Thanks, Alex. Have we met yet? Andrew Herman, Ph. D. Associate Professor Department of Communication Studies Wilfrid Laurier University Waterloo, Ontario N2L 3C5 CANADA 519 884-1970 x3693

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alex.kuskis@netscape.ca 01/12/05 4:44 PM >>> Andrew, By coincidence there's an article about RIM and Mike Laziridis in the January issue of Wired. Here's the URL to the online article: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/13.01/perimeter.html?tw=wn_tophead_5 I might be interested in working on something like this and will talk to you about it at WLU............Alex Kuskis

Alex Kuskis PhD Candidate, OISE/U of Toronto Adjunct Professor, Communication Studies, Wilfrid Laurier U Associate Faculty, Royal Roads U alex.kuskis@netscape.ca alex.kuskis@utoronto.ca ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Herman" <aherman@wlu.ca> To: <air-l@aoir.org> Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2005 3:40 PM Subject: [Air-l] Requesting Help: Blackberries and Mobility

Dear Friends-

I in the process of conceiving a major research project on the Blackberry as metonym for mobile Internet communication. This wil be a multi-dimensional project, involving research into the the development of the Blackberry, the insitutional culture of production at Research in Motion (based here in Waterloo, Ontario--how is that for convenience), advertising and marketing strategies, intellectual property issues,, and ethnographies of the Blackberry in everyday life. What I have mind is a comprehensive cultural analysis of the Blackberry like Paul Du Gay and his collaboraties did for the Walkman in the DOING CULTURAL STUDIES series.

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