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The Digital Culture and Mobile Communication Group has well founded insight into the social, political and cultural dynamics of mediated technology. We focus on study of digital culture, digital media, mediated interpersonal communication and the way we use a variety of digital media in our everyday lives for social, practical and expressive purposes. Mobile communication and online media, in both national and international contexts, addressing the interplay of local and global phenomena is one of the key research areas.

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The ANTHEM blog is the public face of ANTHEM, the “Actor-Network Theory — Heidegger Meeting,” a gathering of human and nonhuman actors that are interested in both actor-network theory and the work of Martin Heidegger, as well as the relationship and controversies between the two. Our primary focus is the question of technology. We are interested not only in the philosophy of technology but also in the empirical issues pertaining to the social study of technology.

We are intrigued by Graham Harman’s object-oriented philosophy as a possible bridge between actor-network-theory and Heideggerian phenomenology. We are also interested in other related areas such as postphenomenology, science and technology studies (STS), economic sociology and organisation theory.

ANTHEM started out as an informal weekly reading group of research students in the Information Systems and Innovation Group of the Department of Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science on 20 November 2006. Its founding members were Peter Erdélyi and Aleksi Aaltonen, who were later joined by Ofer Engel and Wifak Houij Gueddana to form the ANTHEM steering committee. ANTHEM also operates a Google Group which has enabled researchers from other parts of the world to participate in the discussions. Readings so far have mainly alternated between key texts of Bruno Latour and Martin Heidegger. The sessions are recorded and also posted on this site, with the aim of encouraging debate along the phenomenology-ANT axis.

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Electronic Book Review is a peer-reviewed journal of critical writing produced and published by the emerging electronic literary network. Each essay is reviewed by a thread editor (a specialist in the academic field) and at least one other ebr editor or external referee. On acceptance, the essay is posted to ebr’s staging site, where it is made available for comment by our 500-plus past contributors, all of whom are published authors in print and online. Comments are conveyed to authors prior to publication, and on occasion they will be published with the articles as glosses. More substantial, even essay-length responses, appear as ripostes.

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Ether Wave Propaganda is a history of science blog that specializes in historiographical issues. It’s a niche blog aimed at people working in the academic disciplines of the History of Science and Science and Technology Studies. Those looking for general science blogs are welcome to follow along and comment, but may find some of the posts a little esoteric.  We do have a “primer” (formerly “hump-day history”) series designed to offer a sophisticated but accessible introduction to various historical topics.  The archive of primers can be found on the “Finding Aid” page.

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