Have you ever switched your instant messaging status to ‘away’, even if you are at your computer? Then you are not alone. According to a paper presented at the ICA annual conference, the use of this white cyberlie is common among older teens. The findings came in a paper by Mariek Vanden Abeele of the Katholieke Universiteit in Leuven, Beligum and Keith Roe, of the Catholic University, also at Leuven,

I’ll be blogging from the International Communications Association annual conference in Montreal over the next few days. The proceedings started on Thursday with a range of pre-conference events, including one taking a historical perspective on new media, entitled the Long History of New Media. Some initial thoughts from the first session, discussing what is new in new media. Each presenter had five minutes so there was little time for detailed