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Sociology of Online Journals
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| Serial adders |
[08 Jul 2008|03:40pm] |
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Tell me please people, what it is that serial adders do that's so terrible, that they need banning before they've done anything more than add you to their f/list?
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| Rating Communities |
[18 Jun 2008|04:43am] |
First off, I'm like Mozart and Music with my pen to the paper, ya underdig me? I'm unstoppable once I get started. I can write for 5 hours straight, take a nap and come back for more! I've even been published. So, I discovered this online rating community for WRITING ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif) youcantwrite , not icons, or looks, or anything lame like that, but writing, my dream, my PASSION. I checked out a few of the accepted members journals. Most of them pretty interesting (minus 1 for Top Chef passion and minus 2 for what color is my hair today?)
So I apply, expecting to be welcome in. I KNOW i CAN write. You know? But what happens, these little hipster bastards get together and tell me that my writing is no good! They insult my dead dog, tell me I have ADHD, but tell me if I think I can improve to reapply. (this is why im using this journal because im going to reapply and tear them a new one once they accept me. i will reject THEM. i believe no one has done THAT before)
Anyway, I got to thinking that acceptance in a rating community online is just like acceptance into a writers circle in real life. What do you think the importance of rating communities is.
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| LJ Advisory Board elections going on now |
[23 May 2008|03:22pm] |
The elections for the Livejournal Advisory Board are going on now.
The sad (though perhaps unsurprising) part is that the current total vote count is under a tenth of a percent of total active users. Even if you winnow that down to the number of accounts updated in the last seven days, it's under two percent. And the current leader is, to all appearances, a troll who has based his campaign on LOLspeak macros.
Help get the word out. And go vote, so that the users of LiveJournal can have a representative who's actually, you know, articulate. And sane.
(See my journal if you are interested in who I support for the position.)
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| Hello everybody! |
[18 May 2008|02:31pm] |
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Help me please: what distinction between Neighbourhood Groups and Social Networks?
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| I can't handle people disagreeing so I'm gonna silence those voices!!! |
[13 May 2008|09:03pm] |
How about lets talk about the sociology of people who post off-topic rants and petty bullshit in communities where it doesn't belong.
How about lets talk about the sociology of petty wimps and losers who delete other people's comments to their posts when they don't like what the person has to say.
So far the replies I have gotten from ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) aegion are
Their reply was:
Just yours.
But no matter how offensive anyone elses comments are I will not delete them. Only you are going to get your comments deleted.
And I don't care if you complain to a mod and I get banned. It doesn't change the principle of the thing that I got to censor you and delete your comments. I'm also deleting any comments you post to me in other communities as well. :)
Their reply was:
I love it when you comment. It gives me the power to censor and delete you.
And no matter what happens after this, nothing will change the fact that at this moment I deleted your comments and prevented your voice from being heard.
Their reply was:
The only idiot here is you bitch.
I predict you will be murdered in the future.
oh and...comment deleted!
Does that last sound like - OMG - a death threat???
Maybe someone needs to get a little bit of maturity going on.
And where are the mods?
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[08 May 2008|05:03pm] |
Does lj allow communities that promote illegal activities?
I am talking about communities like shoplifting_ru and stuck4stealing which give instructions on how to shoplift.
Why do fanfic communities get suspended but these don't?
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[21 Apr 2008|12:55pm] |
Hi! I'm excited to have found this community because I'm currently working on an undergraduate thesis in Psychology on Motivations of Blogging of Adolescents.
I'm looking at motivation in terms of psychological concepts and theories such as Maslow's theory of motivation and Murray. I was wondering if anyone knows of any related literature...journal articles, websites. Anything would be great and a huge help. :)
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| help! |
[24 Jan 2008|01:41pm] |
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boys and girls! if you know some new social science researches about communication in internet. could you prompt me, please. something like N. Luhman
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| Социальная информатика. |
[17 Sep 2007|07:25am] |
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Коллеги, подскажите, кто знает, литературу об Интернете, его развитии и влиянии на общество. Собираю материал для курсовой.
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I've had friends over time who will send an email to update everyone as to what is going on. It is like a newsletter and given that it is sent to approximately 50 recipients isn't "personalised".
I'm curious, if you reasonably regularly received these as the only form of contact with this person, generally speaking would you have more, less or the same inclination to reply than if it was a personalised email?
Poll #1033134
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All Speaking generally, in the above example would you be
(X-Posted to my LJ)
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| The Cult of the Amateur |
[29 Jun 2007|04:40pm] |
The Roar of the Herd is Deafening on the Web
I saw this book review today (haven't read the book). Judging from the description and quotes, the author seems narrow-minded and elitist. It's thought-provoking, though.
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| Public and Private in the Blogosphere |
[29 Jun 2007|12:55pm] |
Hi all,
I'm writing my dissertation on changing contemporary conceptions of public and private, particularly among bloggers. Chances are if you're reading this, you fall into that category.
And so I would like to invite you to complete my survey about bloggers' views of public and private. You can find the survey here - it should take you less than 30 minutes to complete.
I'm also relying on a snowball sample to get this out there, so please pass it on to any other bloggers who might be interested. HTML to cut & paste is below.
