I thought I would share a draft of a new paper; it's still rough and I welcome any and all feedback!
Fake geek girls and contested attention
read moreAbstract: I use the online discourse about "fake geek girls" from 2012-2013 to offer an understanding of identity and boundary policing and ...
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Last week I had an interesting conversation with Noam Cohen from the NYT about Wikipedia vs. The Small Screen.
read moreSome Internet specialists argue that Wikipedia should adjust to a mobile world by harnessing “micro-contributions” like those on Twitter and Facebook. For example, they suggest creating a “like” button similar to ...
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As I continue to think about geekdom, especially in the context of the boundary policing of "fake geek girls," I return to Pierre Bourdieu's notions of field and capital. A field "constitutes a potentially open space of play whose boundaries are dynamic borders which are the stake of struggles ...
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The well-regarded photo-blogger David Hobby (the "Strobist") got fed up with moderating blog comments and invented a way to use Twitter in their stead. Each blog post will have a unique hashtag that people should use in their tweet. He writes:
read moreUsing Twitter for related discussion does several things. First ...
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Nick Bilton's Hatching Twitter tells of four friends who became rivals in the claim for having "founded" Twitter. (A recurring narrative well captured in the 2001 film Startup.com.) Even beyond founding, others can claim to have "invented" something twitter-like before Twitter, including myself!
Unlike the vision of Ev ...
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Later this week I'll be participating on a panel of the New Media in American Literary History Interdisciplinary Symposium. I plan to talk about bibliography and bitrot.
When I began my historical study of Wikipedia I was sad to note that much early material was lost to bit rot ...
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While catching up on podcasts this weekend I was surprised that news of Popular Science "Shutting Off Our Comments" had traveled so far. On September 24, PopSci explained they were disabling comments because trolls and spambots were overwhelming their ability of "fostering lively, intellectual debate" (Labarre2013wws). They justified this decision ...
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Draft: Revenge rating and tweak critique at photo.net
read moreIn today’s world, most anything can be rated, ranked, and liked. flickr (founded in 2004), tumblr (2007), and Instagram (2010) exemplify this Web 2.0 penchant for sharing and evaluation of images among users. Yet, these sites were not the ...
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This week I'm looking forward to Jessica McKellar's visit to Communication in a Digital Age where she'll be explaining How the Internet works.
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