- Gender, Identity, and Language Use in Teenage Blogs
David Huffaker & Sandra Calvert
Boys and girls presented themselves similarly overall in their public weblogs; however, males more than females used emoticons, employed an active and resolute style of language, and were more likely to present themselves as gay.
- The Language of Online Intercultural Community Formation
Justine Cassell & Dona Tversky
Young people from different cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds increasingly constituted themselves as a community over time, speaking in the collective voice, converging on a linguistic style, and concurring on the topics of conversation, the goals of the group, and strategies for achieving them.
- Hazing as a Process of Boundary Maintenance in an Online
Community
Courtenay Honeycutt
A study of hazing in a mostly-female online fan community finds that elite members enact violence, withhold cultural capital, and control access as a means to retain their power and maintain the group's boundaries.
- Mechanisms of an Online Public Sphere: The Website Slashdot
Nathaniel Poor
This article analyzes the website Slashdot, an online community of computer enthusiasts, as a public sphere in the sense of Habermas, arguing that the main theme of the site, open source software, is consistent with the public sphere ideal.
- The Role of the Habitus in Shaping Discourses about the Digital Divide
Lynette Kvasny
Discourses enacted by authorities in the municipal government and African-American adults taking part in a community technology initiative in an urban, working-class neighborhood unwittingly reinforce social inequities that structure the digital divide.
- Experienced Presence within Computer-Mediated
Communications: Initial Explorations on the Effects of Gender with Respect to Empathy and Immersion
Stef G. Nicovich, Gregory W. Boller, & T. Bettina Cornwell
Results of an experimental study in an immersive environment indicate that participants use empathic ability as a means of engaging in presence. Men engage via the interaction afforded by the virtual environment, while women engage in presence via watching the environment.
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- A Content Analytic Comparison of Learning Processes
in Online and Face-to-Face Case Study Discussions
Robert Heckman & Hala Annabi
A content analysis of transcripts from face-to-face (FTF) and asynchronous learning networks (ALNs) provides evidence that ALNs generate high levels of cognitive activity, at least equal to, and in some cases superior to, the cognitive processes in the FTF classroom.
- The Media Downing of Pierre Salinger: Journalistic
Mistrust of the Internet as a News Source
Thomas E. Ruggiero & Samuel P. Winch
Through analysis of historical listserv dialogue and traditional media dissection of a watershed debate—that a missile caused the TWA 800 crash on July 17, 1996—this study sheds light on an early example of journalistic wariness and mistrust of the Internet as a news source.
- Congress on the Internet: Messages on the Homepages
of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1996 and 2001
Sharon E. Jarvis & Kristen Wilkerson
An analysis of the homepages of members of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1996 and 2001 reveals few notable changes in the sites over time; moreover, the pages harbor assumptions about audiences that are less interactive than those of other political web sites.
- The Italian Extreme Right On-line Network: An
Exploratory Study Using an Integrated Social Network Analysis and Content Analysis Approach
Luca Tateo
All over the world, extreme right activists and neo-nazis are using the Internet as a tool for communication and recruitment. This study investigates the hyperlink-based ties among Italian extreme right websites, arguing that the sites comprise a structured network.
Research Brief
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The Story of Subject Naught: A Cautionary but
Optimistic Tale of Internet Survey Research
Joseph A. Konstan, B. R. Simon Rosser, Michael W. Ross, Jeffrey Stanton, & Weston M. Edwards
In a web-based, sexual behavior risk study using a rigorous response validation protocol, a single participant responded to the survey 65 times. This brief describes how the researchers were able to detect the repeat submissions.
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