From the Archive: Don Slater, 'Making Things Real' - draws on an on-line ethnography of people exchanging sexually explicit material (`sexpics') and communications over Internet Relay Chat (IRC). (2002) journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
If materiality is necessary for social order, we can usefully investigate what happens in
social settings (such as, in this case, an Internet setting)...
