<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hello, list. I've been lurking, too, looking for a place to enter. Regarding the theme of the Fall conference, my interests in thinking about the Internet as factory or playground would most likely involve the question of temporality--the relation between factory time and playground time. My forthcoming book, <i>Premediation: Affect and Mediality after 9/11</i> (Palgrave, March 2010) deals in part with the altered temporality of our media everyday in the current formation of social media. <div><br></div><div>Regarding the two recent links on Iran and Twitter, I offer a link to my blog, where I've thought a little bit about this in the last week. </div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; "><a href="http://premediation.blogspot.com/">http://premediation.blogspot.com/</a></span></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks, all, for an engaging and lively exchange. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>Richard Grusin</div><div><a href="mailto:r.grusin@wayne.edu">r.grusin@wayne.edu</a></div><div><a href="http://premediation.blogspot.com/">http://premediation.blogspot.com/</a></div><div><br></div></div><br></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></span><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> </div><br></body></html>