New Vodaphone Article on Backpackers and Place

Vodaphone Receiver has put out a new issue which is: "all about that yearning factor that comes with using the mobile phone,
about the meta-message which is always present: 'wish you were here'.

My contribution to it is: Blog The World. It discusses some of our latest research, investigating how backpackers are using travel blogs to maintain social relationships with family and friends - both on the road and back at home.
The interesting theme running through these articles is that fact that mobile devices are mediating human relationships. The mobile is our new social sense - it changes how we perceive our relationships, and how we choose to maintain social ties with those around us.

"Jeff Axup is a PhD candidate at the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. His research in Mobile Community Design focuses on the development and design of mobile devices used by groups and how device design might change group behavior. Axup has chosen to look at one highly mobile group in detail and examines what technologies could be used to support backpackers. Read his receiver contribution to find out about the usage patterns and demands he came across with a group of people who to a large extent depend on forming social networks while on the move.
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Be sure to check out their discussion forum for the article if you have feedback for me.