I am currently on holiday. You can tell this because I’m writing, reading and otherwise doing things that I regard as fun. In particular I’ve been catching up on some reading. I’ve been meaning to read Danah Boyd’s It’s Complicated  for some time (and you can see some of my first impressions in the previous post) but I had held off because I wanted to buy a copy. That may seem a strange statement.

I have a distinct tendency to see everything through the lens of what it means for research communities. I have just finally read Danah Boyd’s *It’s Complicated* a book that focuses on how and why U.S. teenagers interact with and through social media.