Acknowledgement

I thank all tutors and students on the University of Edinburgh ‘Digital Education’ Distance Learning programme, in particular my supervisor Dr Jen Ross and Prof Sian Bayne for their dedicated and continued support.

I also wish to thank the School of Economics at the University of Edinburgh for funding the 60 credit Certificate study, as well as the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Edinburgh for offering me the staff scholarship to complete the MSc.

I thank my partner the artist Ian Reddie who listened attentively throughout our London St. Martin days when the first seeds for this project were planted, back in 1986...  

I thank him for letting me take photos of his paintings as part of my own ethnographic journey, uploading these along the social media landscapes.

14 October 2014