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NEW BOOK on digital technology, ideology, and the new capitalism
by Eran Fisher 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

NEW BOOK from Palgrave: Media and New Capitalism in the Digital Age: The Spirit of Networks<http://www.amazon.com/Media-New-Capitalism-Digital-Age/dp/0230616070> / Eran Fisher (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010) This book explores the new terrain of network capitalism through the transformations of the discourse on technology. Rather than viewing such discourse as either a true or false reflection of reality, Fisher evaluates the ideological role that technology discourse plays in the legitimation of a new form of capitalism. Based on an extensive empirical analysis, the book argues that contemporary technology discourse at one and the same time promises more personal empowerment through network technology and legitimates a more privatized, flexible, and precarious economic constellations. Contrary to the prevailing assumption that sees network technology as liberating from the rigidity and pitfalls of a stifling, Fordist capitalism, the book offers a theoretical framework which sees contemporary technology discourse as an ideology that legitimates the economic, social, and political arrangements of the new capitalism. *Praise* “Fisher’s brilliant book provides cogent reasons why we should be skeptical about laptop capitalism and its fluidity and instantaneity of communication…Fisher helps us understand the age of digitality as, above all, capitalist.” --Ben Agger, Professor of Sociology and Humanities, University of Texas at Arlington “This carefully researched and skillfully written guide to the networked world doesn’t just demolish the dreamy visions of Utopia 2.0. It provides precisely the comprehensive analysis we need to understand their power and persistence.” --Vincent Mosco, Canada Research Chair in Communication and Society, Queen’s University, Canada “This is an audacious systematic ideology-critique of digital capitalism…It should be placed on your shelf with Castells's book on informational capitalism, with Dyer-Witheford's on cyber-Marxism or with Mosco's on the digital sublime.” --Uri Ram, Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben Gurion University, Israel *Table of contents* Introduction Technology discourse and capitalist legitimation PART I Ch. 1 Capitalism, technology, and the digital discourse Ch. 2 Contemporary technology discourse PART II Ch. 3 Network market Ch. 4 Network work Ch. 5 Network production Ch. 6 Network human PART III Ch. 7 Network cosmology and the exhaustion of critique Ch. 8 Networks as the techno-political culture of post-Fordism *About the author* Eran Fisher is Lecturer at the College of Management – Academic Studies, and at the Interdisciplinary Center in Israel. He completed his PhD in the Department of Sociology at the New School for Social Research in New York in 2008. He writes on Critical Social Theory, technology, and capitalism, and the intersection of capitalism and network technology in such publications as the *European Journal of Social Theory*, *Fast Capitalism*, and *Working USA: The Journal of Labor and Society*. Media and New Capitalism in the Digital Age: The Spirit of Networks<http://www.amazon.com/Media-New-Capitalism-Digital-Age/dp/0230616070>(Palgrave, 2010)

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Fwd: Special Issue "Participation in Online Learning Communities"
by Caroline Haythornthwaite 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

