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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 [...]]]></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 and Positioning: The Curious Case of Craigslist
Theresa Senft &#8211; School [...]]]></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 descend, he came [...]]]></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 account, for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benlight.org/2009/02/virgin-mobile-grrr-things-to-know-to-protect-your-mobile/</link>
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		<title>Web 2.0 Cyber-Stalking?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Below is the text from a Cutter IT Email Advisor I wrote last week.  It&#8217;s on Web 2.0 and work. 
What&#8217;s Your Web 2.0 Ethics?

Many are engaging with Web 2.0 technology in their personal lives, and increasingly at work. Even if you don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s much new in Web 2.0 technologies, that it&#8217;s merely a renaming of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benlight.org/2009/02/web-20-ethics-and-work/</link>
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		<title>Back on Twitter&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just reregistered for twitter &#8211; username doggyb (it&#8217;s not as bad as it sounds &#8211; I just like dogs!)&#8230;  I did register a while ago but didn&#8217;t really catch on to it, but a few things have prodded me to register again in the last week or so&#8230;.  I met up with Paul Carruthers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.benlight.org/2009/01/back-on-twitter/</link>
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