Hi, perhaps you have already seen the Digital Icons publications that focus on the post-Soviet internet, but here is a link to a particularly good edition that deals with social networking: http://www.digitalicons.org/ru/issue02/ Please post when you publish, I would be interested in seeing your work as I am (trying to) write a book about the Russian internet. Sincerely Sarah Sarah Oates Professor of Political Communication School of Social and Political Sciences Adam Smith Building University of Glasgow Glasgow G12 8RT Email: sarah.oates@glasgow.ac.uk Website with publications for free download: www.media-politics.com <http://www.media-politics.com/> Telephone: (0)141 330 5124 The University of Glasgow, charity number SC004401 ________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of Semenov Alexander Sent: Thu 07/10/2010 10:30 To: Caroline Haythornthwaite Cc: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Subject: Re: [Air-L] Definition of on-line community through homophily Hello, Caroline! I didn't mean entire LiveJournal, only one of its communities. My case is community "sociolog" and the problem is that during 2 huge scandals in russian sociology, which mostly took part in blogosphere (in Russia blogosphere = LiveJournal) this community wasn't the main place of discussion. So, my arguement is that community should be defined by interaction, not by some declarative features like interests, profiles, communities, etc. Best regards, Alexander. 2010/10/6 Caroline Haythornthwaite <haythorn@illinois.edu>
I have published a social network informed theoretical position on what forms 'crowds' vs 'communities'. The basic proposition is that crowds are tied by a coorientation to a subject of common interest, communities are tied by this coorientation, but also heavily by attention to others in the community. Be interested in what you find from your work. This is one version of the idea:
Haythornthwaite, C. (Jan. 2009). Crowds and communities: Light and heavyweight models of peer production. Proceedings of the 42nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences. Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society. Available via the UIUC institutional repository at: https://www.ideals.uiuc.edu/handle/2142/9457.
I'm surprised you'd think Live Journal is not a community in that sense. Try a dissertation by Claudia Rebaza that shows the internal recognition of others and interaction through reading and commentary on writings. (Re one community within LiveJournal).
Rebaza, C. (2009). The Technological Continuum of Coterie Publication: Fan Fiction Writing Communities on LiveJournal. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Illinois.
/Caroline
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Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2010 12:46:52 +0400 From: Semenov Alexander <semenoffalex@googlemail.com> Subject: [Air-L] Definition of on-line community through homophily To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org
Hello, everybody. I'm looking for papers, that define on-line communities through common itnerests. My idea is to prove, that many so-called communities in LiveJournals are not such, because there is too few discussions and other kind of interaction. So that joining such a community is mostly a demonstration of taste and part of self-presentation in their profiles. In order to prove that I want to run a PCA on the data from one of such communities like in Paolilo, Wright and Mercure's article ( http://www.scribd.com/doc/353326/The-Social-Semantics-of- LiveJournal-FOAF-Structure-and-Change-from-2004-to-2005). Their data show that there is no correlation between interests and friends and I understand it as lack of homophily. (Am I right?) So, that is my working hypothesis I want to prove. That's why I need some sources. I looked through Barry Wellman's works but he uses another approach. -- Alexander Semenov. MA student Faculty of Sociology Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html
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-- Alexander Semenov. MA student Faculty of Sociology Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (MSSES) http://www.msses.ru/English/index.html Graduate Student in Sociology at State University - Higher School of Economics http://www.hse.ru/eng _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org <http://aoir.org/> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/