[Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility

[Alexander Kuskis]

Andrew,
By coincidence there's an article about RIM and Mike Laziridis in the 
January issue of Wired. Here's the URL to the online article:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/perimeter.html?tw=wn_tophead_5
I might be interested in working on something like this and will talk
to you about it at WLU............Alex Kuskis
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Alex Kuskis 
PhD Candidate, OISE/U of Toronto
Adjunct Professor, Communication Studies,
Wilfrid Laurier U
Associate Faculty, Royal Roads U
alex.kuskis at netscape.ca
alex.kuskis at utoronto.ca

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andrew Herman" <aherman at wlu.ca>
To: <air-l at aoir.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 3:40 PM
Subject: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility


> Dear Friends-
> 
> I in the process of conceiving a major research project on the
> Blackberry as metonym for mobile Internet communication. This wil be a
> multi-dimensional project, involving research into the the development
> of the Blackberry, the insitutional culture of production at Research in
> Motion (based here in Waterloo, Ontario--how is that for convenience),
> advertising and marketing strategies, intellectual property issues,, and
> ethnographies of the Blackberry in everyday life.  What I have mind is a
> comprehensive cultural analysis of the Blackberry like Paul Du Gay and
> his collaboraties did for the Walkman in the DOING CULTURAL STUDIES
> series.
>