Please distribute widely! CALL FOR PAPERS Special Theme Issue of the Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media "Socially-Mediated Publicness" Guest Editors: - Nancy Baym (University of Kansas) - danah boyd (Microsoft Research) Editor: Zizi Papacharissi Social media call into question conventional understandings of what it means to “be public,” what it means to be “in …
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David Cameron has vowed to do 'whatever it takes' to restore order after the riots: this seems to include blocking access to social networking sites. "Everyone watching these horrific actions will be struck by how they were organized via social media," Cameron said. "And when people are using social media for violence we need to …
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The title of this post is presumptuous, because I haven't written it yet. I have a book contract for my dissertation. Yay! Cheers! What every graduate student dreams of while slaving away over their hot word processor, eyes glazed over as they attempt to wrangle the methods section into submission for the umpteenth time. And …
I'd like to introduce myself as a new RA at Microsoft Research's Social Media Collective. I'll be around for the next year, and hopefully interesting posts and updates will accompany that. I've also added a link to my *new* blog in the sidebar (no posts yet but stay tuned!). Hopefully I'll be using that space …
In the fall, danah boyd and Alice Marwick went into the field to understand teens' privacy attitudes and practices. We've blogged some of our thinking since then but we're currently working on turning our thinking into a full-length article. We are lucky enough to be able to workshop our ideas at an upcoming scholarly meeting …
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