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Università degli Studi di Torino

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University of Toronto

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Michigan State University

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University of Toronto

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Macquarie University

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Blogging, citizenship and the future of media

by Lois Scheidt, Elijah Wright, and Inna Kouper

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Review Article: Our computers, our selves

New Media & Society, 2007

Electric dreams: Computers in American culture

Electric Dreams turns to the past to trace the cultural history of computers. Ted Friedman charts... more Electric Dreams turns to the past to trace the cultural history of computers. Ted Friedman charts the struggles to define the meanings of these powerful machines over more than a century, from the failure of Charles Babbage's" difference engine" in the nineteenth century to contemporary struggles over file swapping, open source software, and the future of online journalism. To reveal the hopes and fears inspired by computers, Electric Dreams examines a wide range of texts, including films, advertisements, novels, magazines, computer ...

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Language Networks on LiveJournal (PDF)

by Elijah Wright and Sharon Stoerger

Language use in 1,000 randomly-selected and 5,025 crawled LiveJournals was analyzed in order to d... more Language use in 1,000 randomly-selected and 5,025 crawled LiveJournals was analyzed in order to determine the overall language demographics, the robustness of four non-English language networks (Russian, Portuguese, Finnish, and Japanese), and the characteristics of individuals who bridge between different languages on LiveJournal.com. The findings reveal that English dominates globally but not locally, network robustness is determined mostly by population size, and journals that bridge between languages are written by multicultural, multilingual individuals, or else they have broadly accessible content. Implications of these findings for cross-cultural conversation via blogs are considered.

The Social Semantics of LiveJournal FOAF: Structure and Change from 2004 to 2005

International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 2005

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The challenges of FOAF characterization

The Challenges of FOAF Characterization. John C. Paolillo and Elijah Wright School of Library and... more

The social semantics of LiveJournal FOAF: Structure and change from 2004 to 2005

Social Network Analysis methods hold substantial promise for the analysis of Semantic Web metadat... more Social Network Analysis methods hold substantial promise for the analysis of Semantic Web metadata, but considerable work remains to be done to reconcile the methods and findings of Social Network Analysis with the data and inference methods of the Semantic Web. The present study develops a Social Network Analysis for the foaf:knows and foaf:interests relations of a sample of LiveJournal user profiles. The analysis demonstrates that although there are significant and generally stable structural regularities among both types of metadata, they are largely uncorrelated with each other. Also there are large local variations in the clusters obtained that mitigate their reliability for inference. Hence, while information useful for semantic inference over user profiles can be obtained in this way, the distributional nature of user profile data needs closer study.

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Review Article: Our computers, our selves Sherry Turkle, The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005. xi+ 392 pp. ISBN 0262701111, $23.00 (pbk) Ted Friedman, Electric Dreams: Computers in American Culture. New York: New York University Press, 2005. x+ 272 pp. I...

Language Networks on LiveJournal

by Elijah Wright and Inna Kouper

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2007

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Social Network Analysis on the Semantic Web: Techniques and Challenges for Visualizing FOAF

Visualizing the Semantic Web, 2006

Page 247. Chapter 14 Social Network Analysis on the Semantic Web: Techniques and Challenges for V... more

Language networks on LiveJournal

by Elijah Wright and Susan Herring

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iUniverse: A Collaborative Information Universe for IU

submission for I-Light Conference, University Place Conference Center, Indianapolis, IN, December... more

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A Longitudinal Content Analysis of Weblogs: 2003-2004

by Elijah Wright and Lois Scheidt

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Weblogs as a bridging genre

by Elijah Wright and Susan Herring

Information Technology & People, 2005

Weblogs (blogs)-frequently modified web pages in which dated entries are listed in reverse chrono... more Weblogs (blogs)-frequently modified web pages in which dated entries are listed in reverse chronological sequence-are the latest genre of Internet communication to attain widespread popularity, yet their characteristics have not been systematically described. This paper presents the results of a quantitative content analysis of 203 randomly-selected weblogs, comparing the empirically observable features of the corpus with popular claims about the nature of weblogs, and finding them to differ in a number of respects. Notably, blog authors, journalists and scholars alike exaggerate the extent to which blogs are interlinked, interactive, and oriented towards external events, and underestimate the importance of blogs as individualistic, intimate forms of self-expression. Based on the profile generated by the empirical analysis, we consider the likely antecedents of the blog genre, situate it with respect to the dominant forms of digital communication on the Internet today, and suggest possible developments of the use of weblogs over time in response to changes in user behavior, technology, and the broader ecology of Internet genres.

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Common visual design elements of weblogs

Weblogs (blogs) have been heralded as a new space for collaborative creativity, a medium for brea... more Weblogs (blogs) have been heralded as a new space for collaborative creativity, a medium for breaking free of the constraints of previous forms and allowing authors greater access to flexible publishing methods. This generalization seems extreme: genre studies done by Crowston and Williams (2000) and Shepherd and Watters (1998) lend credence to the notion that weblogs are evolutionary descendents of other visual media, such as newspapers and pamphlets.

