I keep getting wheeled out in front of various audiences to talk about blogging so I figured it was about time I did a bit of digging around to see what academics are saying about it. Here are the gems… Continue Reading
A new study by Jupiter Research, as reported in yesterday’s Guardian, suggests that "bloggers and internet pundits are exerting a "disproportionately large influence" on society…" Ok, we already knew that, but the research is actually quite interesting because it suggests… Continue Reading
Using data from technorati, Ben Fry has created an image showing how the top 50 blogs are linked to each other. For the full size pdf, and accompanying explanation, see the newyorkmetro.com article: I guess it’s probably going to be… Continue Reading
The following entry was written by guest blogger Matthew Allen of the Internet Studies Program, Curtin University of Technology. Matthew has been teaching and researching the Internet since 1997 and was using rudimentary online learning techniques from 1995 onwards. Most… Continue Reading
I’m pleased to announce that Matthew Allen, Associate Professor of Internet Studies at Curtin University has joined the list of guest bloggers. Matthew is President of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), an academic association dedicated to the advancement of… Continue Reading
Each day next week (20-24 March), cybersoc.com will be publishing posts by a series of special guest bloggers to help mark the one year anniversary of cybersoc.com (the blog, not the site which is 10 this year). The guest bloggers… Continue Reading
Shock. Horror. According to Alexis Debat, writing for ABC News in America, al Qaeda have started “using legitimate bulletin boards and Internet sites offering free upload services or connecting through such popular social network sites as Orkut and MySpace.” (link… Continue Reading
This morning I came across two interesting studies on tagging: Folksonomies: Tidying up Tags? By Marieke Guy and Emma Tonkin A social analysis of tagging (or how tagging transforms the solitary browsing experience into a social one) by Rashmi Sinha… Continue Reading
The Pew Internet and American Life Project has published a new paper about the effect of the internet on social ties. In my own MPhil thesis, I looked at the implications of internet use upon one’s friendships and pre-existing communities.… Continue Reading
Howard Rheingold has made the syllabus available for a course on digital journalism that he’ll be teaching at Stanford University. Students will be asked to blog and post or edit a wikipedia entry as part of the assessment – nice… Continue Reading