Instant Messaging Barbie

San Francisco: I use this toy as an example in some of my presentations. Check out the tags that people associate with it: police state, orwellian, cavity search, and sheep all jump off the page. People will try to make the case that the new ways of interacting are illegitimate, and these tags shows that, I think.

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Amazon.com: Instant Message Girls Barbie: Toys & Games, originally uploaded by Stowe Boyd.

[pointer from Cindy Stanford]