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1. Ethics and Rule Breaking Among Life Hackers

   I just realized I never posted an abstract or draft on “Ethics and Rule Breaking Among Life Hackers.” This followed Hacking Life because I wanted …

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2. Radway spoke of but failed to recognize parasocial relationships

   In Janice Radway’s classic Reading the Romance of 1984, she referred to the romance-purchasing customers of a small-town bookstore as a “female community … mediated …

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3. AOL Keywords circa 1996

   Have you ever wanted to examine all AOL keywords for its 5,122 public chatrooms circa 1996? Probably not, but I did as part of …

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4. A decade of teaching with Wikipedia

   On my Wikipedia user page, I keep a list of the Online Communities courses I’ve taught. The capstone project for the course is to …

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5. How many Craptains have there been on r/AmItheAsshole?

   On r/AmItheAsshole, you tell your story about an interpersonal conflict, and, after 18 hours, a bot tallies the comments and labels the post as …

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6. Creation and size of advice subreddits

   I’ve been working on a history of advice subreddits and subreddit-plot.py generates a useful bubble plot.

   

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7. Could Wikipedia sue Neri Oxman?

   Bill Ackman is rattling the sabres of his legal team in a 77-page “legal demand.” Bizarrely, he has doubled down on the claims that his …

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8. How fake are Temu reviews?

   If I’m going to buy a cheap Chinese product, why not get it for a fraction of Amazon’s cost? That’s the thought …

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9. Telling others to ask AI

   A topic of my online community course is related to newcomers: is there such a thing as a stupid question? (We discuss RTFM, FAQ slaps …

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