Teens and social networks

Check out the dissertation from Danah Boyd at University of California in Berkeley,Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics available at:
http://www.danah.org/papers/TakenOutOfContext.pdf
Anyone with an interest in social networks will find this really fascinating stuff, Danah spent 2.5 years studying the use amongst teens in the US.

Libraries and IT departments

In a recent blog post, educationalist John Connell raised the issue of what he described as the “IT head-lock” in Scottish local authorities. Referring to the education sector’s difficulties with IT departments, John notes “…the almost complete professional and attitudinal disconnect in most Scottish local authorities between those who manage the corporate IT networks and [...]