while I've been aware of, and highly intrigued by the convergence of french theory and ethnographic internet research in the work of people like Norman Denzin for some time now, this article by Celine Lafontaine in the september issue of TCS - http://tinyurl.com/2zybdq - is the first I've found that actually follows up Turkle's suggestion in Life on the Screen and explicitly argues in a strong way that french theory and cybernetics share a common matrix, or spring from the same theoretical and philosophical problems and sources ... i highly recommend this interesting article to anyone who likes to keep their research theoretically-informed, and would point out to people in general how interesting TCS is becoming these days as it gets closer and closer to the explicit themes of many internet researchers...