The most recent edition of lo Squaderno came out this month. It is an online magazine produced in Italy. The title apparently translates as meaning to flick through a magazine to find a particular page (what a great word!). The by-line of the magazine is ‘explorations in space and society’, which the editors explain as follows:

Research is a movement of thought which does not depend on codes or specialized savoirs. It is neither disciplinary nor bound to produce certified, true knowledge. In other words, research is open and endless.

Predicated upon these premises, lo Squaderno is a web magazine devoted to explore and advance research movements.

Launched in Autumn 2006, lo Squaderno collects original short features by people committed to research in various fields. Each issue is structured around a thematic focus around the topics of of space, power, and society.

Based on an article I wrote for Theory, Culture & Society, ‘Love Messaging: Mobile Phone Txting Seen Through the Lens of Tanka Poetry’ (Volume 26, Issues 2-3, 2009, pp.209-232), the editors invited me to submit something for this month’s issue, on the theme ‘Connected & People’.  The result is a short piece, ’Love Media: The Joy of Txt’ (lo Squaderno, #13, September 2009, pp.27-30), based on what I had written before, but more playful and with the sole focus of txting and love messaging.