Hi everyone I am relatively new on this list. My name is Robyn Longhurst and I am social and cultural geographer at Waikato University (NZ) who is interested in screen, media and communication. I am wondering if anyone is able to direct me to any work on Skype. I am currently setting up a project that aims is to advance dialogue between human geographers and media studies by examining how family and household members in New Zealand are currently using Skype to reconfigure their everyday familial, social, gendered, sexual, inter-generational, emotional and affectual geographies. I am especially interested in if there is there something qualitatively different about the ‘real-time’ video communication offered by Skype - hearing, and seeing the lived flesh of the ‘real’ person and space on the screen - rather than just written, text and phone communication, that is changing everyday familial geographies and relationships? If anyone knows of any literature on Skype that might be relevant I’d be enormously grateful and willing to share information with others who might also be interested. Thanks in advance. Best wishes Robyn Robyn Longhurst Professor of Geography Editor-in-Chief: Gender, Place and Culture: A Journal of Feminist Geography Geography Programme School of Social Sciences Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences The University of Waikato Private Bag 3105 Hamilton 3240 Aotearoa New Zealand Tel +64 7 856 2889 Ext 8306 Fax +64 7 8384633