Thanks very much for these suggestions Kathy. We're finding, of course, that the topic is hugely bigger than we thought, and so there is much work to be done in understanding what is going on -- and theorising it in terms of larger debates on blogging and Internet studies. Our hope is many others will write on disability and new media, as there seems to be a dearth of scholarship in the humanities and social sciences on this - rather curious given the enormous amount of highly significant cultural, social, and technological activity unfolding. So very much look forward to your own research on this! Gerard Goggin

Hi Peter and Gerald,

Well, I keep a blog at museumfreak.livejournal.com that is sometimes related to disability. There's a number of community journals on LiveJournal which are related, but I think the highest traffic general one would be no_pity. Karen Nakamura, who studies the anthropology of disability in Japan, also has one at www.photoethnography.com/disability. LisyBabe has an excellent and funny one at http://lisybabe.blogspot.com. The Ragged Edge, an online newsletter (www.raggededge.com), keeps a blogroll and recently had an article on disability blogging. Gregor Wolbring (the STS thalidomider) I believe also keeps a blog.

You totally took one of my future planned research topics (sitting as I am at the intersection of social software and disability studies). But maybe since you're in Australia I can still get away with doing it here. That's the difficulty--every time I come up with something to say, I do a literature search and somebody else has already said it!

Kathy

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