Milioni – Probing the Online Counterpublic Sphere

Milioni, Dimitra. “Probing the Online Counterpublic Sphere:  The Case of Indymedia Athens.” Media Culture Society 32 3 (2009). Print. Arguing against Habermas’ depiction of the online public sphere as a site of ever-increasing fragmentation and segmentation (2006), but with Habermas’ normative ideal of the public sphere in The Structural Transformation, Milioni claims that the communalization of networked digital spaces actually does... Read More

Kobayashi, Ikeda, and Kakuko – Social Capital Online

Kobayashi, Tetsuro, Ken’ichi Ikeda, and Miyata Kakuko. “Social Capital Online:  Collective Use of the Internet and Reciprocity as Lubricants of Democracy.” Information, Communication, and Society 9 5 (2006): 582-611. Print. In this article Kobayashi, Ikeda, and Kakuko argue that the internet promotes social capital in that trust and reciprocity are cultivated through participation in online communities.  The authors also point... Read More

Best and Krueger – Online Interactions and Social Capital: Distinguishing between New and Existing Ties

Best, Samuel and Brian Krueger. “Online Interactions and Social Capital:  Distinguishing between New and Existing Ties.” Social Science Computer Review 24  (2006): 395-410. Print. This is an empirical study conducted by sociologists Samuel J. Best and Brian S. Krueger that measures the degree of online only interactions a group of people have with other people.  To do this, the authors use s probability survey of U.S. residents.  According... Read More

CCR760 – Gurak – Just Notes

I’m not on blogging duties this week, so i’m just posting notes. Gurak – Persuasion and Privacy in Cyberspace Chapter One – Introduction:  Persuasion, Community, and Cyberspace This study deals with two online protests which “dealt with computers, privacy, and the shape of communication technology and society in the 21st century” (1) Self-selection of what to put onto the internet vs. your information being controlled by media... Read More

CCR760 – As We May Have Thought: Dreaming Technological Hypertextuality

Bush, Vannevar. “As We May Think.” The Atlantic Monthly. July 1945. Reprinted in Life magazine September 10, 1945. Main Claims / Executive Summary Before starting, it is interesting to note that Bush’s article was published before and reprinted after the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While acknowledging that professionals involved in life sciences will continue to work toward better understandings and cures... Read More