Message me: Temporality, location and everyday technologies

In this article, we investigate the impact of online platforms on the everyday lives of users, including how the interests of those users affect the forms of emerging digital culture. In doing this, we stress temporality and location as crucial to digital literacies of various kinds and thus undo some of the clichés about freedom, constraint and opportunity associated with various web platforms. We also pay heed to the complex cultural literacies at work in online life at a time when their benefits seem dangerously poised to be instrumentalised for business and management ends. Finally, we stress the significance of the forms of support and solace offered in online venues that exceed, when they don't actually resist, efforts to translate them into the more commercially recognised languages of profit and productivity.