During my senior year in undergrad, I wrote a term paper discussing the changes taking place in communication technology using Chatroulette as a subject and I performed a sort of “mini-ethnography”. What I found was that using the internet, email, instant message, Skype, text message, and Chatroulette was not changing communication fundamentally as much as…

It would seem that we’re over-using some words these days. Each year Lake Superior State University compiles a list of words that are voted on for over-use. These words are then listed as “banned”. While they’re not actually banned words, they are just used much too often and become annoying to enough people to get…