During the holiday season, I’ve been reading an advance copy of a great book called Thumb Culture
The book was edited by a friend, Stefan Bertschi, and is a trailblazing selection of pieces on the mobile phone as a social tool. It’s been providing new insight on the landscape within which Socialight exists. I think it’s either available now or will be soon. If I get around to it, I’m going to write up a more detailed review once I’m done reading it.
I had written a chapter for the book, titled “Socialight: Mobile Network, Meet Social Network” that didn’t get into the book since it’s now focused on ethnographic and social research case studies.
However, I still highly recommend the book to anyone to whom this sounds interesting. You can purchase it here.
And if you’d like to read the unpublished chapter, you can find it here.