<strong>Guest Editorial - Reflections on Comparative Research</strong>

Dr Leslie Haddon is part-time Lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication at the London School of Economics and researcher on the EC project EU Kids Online. Over the last 20 years he has worked chiefly on the social shaping and consumption of information and communication technologies, covering the topics of computers, games, telecoms, telework, intelligent homes, cable TV, mobile telephony and Internet use. In addition to numerous journal publications and book chapters, Haddon was co-author of The Shape of Things to Consume: Bringing Information Technology into the Home (with A. Cawson and I. Miles, Avebury, 1995), author of Information and Communication Technologies in Everyday Life: A Concise Introduction and Research Guide (Berg, 2004) and main editor of Everyday Innovators, Researching the Role of Users in Shaping ICTs (Springer, 2005).