Happy New Year! I have published a paper in the series of papers from the Centre for Internet Research here in Denmark. You can go direct to it following this link: http://www.cfi.au.dk/publikationer/cfi/011_taekke Abstract This paper provides an analysis of chat as a technical media for communication. This is realized using the strategy for analyzing that I have called Media Sociography (Tække 2006). The Media Sociography is a synthesis of Medium Theory and the Systems Theoretical Sociology of Niklas Luhmann. The aim of the paper is to describe social reproduction under the constraints of chat, but also to show that Media Sociography can provide a unified theoretical framework for CMC-studies. The paper is also indented to provide an introduction to the Media Sociography for an English speaking public. Keywords: Chat, Medium Theory, Systems Theoretical Sociology, Computer Mediated Communication, Media Sociography. Best Regards Jesper cand.mag, ph.d. Jesper Taekke Dep. for Information- and Media Studies Aarhus University, Denmark http://home16.inet.tele.dk/jesper_t/