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• The latest blogging research (a little late)

  
  Mediating Conflict — Authority: 110
  There was a conference in Milwaukee recently which I feel like I should have been at. But then you cant go to everything. It was the tenth annual conference of the Association of Internet researchers, entitled Internet: Critical . Fortunately for me, Axel Bruns, documented a number of the blogging panels and ...
  3 weeks ago

• AOIR Wrapup

  
  Unit Structures — Authority: 106
  I spent the majority of last week in Milwaukee, WI attending the 10th annual Association of Internet Researchers conference .  This was my first time attending AOIR, and it was a great experience.  As an interdisciplinary researcher, I enjoyed seeing the diversity of methods and theories being applied to internet ...
  4 weeks ago

• Zurück von IR10, weiter nach Basel, Zwischenstopp: eVideo

  
  digiom. ein studienblog ber das leben in und mit digitalen online medien. — Authority: 415
  Der Oktober ist wahrhaftig ein intensiv gefüllter Konferenzmonat: Gerade zurück von der Internet: Critical , der zehnten Ausgabe der jährlichen Konferenz der Association of Internetresearchers geht es gleich weiter nach Basel zur „ Netcultures – Identitätspräsentation, Kommunikation und Privatheit auf Social ...
  4 weeks ago

• The Impact of Design Features on the Social Network Formations on Twitter and Plurk

  
  Snurblog blogs — Authority: 103
  Milwaukee. The final speaker of this final session at AoIR 2009 is Raquel Recuero, who shifts our focus to Brazil and its adoption of Twitter and Plurk (another micromessaging tool, but one which has a horizontal rather than vertical logic and enables replies within the message - Google Wave -style, it seems). ...
  4 weeks ago

• Fighting Gender Stereotypes in the Polish Blogosphere

  
  Snurblog blogs — Authority: 103
  Milwaukee. The next speaker at AoIR 2009 is Katarzyna Chmielewska, whose focus is on Polish-language blogs, especially by Polish women. In 2006, an advertising agency created a controversial public service advertisement in Poland that was featuring a hospital delivery room with a birthing scene during which a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Gender and Race Differences in Email Use for Family Purposes?

  
  Snurblog blogs — Authority: 103
  Milwaukee. The next speaker at AoIR 2009 is Briana Fox, whose interest is in how gender and race shape family email networks. Are there perceivable differences in how families email amongst themselves that can be explained through such factors, and in the perception of such networks by families from different ...
  4 weeks ago

• Twitter as a Technology of Immediacy

  
  Snurblog blogs — Authority: 103
  Milwaukee. The first speaker in this final session at AoIR 2009 is Taina Bucher. She argues for an understanding of Twitter as a technology of immediacy - in this case, of immediacy in time, enabling users to cease the time and take action. Our being in time is characterised by the scarcity of time in the 24h ...
  4 weeks ago

• Political Discourse from Truth to Truthiness

  
  Snurblog blogs — Authority: 103
  Milwaukee. The final keynote of AoIR 2009 is by Megan Boler, editor of Digital Media and Democracy: Tactics in Hard Times . She begins by noting the shared sense of aporia at the conference. What do we do as we face the rapidly changing environments of social media - do we feel let down by the Internet, do we ...
  4 weeks ago

• Artificial Artificial Artificial Intelligence in Amazons Mechanical Turk

  
  Snurblog blogs — Authority: 103
  Milwaukee. The final speaker in this session at AoIR 2009 is David Bello, whose focus is on Amazons Mechanical Turk system. This is a form of crowdsourcing, which itself combines the outsourcing of labour to an external provider with community-provided open source labour; crowdsourcing thus exhibits an open quality ...
  4 weeks ago

• How Google Legitimises Its Symbolic Power

  
  Snurblog blogs — Authority: 103
  Milwaukee. The next speaker at AoIR 2009 is Kylie Jarrett, who moves on to problematising Google and its dont be evil motto. There is a sense of disquiet about the absolute symbolic power enjoyed by the company at this point, but there are also many defensive responses as so many people are very attached to it. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Critiquing the eBay Live! Conventions

  
  Snurblog blogs — Authority: 103
  Milwaukee. The next speaker at AoIR 2009 is Michele White, who shifts our interest to eBay and its eBay Live! convention culture. This is an interesting translation of the asynchronous online trading model to a face-to-face venue for expressions of community, and through them comsumers are incorporated into and ...
  4 weeks ago

• Towards Blackberry Capitalism?

  
  Snurblog blogs — Authority: 103
  Milwaukee. The next session at AoIR 2009 starts with Andrew Herman, who introduces the idea of Blackberry capitalism. He notes the shift towards wireless Internet use in recent years; most US Internet users now access the Net wirelessly, for example, and trends are similar in many other countries. There is no ...
  4 weeks ago

• A New Tool for Mapping Communities of Blog Commenters

  
  Snurblog blogs — Authority: 103
  Milwaukee. The final speaker in this session at AoIR 2009 is Anatoliy Gruzd, whose focus is on the communities of blog readers, and how such communities of people discussing shared issues across different blogs may be discovered automatically - that is, how the social networks connecting them may be identified. ...
  4 weeks ago

• Blogging the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina

  
  Snurblog blogs — Authority: 103
  Milwaukee. Daisy Pignetti is the next speaker at AoIR 2009 , and focusses on the post-Hurricane Katrina blogosphere. She calls this Disaster 2.0, with events such as the 11 September 2001 attacks on New York as Disaster 1.0 (a time when many users had substantial difficulty accessing the Internet, and had to employ ...
  4 weeks ago

• Where Did the @ Come From?

  
  Snurblog blogs — Authority: 103
  Milwaukee. The next speaker at this AoIR 2009 blog research session is incoming AoIR Veep Alex Halavais, presenting a paper co-authored with Helen Martin. He begins, though, by referencing previous work of a researcher recording graffiti in New York City: this was done as a way of tracing how people make use of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Bloggers as Opinion Leaders in the Transformation of Israeli Politics

  
  Snurblog blogs — Authority: 103
  Milwaukee. Wow, its the last day of AoIR 2009 already... This morning Im in the session on blogospheres, which begins with Carmel Vaisman. Her interest is in how bloggers influence political contexts, beyond the conventional and somewhat clichéd framing of bloggers as citizen journalists or political activists - ...
  4 weeks ago

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