<a href=”http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=YWpihoh7RtF_2fL0QyOU8IjQ_3d_3d”>Bloggers, stand up and be counted! Take the “Public and Private in the Blogosphere” Survey!</a>
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| MySpace as an agent of Social Darwinism |
[18 Jun 2007|09:59am] |
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The implications and issues behind MySpace's decision to cooperate with law enforcement by identifying registered sex offenders who create MySpace profiles are interesting. My initial, knee-jerk-liberal reaction is that privacy wins out here. There are so many people who are listed on "registered sex offender" lists that have no business being there that wholesale cross-referencing scares me. But then there's the notion of Social Darwinism. MySpace identifies sex offenders to Texas, and look what happens: In Texas, a total of seven convicted sex offenders have been taken into custody. Six were registered sex offenders, arrested for parole violation. All six had MySpace profiles, despite the terms of their probation barring them from using the internet.
A seventh man was arrested for failing to register as an offender after his profile turned up on the social networking site. None of the six men arrested has been charged with any new sexual offences, but between them have convictions ranging from aggravated sexual assault, to molestation of a child, and indecency with a child by exposure. The youngest victim was just four. OK, if cross-referencing such as this produces lists of parole and probation violators, I can justify it as a way to help rid the world of Teh Stupid. We're not talking about prostitutes who end up "registered" because they were arrested plying their trade; these people have no business trolling through a teen-rich site such as MySpace. Staying off the internets was part of their parole/probation and they still go out there. One of the issues victims' rights advocates push strongly is the extremely high rate of recividism amongst sexual predators. As a society, we have regularly debated the notion of trying to prevent this recividism, and ofttimes extreme measures (extending prison sentences, confining sex offenders for "mental health reasons," etc. If MySpace's cooperation removes the dumbest of this group from society, maybe I'm willing to relax my rigid privacy stance. [YatPundit]
(YatPundit entry)
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| Honours Year Project [on Blogging] - Copyrights Issue Advice |
[16 Jun 2007|07:04pm] |
Hi, okay I remembered that all Honours Year Project students were supposed to sign a piece of document WRT their HYP before they are allowed to graduate. Problem is I forgot what the document says (since it was more than 1 yr ago since I signed up). Do all the rights WRT your HYP belong to the university?
I am asking this because I plan to commercialize my work now. I'm quite confused as to what rights I have signed away as a result of "being able to graduate" (according to my university, if you don't sign, you can't graduate). Anyway, they have adapted my work and am publishing it into a book, together with other worthy theses (The problem is I don't get any royalties). The ppl compiling the book gets the royalties. Another question: Are they allowed to do that?
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| Bloggers vs. Reporters |
[02 Jun 2007|12:48pm] |
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Have people on LiveJournal suddenly lost the ability to tell the difference between actual news, facts, opinion, rumor, and wild-ass speculation over the past 48 hours? I don't know about you, but I've witnessed some stellar examples of why amateur bloggers should never be confused with real investigative reporters, such as Woodward and Bernstein, and chances are that you have too. Or am I completely off base here?
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| Five articles |
[31 May 2007|09:41pm] |
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Could you, please, list five reviews or articles which introduce and describe blog sociology? I mean good and excellent papers written by modern scientists.
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| research into blogging and other online comm formats of potential counselling tools? |
[25 May 2007|10:59am] |
online blogging isn't new, nor are interactive online communities, not by a long shot. some people blog for personal cathartic reasons, knowing there's an audience of some kind (unless you write strictly private entries, then the assumption is, someone other than you is reading). arguably, they do so with an *expectation* for some kind of interactive feedback (such as external validation, information gathering, additional perspective, and so on).
i personally write a lot about relationships, intimacy, and interpersonal communication. this is all material i've learned from hard experience, professional counselling, and personal reading on topics of psychology and spirituality; and while i write from the vulnerable personal perspective of my own experiences, i'm actively and consciously translating those experiences and what i've learned from and about them for a wider general audience. i'm not a professional counsellor yet (however often it looks like i play one on PC, but i am starting my Masters in counselling in september, with the internship to follow); i am, however, starting to wonder about the developments personal counselling might take in the future with the profusion of electronic tools for communications.
does anyone know of any research done in the realm of psychological counselling using these online communications tools? any studies done on the nature of blogging as a potential counselling tool, or the differences in effectiveness between real-time, in-person sessions with a counsellor versus sessions that take place in chat-only formats and/or video-conference formats? how much of the "counselling experience" is dependant on that physical sharing of space, how much information can be gained or lost by adding the distance or filtering through electronics instead of corporeal encounters?
we all know that chat-only communications are rife with "lost signal" when there's no vocal tone or body language to back up the words, but is there a place in modern/future psychological counselling for using it as a tool? does Skype, for example, have a place for connecting counsellors with clients all over the world, and doing so *effectively*?
what are the principle risks in trying to develop counsellor-client relationships electronically?
what are the potential or likeliest benefits?
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| Tracking transience |
[23 May 2007|12:07pm] |
An FBI Target Puts His Whole Life Online
"Elahi's site is the perfect alibi. Or an audacious art project. Or both. The Bangladeshi-born American says the US government mistakenly listed him on its terrorist watch list — and once you're on, it's hard to get off. To convince the Feds of his innocence, Elahi has made his life an open book. Whenever they want, officials can go to his site and see where he is and what he's doing..."
"...his students get it immediately. They've grown up spilling their guts online — posting Flickr photo sets and confessing secrets on MySpace. He figures the day is coming when so many people shove so much personal data online that it will put Big Brother out of business."
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