
The reality and myths of
SMS-culture

Robbie Blinkoff and Matt Barranca: Mobile lifestyles
An ethnographic study on mobile
device usage around the world

Scott Gibbons and Golan Levin: Dialtones - a telesymphony
A concert based on the
choreographed ringing of the
audience's mobile phones

Carsten Sørensen: Digital nomads and mobile services
The fluid mobile work practices of
today's digital nomads

John Thackara: Pervasive computing
A way out of the innovation dilemma

Josephine Green: Mobile futures
The services we want and those we can well do without

William Meisel: The Voice Web
Telephone speech recognition + voice user interface = Voice Web

Rosalind W. Picard: Does HAL cry digital tears?
Bringing to life a machine that
offers creative solutions to human problems

Bernhard E. Buerdek: Interfaces - three phases of their development
Interfaces - an artificial limb ignoring the user's anatomy

Ian Volans: Bluetooth - accentuating the generation gap
A vision of the deconstructed mobile

Matt Locke: Being here
The fantasy of communication transcending technology itself

Liz Farrelly: Technology to go
Wearable computers are taking over the catwalk

Birgit Janner: The world of
digital shopping
The e-ssist-project of the Fraunhofer Institute of integrated circuits

Peter Glaser: The data aura
The dawn of the age of the data aura

Eija Kaasinen: Which mobile services do users really need?
The services we want and those we can well do without

Nick Jones: Mobile business
Mobile applications in the world
of business

Paul Kompfner: Travelling hopefully
Mobile information, measured in
real-time and positioned locally

Douglas Adams: A hitchhiker in the new economy
This is "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" beamed into the Internet age

Razorfish: Life after WAP
What happens to design when the homepage suddenly becomes mobile?

Thomas Koch: WAP advertising
and its consequences
The irritating side of mobile advertising and how it could be improved

Michael Heidemann: No mobile Internet without WAP
WAP is becoming an essential part of the future third generation wireless networks

Horst W. Opaschowski:
Generation @ telecommunications
Generation @ - the children of the media revolution

Kevin Werbach: The Next Medium
The mass medium that is the Internet does not target the masses but a large number of individuals

Florian Rötzer: The Culture of Games in the Computer Age
The society of experiences and its passion for games

Trinkwasser: An Echo from the Hard Disk
An e-mail interview and electronic music

Lars Tvede: The Future of the Internet
Broadband technology makes entertainment interactive

Mark Pesce: Now You're an American!
The inventor of VRML on the future of computer-assisted play

Ray Kurzweil: The Sensual Machine
The virtualisation of the human body

Matt Costello, Dieter Kosslick: The Digital Future of Films
Two experts on the current and future relationship between films and the Internet

David S. Bennahum: Pirate's Cove
An extract from the novel "Extra Life"

Chuck D, Lars Ulrich: This is the Biggest Thing Since the Beatles -
But We have to Stop it Until it gets Regulated
Musicians speak out for and against MP3 downloads

Tilman Baumgärtel: From the Middle Ages of the Information Society
The very thing that is exciting about the Net is also its limitation. On a volatile medium

Kevin Kelly: New Rules for the New Economy
An extract from "New Rules for the New Economy", the best-seller by the founder of Wired

Alan Cohen, John M. Jordan: E-Commerce: The Next Generation
Why the infrastructures of electronic business are still underdeveloped

Paul Saffo: DisinteREmediation: Longer, Not Shorter, Value Chains
Are Coming
The growing complexity of the electronic economy is opening up
new opportunities

Nicholas Negroponte: I could be the Store and the Customer
An interview with the founder and director of the MIT Media Lab

Ossi Urchs: All Change. New Rules for the Market Place
The ex-Minister of the Future on the situation of electronic commerce in Germany

Penny Perkins: Thoroughly Modern eMillie
Does e-naming mean anything to you? A look at the latest trends in child-naming

Michael Schrage: Mine, all Mine!
Michael Schrage on the budding efforts to personalise the Web

Chuck Martin: The E-business Revolution
The new economy - an extract from Chuck Martin's book "Net Future"

Peter Glaser: More than mobile
Peter Glaser on Integrated Telecommunications

Florian Rötzer: No More Lies, Ever?
The perfect Lie Detector for Anyone at any Time

Derrick de Kerckhove: The Digital Imperative
The "McLuhan of the 90ies" on the Energy of Virtual Communities

Esther Dyson: Good Grades for the Future
The Internet - quite simply a perfect Tool for Education

Kenny Hirschhorn: An Orange Vision for a Wirefree Future
The Futurologist of Orange on the Future of Telecommunications

Scott Rosenberg: The Wrong Stuff
Off-Base Prediction of the Future

Peter Frey: Airborne Guides Combat Jams on the Ground
Telematics as one Ray of Hope for the Patient Traffic

Michael L. Dertouzos: Oxygen
Do more by doing less with Communications Technologies

Experts Debate: When Will We Experience What?
What We can and what We don't
need to expect?