FYI. >---- Original message ---- >>Date: Sat, 3 Apr 2010 17:01:22 +0200 >>From: Jaldemark Jimmy <Jimmy.Jaldemark(a)miun.se> >>Subject: Special Issue "Participation in Online Learning Communities" >> >>I trust this e-mail finds you well! You are receiving this e-mail because of your expertise and interest in participation in learning communities and their applications in online education. Therefore, I would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing your expertise to a special issue of International Journal of Web Based Communities edited by, Dr. Jimmy Jaldemark, Mid Sweden University, Sweden, entitled Participation in Online Learning Communities. >> >>Participation in educational communities may be conceptualised in different ways. One common way is to discuss participation in terms of agents interacting with the features of the surrounding environment. Such conceptualisations build on dualistic foundations where mind, body and environment are discussed as being separated from each other. In these conceptualisations analyses of online participation deemphasises influences on agents participation from for example cultural, historical, or physical aspects. Another way is to conceptualise agent’s participation in terms of transactions that embrace agents, the environment and features involved in human action. Such conceptualisations treat participation of human beings and the features involved in human action as being inseparable from the surrounding environment. Understanding of participation in online learning communities will be different depending on its conceptualisation. Moreover the consequences for designing online education will be different depending on how human action is conceptualised. Subsequently, how we conceptualise human action will affect the conditions for agents’ participation in online learning communities >> >>Traditionally, much of the published research on online participation has been built on interactional dualistic foundations. However, the concept online learning community in itself is a transactional conceptualisation of participation. While this concept build on an analysis of the intersection between learning, online, and participation in a community of other agents. Research is needed that challenges the prevailing interactional paradigm of online participation. This research should analyse participation in terms of intersections of human action. >> >>This special issue aims to gather a collection of high quality papers that reflect transactional analysis of participation in educational communities. Papers that focus on intersections of participation in online learning communities are welcome. >> >>Participation in an educational community is a social interplay between the agents that belongs to the particular community. Agents participate in such communities by using different tools: tools that have cultural, historical, physical, psychological, and social aspects. Moreover, tools mediate their participation and make it possible for them to create a shared meaning of their participation. This understanding of participation builds on a transactional analysis where features such as actions, agents, tools and the community is discussed in terms of being inseparable from each other. Thus, from a transactional analysis, the participation of the agents is only understandable in the intersections of such features. Agents’ tool-mediated online participation in educational communities could therefore be discussed in terms of participation in an online learning community. Overall, such transactional analyses based on different intersections could widen understanding of participation in educational communities. This special issue calls for papers that analyse participation in educational communities in different intersections. >> >>Contributions are expected to answer some of the following questions (among others): >> >>• How could intersections of participation in online learning communities be classified? >>• What types of intersections could improve our understanding of participation in online learning communities >>• What types of intersection are of special interest for the educational domain? >>• How could different intersections influence the design of education? >>• What approaches are suitable for transactional analyses of participation in educational communities >> >>Suitable topics include but are not limited to: >> >>• The role of socio-political classifications such as age, class ethnicity, gender >>• Affordances and constraints of different agents in educational communities >>• The circumstances for participation >>• Cultural analysis >>• The impact of different tools >>• Educational design approaches >>• Analysis of educational settings >>• Evaluations of the use different intersections >> >>Submission Procedure >>Should you accept this invitation, I would like to kindly ask that you, on or before the 15th of June, 2010 submit an extended abstract (1-2 pages) explaining the mission and concerns of the proposed article. Authors of accepted proposals will be notified by the 1st of July, 2010 about the status of their proposals and sent guidelines. Full papers are expected to be submitted by the 1st of October 2010. All submitted papers will be reviewed on a double-blind review basis. >> >>If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact me. I appreciate your consideration of this invitation and hope to hear from you soon! >> >>Best wishes, >> >>Dr. Jimmy Jaldemark >>Department of Education >>Mid Sweden University, Sweden >>S-871 88 Härnösand, Sweden >>jimmy.jaldemark(a)miun.se

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Advertisement: Digital Natives Research Coordinator @ CIS
by Nishant Shah 06 Apr '10

