A short abstract of my research on feedback and comment:

Comment Culture: Feedback, ratings, and reviews in the age of the Web

Our world today …

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Last week I enjoyed ROFLCon here in Cambridge. In particular, Zittrain’s talk was enjoyable as always (i.e., interesting and funny) and the Fangirl …

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With Zotero and Mendeley providing excellent web-centric bibliographic tools, I don’t imagine I’ll ever get converts to Thunderdell. Still, it and BusySponge are …

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The recent blowup about what Ethan Zuckerman calls attention ethics surprises me a little, but not a lot. A comment by Ito Kagehisa at Boing …

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This fall, I’m excited to finally teach a class focused completely on Wikipedia! Come registration, interested Northeastern students should look for COMM4918.

COMM 4918 …

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The central thesis of David Weinberger’s Too big to know: Rethinking Knowledge Now That Facts are The Facts, Experts are Everywhere, and The Smartest …

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Sometimes things happen in the world that researchers could never make happen on there own, but when it does happen, much can be learned. For …

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This weekend I placed last semester’s New Media Culture course up at Github under a CC license; it includes the source files for the …

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When people choose infocide they are doing two things: they are leaving and they are taking their stuff (information) with them when they go. (Hence …

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Even when one puts aside mediated or facilitated death, terms related to infocide might speak of (a) attention seeking, (b) getting oneself banned (intentionally or …

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