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		<title>Call for Participation and Programme: 3rd Digital Cultures Workshop: Navigating Multiplicity #digcult10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[1-2 July 2010 University of Salford, Greater Manchester, UK. Final Programme Here (PDF) Organizers Ben Light and Marie Griffiths &#8211; University of Salford Sian Lincoln &#8211; Liverpool John Moores University Steve Sawyer &#8211; Syracuse University Confirmed Speakers Professor Susanna Paasonen Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies &#8211; University of Helsinki Grabbing by the eyeballs: affective intensities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benlight.org/2010/06/3rd-digital-cultures-workshop-navigating-multiplicity-digcult10-2/</link>
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		<title>3rd Digital Cultures Workshop &#8211; Navigating Multiplicity #digcult10</title>
		<description><![CDATA[University of Salford, UK. 1-2 July 2010 Organizers Ben Light, Marie Griffiths and Gordon Fletcher -University of Salford, UK. Steve Sawyer &#8211; Syracuse University, UK. Sian Lincoln &#8211; Liverpool John Moores University, UK. Confirmed Speakers Professor Susanna Paasonen Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies &#8211; University of Helsinki Dr Kylie Jarrett Centre for Media Studies – [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benlight.org/2010/04/3rd-digital-cultures-workshop-navigating-multiplicity-digcult10/</link>
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		<title>The Last Week in NZ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will it&#8217;s been ages since I blogged anything &#8211; not that anyone would notice! Anyway, I wanted to write up a few things about this week. First &#8211; it&#8217;s been amazing &#8211; to get invited to the University of Auckland (thanks Cathy Urqhart!) and to get to do two talks &#8211; one on SingStar to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benlight.org/2009/07/the-last-week-in-nz-2/</link>
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		<title>#digcult09 a few amusing stories of sociotechnical problems (I think!)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just finished up the digital cultures workshop for this year &#8211; some really great people and talks! I wanted to share a few of the stories I mentioned at the beginning of the workshop &#8211; my attempt at showing how we always encounter problems/issues with &#8216;technology&#8217;. Story 1: Wednesday night, I was at Piccadilly station [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benlight.org/2009/06/digcult09-a-few-amusing-stories-of-sociotechnical-problems-i-think/</link>
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		<title>2nd Digital Cultures Workshop: Social Media Publics? #digcult09</title>
		<description><![CDATA[4-5 June, 2008 University of Salford, U.K. Call for Participation Organizers Ben Light and Marie Griffiths, University of Salford Sian Lincoln, Liverpool John Moores University Steve Sawyer, Syracuse University Keynote Speakers Mobile Technology at Work: Stories of Interaction Asymmetry Carsten Sørensen, Information Systems and Innovation Group, Department of Management, London School of Economics Prostitution, Prosecution [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benlight.org/2009/05/2nd-digital-cultures-workshop-social-media-publics-digcult09/</link>
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		<title>Some Initial Thoughts on LGBT Gamers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I gave a talk at St Andrews LGBT student society. It was my first attempt at talking about some work I have just started on Gay Gamers, and perhaps more broadly LGBT gamers. I am greatly endebted to Fruit Brute &#8211; the creator of gaygamer.net and his posts regarding the &#8220;Top 20 Gayest Video [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benlight.org/2009/03/some-initial-thoughts-on-lgbt-gamers/</link>
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		<title>The Pink Pound Lives On&#8230;.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is an extension to a stream of papers I&#8217;ve written about Gaydar.co.uk along with Gordon Fletcher and Alison Adam (see: Light 2007, Fletcher and Light 2007 and Light, Fletcher and Adam 2008). Based on my ethnograhic work within Gaydar, I/we have looked at how Gaydar works and is made to work by a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benlight.org/2009/03/the-pink-pound-lives-on/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m a Queen, I Outrank You!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not my story &#8211; kindly sent to me by Marie Griffiths - a kind of joke, and yes a stereotype &#8211; but funny&#8230; enjoy&#8230; My flight was being served by an obviously gay flight attendant, who seemed to put everyone in a good mood as he served us food and drinks. As the plane prepared to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benlight.org/2009/02/im-a-queen-i-outrank-you/</link>
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		<title>Digital Cultures 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I co-organising a workshop in June and thought I&#8217;d throw the details on here.  The closing date for submissions is next week and I&#8217;m getting kind of nervous &#8211; I hope we get a good turnout like last year!  We even had good weather, I remember sitting outside a bar at the end of day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benlight.org/2009/02/digital-cultures-2009/</link>
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		<title>Virgin Mobile Grrr&#8230; Things to know to protect your mobile&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay so here&#8217;s some lessons we learnt from experience the other week &#8211; following the lessons is the background story which explains the lessons a bit more &#8230; Try to keep tabs on your phone, especially if you don&#8217;t use it regularly Find out what the credit limit the the provider has set for themselves on your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benlight.org/2009/02/virgin-mobile-grrr-things-to-know-to-protect-your-mobile/</link>
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