06 Apr '10

Dear All, For the next step of Digital Natives activities at the Centre for Internet and Society, we are looking for a Digital Natives Research Coordinator. I am attaching the advertisement for it here and hope that you will be able to circulate widely and/or also send in suggestions for candidates you think might be appropriate for the post. Warmly Nishant *Digital Natives Research Project Coordinator – Job Advertisement* The Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore, in collaboration with Hivos Netherlands, is looking for a Research Project Coordinator to help develop a knowledge network and coordinate international workshops for the project “Digital Natives with a Cause?” The job profile is as follows: 1. Coordinating international workshops in liaison with regional partners to produce content for a book mapping technology mediated interventions by young people in different parts of the world. 2. Developing a knowledge network of stakeholders in emerging Information Societies in the Global South, to document debates, discussions and ideas in the field of Digital Natives. 3. Working closely with academic researchers, scholars, and practitioners in the development sector to develop content for an international website on Digital Natives. 4. Supervise and coordinate the production of the Digital Natives research in print and digital content. 5. Strategise and execute dissemination, design and collaboration strategies for developing the Digital Natives research areas. 6. Supervising intellectual and financial logistics for the project. The candidate should be below 35 years of age and have fluent familiarity with digital platforms, trends, fashions and activities. Excellent communication and planning skills and the ability to work sensitively with partners in different countries and contexts are expected. Candidates with an advanced degree in Sociology, Culture Studies, Communication and Management, with experience in international programme/project management within the development sector or those working in the field of youth-politics/youth-technology with experience in international collaborative projects will be given preference. The job is based in Bangalore but requires a fair amount of international travel for logistical and substantial coordination. The position will open in May and is full-time. The position will be supported by two Project Associates who shall be selected in consultation with the Research Project Coordinator. Consolidated consultation fees will be in the range of 34,000 – 45,000 Rupees per month commensurate with experience. International travel and per diem will be provided based on established CIS standards. Send in applications in SOFT COPY ONLY, along with an updated CV and samples of writing or project deliverables to nishant(a)cis-india.org by the 25th of April 2010. The Digital Natives with a Cause? Report is available on the CIS website for further reference at http://www.cis-india.org/publications/cis/nishant/dnrep.pdf/view -- Nishant Shah Director - Research Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore Asia Awards Fellow, 2008-09 Doctoral Student, CSCS Phone: +91-(0)-9740074884 -- Nishant Shah Doctoral Candidate, CSCS, Bangalore. Director (Research), Centre for Internet and Society,( www.cis-india.org ) Asia Awards Fellow, 2008-09 # 00-91-9740074884 -- Nishant Shah Doctoral Candidate, CSCS, Bangalore. Director (Research), Centre for Internet and Society,( www.cis-india.org ) Asia Awards Fellow, 2008-09 # 00-91-9740074884

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The Communication Review Call for Papers: “Twitter Revolutions? Addressing Social Media and Dissent”
by Tatiana Omeltchenko 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

The Communication Review special issue: “Twitter Revolutions? Addressing Social Media and Dissent” Volume 14, Issue 2 (2011) Guest Editor: Christian Christensen, Uppsala University, Sweden Contact Christian Christensen, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Media & Communication Studies Department of Informatics and Media Uppsala University, Sweden christian.christensen(a)im.uu.se “The Internet, YouTube, Twitter and Facebook have reconstituted, especially among young people, how social relationships are constructed and how communication is produced, mediated, and received. They have also ushered in a new regime of visual imagery in which screen culture creates spectacular events just as much as they record them. Under such circumstances, state power becomes more porous and less controlled (…) Text messaging, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the Internet have given rise to a reservoir of political energy that posits a new relationship between the new media technologies, politics and public life (…) State power no longer has a hold on information, at least not the way it did before the emergence of the new media with its ability to reconfigure public exchange and social relations while constituting a new sphere of politics.” (Giroux, 2009) Recent events in Iran – and in other locations such as Moldova, Georgia, Egypt, Palestine and China – have stimulated a great deal of discussion on the use(s) of social media for the purposes of political dissent and activist organization, as well as in impacting public opinion on matters of national and international security. What the Iranian case has added to the discussion – crystallized in the above quote from Giroux – is supposed evidence of the powerful role of social networking tools such as Facebook, Twitter and YouTube in facilitating dissent during times of conflict and suppression. However, the aftermath of the June 2009 Iranian elections also provided ample evidence of the inverse: how the use of social media by anti-government activists, as well as access to highly sophisticated monitoring hardware and software on the part of the Iranian authorities, rationalized processes of state surveillance and repression. A great deal of discourse – often revolving around sexy phrases such as “Twitter Revolutions” or “The YouTube War” – has posited the central role of technology in anti-government protests or acts of dissent, only for critical questions to be raised shortly afterward regarding the actual level of use and impact of such technologies. Welcoming a variety of methodological, theoretical and disciplinary perspectives, the purpose of this special issue of The Communication Review will be to publish papers which: 1. address the relationship between social media, dissent and political action from a variety of (critical) perspectives, avoiding excessively techno-deterministic and/or techno-utopian frameworks; 2. focus upon the use of newer forms of social media (for example, Twitter, Flickr and YouTube); and, 3. place particular emphasis on research addressing the use of social media in relation to dissent and/or political action from a diversity of national/regional contexts. Deadlines • Deadline for extended proposal submission: June 1, 2010 • Notification of proposals selected for full paper submission: June 30, 2010 • Deadline for full paper submission (selected proposals only): November 1, 2010 Proposal process Authors are asked to submit an extended paper proposal of approximately 750 words to Christian Christensen (christian.christensen(a)im.uu.se) by June 1, 2010. The proposal should address the main conceptual, theoretical and methodological underpinnings of the article, as well as what the piece will add to our understanding of the relationship between social media and dissent/political action. The proposal should be sent as a two page Word document: (1) a cover page with paper title, name, professional rank, institutional affiliation and contact information, and (2), the proposal on the following page(s), with no indication as to author identity/identities or affiliation(s). Proposals will be reviewed and a select number of authors will be asked, on the basis of their proposals, to submit full papers. The full papers of approximately 7000-8000 words will be due on November 1, 2010. Please note that a request to submit a full paper is not a guarantee that the full version will be published. All full papers will go through peer-review, and it is on the basis of these reviews that the articles to be published in the special issue will be selected. For further information regarding The Communication Review, please see: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713456253~db=all -- The Communication Review A Quarterly Publication by Taylor&Francis University of Virginia 401 Cabell Hall, PO Box 400866 Charlottesville, VA 22904-4866 Phone: 434-243-4330 Fax: 434-243-8869 http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~content=t713456253~db=all

