Then the Internet arrived, and the civic discourse shifted, as readers turned to local discussion boards, political blogs and community e-mail lists to talk about the issues affecting them. The newspaper-sanctioned forum grew up, moved out, and became a t
Heute können laut Redaktionsleiter Jörg Sadrozinski mehr als die Hälfte der Beiträge nicht veröffentlicht werden, weil Sie gegen diese neuen Forenrichtlinien verstoßen (Quelle). Früher posteten die Betreiber gelegentlich eine Statistik, nach der di
But Digg has also demonstrated that a completely open network will be subject to so much gaming and manipulating that it’s not possible to maintain that openness.
According to a Wired report, the storage will be free to all scientists, access to the data will be free for all and the new site will have YouTube-style annotating and commenting features.
Aus meiner Sicht ist diese Abwägung zwischen Meinungsfreiheit und Ehrschutz unverhältnismäßig, denn aus verschiedenen Gründen ist die Gefahr von Ehrverletzungen in Internet-Kommentaren als sehr gering einzuschätzen
The irony is that Web 2.0 has been heralded as the dawn of a new era of community and togetherness. Through the financial eyes of a venture capitalist, this may appear to be true. For the rest of us, what this means is that community is now available to m
a small wiki has different priorities and a different structure, and it needs different rules. “They do it this way on Wikipedia” is not a good way to run a small wiki.
It is argued that the transformations the Web is subject to are not driven by new technologies but by a fundamental mind shift that encourages individuals to take part in developing new structures and content. The evolving services and technologies encour
A national phone survey of bloggers finds that most are focused on describing their personal experiences to a relatively small audience of readers and that only a small proportion focus their coverage on politics, media, government, or technology.
This paper reports initial findings from a study that used quantitative and qualitative research methods and custom–built software to investigate online economies of reputation and user practices in online product reviews at several leading e–commerce
This paper presents the results of a survey on the use of the Internet by university-based scholars to contact unknown peers. These contacts are considered as examples of the activation of “latent ties” which are said to exist within communities with
The idea is that we will lead the transformation of the Web into a social Web," Rheingold says. Electric Minds is one-stop shopping for netniks who just like to commune--especially about the impact of technology on life.
Das kulturwissenschaftliche Portal GRAECULUS ist Experimentierfeld, aktueller Forschungsstand, Ergebnissicherung, Beobachtungs- und Selbstbeobachtungsplattform, Beratungsdienstleister und Service Provider in einem. Es umfasst aktuell die Mailing-Liste e-g
In our “Entrepreneurship and New Media” lab project teams of students worked with two start-up companies. The student teams were connected to each other and to their supervisors in academia and practice through a community system. We present a first q
The monitoring tools allow the measurement, analysis and simulation of community aspects with methods from the semantic web, information retrieval & visualization, data/text/media mining, geospatial database querying, social network analysis, transcriptiv