The use of the social networking site Twitter as a backchannel for conversation during both planned and unplanned activities and events is now almost routine in much of the world, including in higher education. This paper provides a small case study of student perceptions and use of Twitter for informal learning during a mixed mode…[Read more]

This thesis is concerned with the role of media in the experience of place in three local government areas. It builds upon recent scholarly work that seeks to rehabilitate the relationship between place and media following earlier claims that media usage could only
inhibit a sense of place, or bring about a condition of placelessness. The…[Read more]

The actions of making trails and wandering along them have long been limited to just a couple of realms: either they have existed in media such as games, in the imagination, or they have taken place in the physical world. This article is a speculative engagement with the metaphysics of the mobile phone-based augmented reality game Pokémon GO,…[Read more]