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Fwd: <nettime> How you can help the bang.Lab and EDT
by jeremy hunsinger 05 Apr '10

05 Apr '10

from nettime. banglab is related to the electronic disturbance theater. > > > Please pass this on! > > http://bang.calit2.net/2010/04/how-you-can-help-the-bang-lab-and-edt/ > > There are two main ways you can show support at this time. Thank you all > for the signatures! The showing of support from around the world will > surely help our case and hopefully demonstrate to the UCOP how difficult > it is going to be for them to continue this repression of us. > > Now, here's what you can do to help: > > 1. Write a letter expressing your concerns about this issue, supporting > our research, calling for an end to the investigations and an end to the > harassment of Ricardo Dominguez and bang.lab/EDT members to: > > "Kester, Grant" <gkester(a)ucsd.edu>, "Larsen, Kristina" <klarsen(a)ucsd.edu>, > "Lerer, Seth" <slerer(a)ucsd.edu>, "Lawrence.Pitts(a)ucop.edu" > <Lawrence.Pitts(a)ucop.edu>, "Rosen, Amy" <arosen(a)ucsd.edu>, "SVC Academic > Affairs" <SVCAA(a)ucsd.edu>, "Ricardo Dominguez" <rrdominguez(a)ucsd.edu> > > Please send your letters by April 7th, 2010! > > 2. Please come to UCSD on April 8th at 10:30am and show your support with > a rally outside of the meeting between Ricardo Dominguez and the Vice > Chancellor. As of now, we think the meeting will be in Grant Kester's > office, Mandevilla 209, on the 2nd floor. A map to the Mandeville building > is here: http://visarts.ucsd.edu/node/view/495/ The vice-chancellor needs > to know how broad and determined the support for Ricardo is! Let's fill > the courtyard, the stairs and the first floor open area! Please come and > bring friends! The Vice Chancellor is pushing to have the meeting at his > office on North Torrey Pines road, so please check back at > http://bang.calit2.net for updates on April 7th! > > More background information about what this is all about here: > > http://bang.calit2.net/2010/03/bang-lab-edt-update-call-for-accountability-… > > Thank you for your support, > > micha cárdenas, b.a.n.g. lab member and Lecturer in Visual Arts > > > > -- > micha cárdenas > > Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego > Artist/Researcher, Experimental Game Lab, http://experimentalgamelab.net > Calit2 Researcher, http://bang.calit2.net > > blog: http://transreal.org > > > > > -- > micha cárdenas / azdel slade > > Lecturer, Visual Arts Department, University of California, San Diego > Artist/Researcher, Experimental Game Lab, http://experimentalgamelab.net > Calit2 Researcher, http://bang.calit2.net > > blog: http://transreal.org > > > > jeremy hunsinger Center for Digital Discourse and Culture Virginia Tech Information Ethics Fellow, Center for Information Policy Research, School of Information Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (www.cipr.uwm.edu) () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail /\ - against microsoft attachments http://www.aoir.org The Association of Internet Researchers http://www.stswiki.org/ stswiki http://transdisciplinarystudies.tmttlt.com/ Transdisciplinary Studies:the book series

