Hi Martin, I wrote two papers specifically on Livejournal a few years ago. Sadly, there doesn't seem to be much work on LJ, even though it has such a fascinating history and is tied in to so much of "deep" internet culture. Hyperfriends and Beyond: Friendship and Social Norms on LiveJournal David Fono and Kate Raynes-Goldie in M. Consalvo & C. Haythornthwaite (Eds.), Internet Research Annual Volume 4: Selected Papers from the Association of Internet Researchers Conference. Peter Lang. 2007. http://k4t3.org/publications/hyperfriendship.pdf Pulling Sense out of Today’s Informational Chaos: LiveJournal as a Site of Knowledge Creation and Sharing Kate Raynes-Goldie. First Monday, 9(12). 2004. http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_12/raynes/ Best, Kate On 02/04/2008, at 12:10 PM, ep1curas@aol.com wrote:
Hi everyone,
I'm currently on fieldwork in Russia, researching how environmentalist bloggers make use of LJ in their social/political relations, and development and perfomance of personal identity. Basically the use value of the whole thing for these people :)
I've been quite out of the loop with checking journals/Athens/Google Scholar and all the rest for the past little while, and was wondering if there were any studies I have missed. Anything that touches on Livejournal would be great, but anything dealing with specifically Russian facets would also be great..either in English or Russian.
Normally I'd share full citations of sources I've already found to be useful, but I've been relegated to an internet cafe here and do not have any to hand. Off the top of my head though, Eugene Gorny's 2004 study of 'national specifics' of Russian LJ is worth looking for, as is 'Control+Shift', a book I think edited by Katie Teubener. Anything by Terri Senft is wonderful for LJ in general. Urgh..my memory is suffering..
So yes..any sources that anyone could recommend would be gratefully received!
Martin Calvert - ep1curas@aol.com Doctoral Researcher Department of Central and East European Studies Glasgow UK
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