WDL is a collaborative transdisciplinary blog about the impact of digital technologies upon writing and lived experience. We talk about writing and reading in the context of 'new and old' media, transliteracy, craft, art, process and practice, social networks, cooperation and collaboration, narrative and memory, human computer interaction, imagination, nature, mind, body, and spirit.
I am a doctoral student at the media department of the London School of Economics, studying personal webloggers and their relationship with their audiences. I have just about finished my fieldwork and am about to start thinking about analysing it, so although I don't have anything for anyone to look at about my work (except a brief overview of my research) I hope to have more to share in the coming months. But alongside my thesis topic itself I have numerous other related interests which may well get vented here - eg an interest in power relations among people using new media to communicate.
I have been a participant in various virtual communities for around 18 years and was an Internet consultant specialising in virtual community management before I entered academia. At the beginning of my career I spent 15 years as a technology journalist. I was born in the US, brought up in Canada and the UK and have settled in London.
For more biographical detail you can consult my personal website. I have, as you might expect, a (not particularly) personal weblog at blog.org (since 2001) and I set up a group academic weblog for my colleagues at the LSE (though for the last few months I have been just about the only one writing in it!).
I look forward to learning and participating here, and hope you find my occaisional musings stimulating.
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