Edupunk vs. EduIT in a nutshell?
I tend to see Jim Groom as Harry Tuttle. But YMMV. I’d probably trust Tony Hirst more with plumbing.
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Messaging, Phatic Overhead, and the Right to Connect
There’s a number of articles, none of which I’ve read, that propose (or assume) that SMS messaging is used as a phatic system.
Under this analysis SMS is like the chatter of the monkeys in trees, a chatter which is primarily used to say
“Are you still there?”
“Yep. You?”
“Yep. Still here. How about now?”
And if you look [...]