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CFP - Continuum Special Edition: "Mediated Youth Cultures"
by Brady Robards 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

(Please distribute widely! Feel free to contact me should you have any questions.) ---------- Call for Papers: "Mediated Youth Cultures" A special issue of Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies (ISSN: 1030-4312) Abstracts due May 14 Guest Editors: Andy Bennett & Brady Robards (Griffith University, Australia) Conventionally speaking, the study of youth cultures and their associated practices has been focused around the notion of the youth cultural group as a locally situated, physical entity. In recent years, however, research has pointed to the impact of digital media technologies on young people, their cultural practices and forms of interaction. In particular, it has been noted how more recently introduced communication technologies, notably the internet and the mobile phone, have opened up new, often ‘virtual’ spheres of interaction between young people. This in turn begs new questions about the nature of youth culture in the early 21st century. This special edition of Continuum will consider the impact of new communication technologies on youth culture and the way the latter have altered and enhanced the forms of interaction underpinning youth cultural practice. Papers are being sought in the following areas: - Mediated youth identities - Engagement with online social spaces (social network(ing) sites, online games and other virtual environments) - Youth engagement with peer-to-peer file sharing - ‘Trans-local’ youth cultural formations - Access to sport and extreme sport (Roller Derby, breakdancing, martial-arts, etc.) - Risk-taking behaviour (chemical cultures, piracy, etc.) Abstracts (of approx. 200-300 words) should be submitted to b.robards(a)griffith.edu.au no later than 14th May 2010. Authors are invited to contact Andy Bennett (a.bennett(a)griffith.edu.au) to discuss their approach in advance of submitting abstracts. Successful authors will be asked to submit a full paper, which will be subject to a blind refereeing process.

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NEW BOOK: Letters, Postcards, Email: Technologies of presence
by belinda＠senet.com.au 04 Apr '10

04 Apr '10

Announcing a new book from Routledge: Esther Milne, Letters, Postcards, Email: Technologies of Presence (Routledge, 2010). http://www.routledge.com/books/Letters-Postcards-Email-isbn9780415993289 Contemporary accounts of the impact of electronic, digitally networked cultures often construct an apocalyptic narrative of decisive shifts and abrupt breaks: the new technology arrives, it seems, out of nowhere, sweeping away the old and ushering in the new. In response to such accounts, Letters, Postcards, Email: Technologies of Presence argues that the relation between old and new communication systems is more complex than allowed in current media theory. Narratives of change are dramatically complicated by the striking continuities between different communication systems. In this original study, Esther Milne focuses on one of these continuities, specifically a fantasy of presence that, she argues, pervades the socio-technical representations of letters, postcards and emails. What are the enabling conditions for presence to function as a technological and rhetorical strategy across distributed communication platforms? To address this question Milne explores historically the symbolic and material representations of presence through three media sites: a networked postal community of nineteenth-century letter writers; postcard correspondence of First World War soldiers; and a contemporary email discussion list. Although a number of writers have productively historicised the socio-critical formulations of presence, telepresence and co-presence, these phenomena have usually been confined to representations within electronic media. (eg Coyne, 2001; Glotz et al, 2005; Goldberg 2000; Hjorth, 2005, 2007; Ito, 2005; Lombard and Ditton, 1997; Mitchell, 1999; Murphy, 2000; Ryan, 1999; Sconce, 2000; Sheridan, 1992; Sobchack, 1994). What remains under-examined is the extent to which older technologies, such as the postal service, also enable an experience of intimacy, immediacy, immersion and presence. Furthermore, when epistolary scholars have investigated the production of presence through literary or aesthetic formations, they have limited the focus to a discrete site: either the letter as a ‘real’, historical artefact (eg Decker, 1998) or the letter’s representational deployment through fiction and art (eg Kauffman, 1992) . In contrast, Milne traces the affective configuration of presence through empirical data; material bases; and rhetorical structures, to demonstrate the interrelation between imagined presence and notions of intimacy, privacy and disembodiment. Although the correspondents of letters, postcards and emails are not, usually, present to one another as they write and read their exchanges, this does not necessarily inhibit affective communication. Indeed, this study demonstrates how physical absence may, in some instances, provide correspondents with intense intimacy and a spiritual, almost telepathic, sense of the other’s presence. While corresponding by letter, postcard or email, readers construe an imaginary, incorporeal body for their correspondents that, in turn, reworks their interlocutor’s self-presentation. In this regard the fantasy of presence reveals a key paradox of cultural communication, namely that material signifiers can be used to produce the experience of incorporeal presence. Contents: List of Figures Acknowledgments Introduction 1: "The Conscious Presence of a Central Intellect": British Postal History 2: "The simple transcripts of natural feeling": Signifiers of Presence in Epistolary Practice 3: "Ghosts of all my impertinent letters": Presence in Crisis 4: "The Self-conscious air of the reproduced": Postcard History 5: "A photo of the ship that I am now on": Signifiers of Presence, Intimacy and Privacy in Postcard Correspondence 6: A Brief History of Electronic Mail 7: "In my sickness": Constructing Presence on the Cybermind Discussion Group Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index About the Author: Esther Milne teaches in the Department of Media and Communications, Faculty of Life and Social Sciences, Swinburne University, Melbourne, Australia. She researches the history of networked postal communication systems and celebrity production within the socio-regulatory contexts of law. http://www.routledge.com/books/Letters-Postcards-Email-isbn9780415993289 bit.ly/cOMdEh