Bridging the gap: A genre analysis of weblogs

by Elijah Wright and Susan Herring

which dated entries are listed in reverse chronological sequence-are the latest genre of Internet... more which dated entries are listed in reverse chronological sequence-are the latest genre of Internet communication to attain widespread popularity, yet their characteristics have not been systematically described. This paper presents the results of a content analysis of 203 randomly-selected weblogs, comparing the empirically observable features of the corpus with popular claims about the nature of weblogs, and finding them to differ in a number of respects. Notably, blog authors, journalists and scholars alike exaggerate the extent to which blogs are interlinked, interactive, and oriented towards external events, and underestimate the importance of blogs as individualistic, intimate forms of self-expression. Based on the profile generated by the empirical analysis, we consider the likely antecedents of the blog genre, situate it with respect to the dominant forms of digital communication on the Internet today, and advance predictions about its long-term impacts.

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Conversation and Connectivity In the Blogosphere

by Elijah Wright and Susan Herring

blogninja.com

Conversation and Connectivity in the Blogosphere. John Paolillo, Susan C. Herring, Inna Kouper, S... more

Longitudinal Content Analysis of Blogs: 2003-2004

… , citizenship, and the …, 2006

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iUniverse: A Collaborative Information Universe for IU

Abstract submission for I-Light Conference, University Place Conference Center, Indianapolis, IN, December 4th, 2002

The iUni project1 is an exciting collaboration between the School of Library and Information Scie... more The iUni project1 is an exciting collaboration between the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) and University Information Technology Services (UITS), primarily involving the Advanced Visualization Laboratory (AVL)[2]. Initiated in Summer 2001, the project's goal is to provide a 3D web-based collaboration mechanism for all Indiana University (IU) faculty, staff and students on any of the eight IU campuses, located throughout the state of Indiana.

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From the Bottom Up: A Social Network Analysis of the" Blogosphere

by Elijah Wright and Susan Herring

The" blogosphere," or universe of weblogs on the World Wide Web, is often claimed to be... more The" blogosphere," or universe of weblogs on the World Wide Web, is often claimed to be densely interconnected, with bloggers linking to other bloggers in their text entries and in blogrolls located in the sidebars of many blog homepages. Most attempts to characterize this universe take as their point of departure the most popular (ie, the most linked-to) blogs, known among bloggers as the'A-list'. However, recent research has shown that A-list blogs are atypical in a number of respects (Herring, Scheidt, Bonus & Wright, 2004). In this study ...

Blogging, citizenship and the future of media

by Lois Scheidt, Elijah Wright, and Inna Kouper

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Review Article: Our computers, our selves

New Media & Society, 2007

Electric dreams: Computers in American culture

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Language Networks on LiveJournal (PDF)

by Elijah Wright and Sharon Stoerger

The Social Semantics of LiveJournal FOAF: Structure and Change from 2004 to 2005

International Symposium on Wearable Computers, 2005

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The challenges of FOAF characterization

The Challenges of FOAF Characterization. John C. Paolillo and Elijah Wright School of Library and... more

The social semantics of LiveJournal FOAF: Structure and change from 2004 to 2005

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Language Networks on LiveJournal

by Elijah Wright and Inna Kouper

Proceedings of the 40th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2007

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Social Network Analysis on the Semantic Web: Techniques and Challenges for Visualizing FOAF

Visualizing the Semantic Web, 2006

Page 247. Chapter 14 Social Network Analysis on the Semantic Web: Techniques and Challenges for V... more

Language networks on LiveJournal

by Elijah Wright and Susan Herring

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iUniverse: A Collaborative Information Universe for IU

submission for I-Light Conference, University Place Conference Center, Indianapolis, IN, December... more

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A Longitudinal Content Analysis of Weblogs: 2003-2004

by Elijah Wright and Lois Scheidt

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Weblogs as a bridging genre

by Elijah Wright and Susan Herring

Information Technology & People, 2005

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Common visual design elements of weblogs

Bridging the gap: A genre analysis of weblogs

by Elijah Wright and Susan Herring

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Conversation and Connectivity In the Blogosphere

by Elijah Wright and Susan Herring

blogninja.com

Conversation and Connectivity in the Blogosphere. John Paolillo, Susan C. Herring, Inna Kouper, S... more

Longitudinal Content Analysis of Blogs: 2003-2004

… , citizenship, and the …, 2006

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iUniverse: A Collaborative Information Universe for IU

Abstract submission for I-Light Conference, University Place Conference Center, Indianapolis, IN, December 4th, 2002

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From the Bottom Up: A Social Network Analysis of the" Blogosphere

by Elijah Wright and Susan Herring

A longitudinal content analysis of weblogs: 2003-2004

by Elijah Wright and Susan Herring

Blogging, citizenship, and the future of media, 2006

In the past several years, weblogs—frequently modified web pages containing dated entries listed ... more In the past several years, weblogs—frequently modified web pages containing dated entries listed in reverse chronological sequence—have gone from relative obscurity to immense popularity. Weblogs are popular in part because they enable easy, inexpensive self-publication of content for a potentially vast audience on the World Wide Web, while being more flexible and interactive than previous publication formats, print or digital (Herring, Scheidt, Bonus, & Wright, 2005). The rapid efflorescence of the blogosphere—the ...

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From the bottom up: A social network analysis of the "blogosphere"

by Lois Scheidt, Elijah Wright, and Inna Kouper

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