APOLOGIES for the persistent formatting problems that plague this blog.

I have hopefully corrected most of these now. I am working to correct the remainder, please tell me if you are having difficulties!

Ian

BTW, here is a useful set of links: http://members.aol.com/leshaddon/Links.html
prepared by Leslie Haddon (whose work is always worth following) which includes, among others:

Integer Programme – http://www.integerproject.co.uk/

UK project aimed at furthering the development of Intelligent and Green homes...

COST269 – http://www.cost269.org/

'User Aspects of ICTs' ... reports and papers including ones on mobility and ICTs, capabilities and ICTs, the extended human, cultural factors shaping ICT use and the process of collaboration when researching ICTs. The network also organised a conference in Helsinki in 2003 called ‘The Good, the Bad and the Irrelevant: The user and the future of information and communication technologies’ (Details at http://goodbad.uiah.fi - papers available from this site).

EMTEL - http://www.emtel2.org

The 'European Media Technology and Everyday Life’ network

HOIT - http://www.hoit.org

The Home Orientated informatics and Telematics network . For abstracts from the last conference, see http://crito.uci.edu/noah/abstracts1.htm

e-Living - www.living-digital.com

EC project from 2002-2004 involving a longitudinal survey of ICTs in Bulgaria, Germany, Israel, Italy, Norway and the UK. Reports from this work are downloadable.

SIGIS – http://www.rcss.ed.ac.uk/sigis

EC funded programme, looking at issues of gender and social inclusion. The reports from various projects are downloadable.

Sociological Institute, University of Zurich – http://socio.ch/mobile/index_mobile.htm

This site has links to publications on the mobile phone and mobile computing and hosts some discussion groups in this field

SOCQUIT - www.socquit.net

EC funded programme looking at Social Capital in Europe and questions about how ICTs can increase our quality of life .

Designing the User - http://www.zigt.ze.tu-muenchen.de/users/

web-site of two German historians of technology which has the details of a network of people interested in the consumption of 20th Century technology .

Telenor publications - http://www.telenor.no/fou/program/nomadiske/artikler.shtml

This site contains Telenor’s research publications, including Richard Ling’s many papers, especially on mobile telephony. Many are in English and downloadable.

Richard Ling Home Page – http://richardling.com

prolific writer on the topic of mobile phones, amongst other things

Sociology of the Mobile Phone - http//socio.ch./mobile/index_mobile.htm

Swiss Site with links to various online texts worldwide, many of which concern the mobile in everyday life

Mobile phone/SMS/Instant Messaging Research - http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~nalink/mobile.html

Pew Internet and American Life Project - http://www.pewinternet.org/

downloadable reports that have analysed a US database on Internet use.

The HomeNet Project - http://homenet.cs.cmu.edu/progress/index/html

Centre for Communication Policy Internet Study, UCLA – http://ccp.ucla.edu/pages/internet-report.asp

This site has downloadable reports that have analysed a US database on Internet use.

Stanford Institute for the Quantitative study of Society (SIQSS) Internet and Society study – http://www.stanford.edu/group/siqss/

This site has a downloadable report that has analysed a US database on Internet use.

Barry Wellam Homepage - http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman

work on social networks and computer networks/the Internet as well as on other topics such as the Digital Divide.

NOAH project - http://www.crito.uci.edu/noah/publications.htm

'National Outlook for Automation in the Home' project

Resource Centre for Cybercultural Studies – http//www.comwashington.edu/rccs

Silicon Valley Culture Project - http://www.sjsu.edu/depts/anthropology/svcp/index.html

ethnographic studies in the cultures living and working in the hi-tech communities of Silicon Valley.