as promised the slides are on our website... http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/seminars.html
Ben On 5 Sep 2007, at 08:58, Ben Anderson wrote: > > for info & apologies for xposting. I appreciate that most of you > can't get to this but hopefully the .ppt will be available > afterwards. If you want to keep informed of our seminars etc why not > add our feed to your rss reader? > > http://istr.wordpress.com/feed/ > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: "Ben Anderson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: 13 August 2007 16:52:10 BDT >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Subject: Chimera seminar - 11th September: "mobile phone = bike >> shed? Children, mobile phones and sex" >> Reply-To: "Anderson, Ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> Our September seminar will be: >> >> "mobile phone = bike shed? Children, mobile phones and sex" >> >> Emma Bond, Chimera, University of Essex >> Location: Seminar Room 1, Ross Building, Adastral Park, Ipswich, UK. >> Date: Tuesday, 11th September >> Time: 13:00 - 14:00 >> >> http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/contact.html >> >> All welcome - if you need a pass for Adastral Park please contact >> Alison Lealman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). >> >> Abstract: >> Derived from a wider study based on children's perceptions of mobile >> phones and risk in their everyday lives, this presentation considers >> children, mobile phones and sexuality. It examines contemporary >> discourses of childhood, culture and sexuality in post modernity to >> suggest that the mobile phone is central to understanding children's >> social networks, sexuality and reflexivity in their construction of >> self-identity. The data obtained from focus groups with children >> resonate with notions of the pursuit of self and personal identity >> and the research findings suggest that whilst the relationship >> between the mobile phone, young people and sexuality is complex, it >> is fundamentally important to understanding contemporary children's >> everyday lives and their construction of self and as gendered, sexual >> identities. The children in the study were creative using both mobile >> and other technologies to construct and maintain sexual identities, >> share material of a sexual nature and manage intimate, romantic >> relationships. The findings suggests that the mobile phone provides a >> space in contemporary children's lives for developing their >> sexuality, the sharing of and exploration of sexual material and >> indeed each other's bodies largely concealed from the adult world. >> >> ---- >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Announcements of seminars, workshops and events from Chimera. >> >> Previous seminar slides can be found at: >> >> http://www.essex.ac.uk/chimera/seminars.html >> >> Chimera blog: http://istr.wordpress.com >> >> To unsubscribe from this list go to: >> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/chimera-announce.html > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "mobile-society" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/mobile-society?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
