In Praise of Virtual Friends

We are very pleased to announce that, along with the February edition of Words with Jam, we are bringing you our very first podcast: Catriona Troth reading from her article, ‘In Praise of Virtual Friends’. "I have grown increasingly tired, over the past few years, of the periodic flare up – as predictable as flu – of pundits falling over each other to tell us how Facebook has devalued the entire notion of friendship. Like Harry meeting Sally, these pundits insist: there can be no real friendship in cyberspace. Well, I think they are wrong, and here's why."