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thanks Rosa, I'm back to myself
by Barry Wellman 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Thanks Rosa, I was a co-author of that Pew paper. The reminder is useful, though. It IS a nice paper, altho doesn't have the granularity I was hoping for. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________

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Re: [Air-L] Air-L Digest, Vol 69, Issue 2
by Rosa Mikeal Martey 03 Apr '10

03 Apr '10

Greetings: I've been a lurker for too long, and I happen to have a handy starting point for Barry Wellman's question about who helps whom: Pew did a study of "social ties" and internet use where the break down the people, medium, and type of support (e.g., help when someone is sick, help finding a job, help fixing the house) people get. Like your 1990 paper, it's using the Granovetter weak ties framework. it's a good place to see some simple trends as related to internet use: (although it doesn't have as conceptually relevant categories as your paper - this study only uses rather specific activities) http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2006/The-Strength-of-Internet-Ties/01-Su… > > In 1990, Scot Wortley and I published "Different Strokes from Different > Folks" in the AmJSoc. Nice paper, showing that different peeps gave > different types of help. For example, parents gave financial aid; friends > gave sociability. > > I'm wondering if anyone has done similar research in the Internet age, > that would also build media in. For ex, emotional support is easier to > give online than material aid. And perhaps it is time online that is the > key, rather than role type (in 1990, all we had was phone vs F2f). > > If you have done such research, or know of some, I Urgently need some > leads. Already published stuff would be great, because it's more > cite-able, but if you have some working papers, like to hear about that > too. > > Telling me today would be wonderful. > > Happy Pesach to All, > Barry Wellman > _______________________________________________________________________ > > S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director > Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 > University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman > http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 > Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php > _______________________________________________________________________

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Differentiated Support in the Internet Age
by Barry Wellman 02 Apr '10

02 Apr '10

In 1990, Scot Wortley and I published "Different Strokes from Different Folks" in the AmJSoc. Nice paper, showing that different peeps gave different types of help. For example, parents gave financial aid; friends gave sociability. I'm wondering if anyone has done similar research in the Internet age, that would also build media in. For ex, emotional support is easier to give online than material aid. And perhaps it is time online that is the key, rather than role type (in 1990, all we had was phone vs F2f). If you have done such research, or know of some, I Urgently need some leads. Already published stuff would be great, because it's more cite-able, but if you have some working papers, like to hear about that too. Telling me today would be wonderful. Happy Pesach to All, Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________

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