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Posted by Lukie Stalenhoef in no. 3: Mapping the Network Society on 09. May, 2009 | No Comments
The blogosphere, representing all the blogs on the web, is often perceived as a vital public sphere and is said to be a collective of interconnected blogs in which virtual communities are formed by means of linking back-and-forth. However, it is problematic to generalize about theblogosphere because of its size, diversity of content and variation [...]
Posted by Aliki Tzatha in Book reviews, no. 2: Limitations of SNA on 09. May, 2009 | No Comments
At first glance, in an edition dealing with the limitations of social network analysis, a review of Castells’ work The Power of Identity may seem alarmingly out of place. In another context it could have been justified by Castells’ recent (2004) review of the book; or by the book’s prophetic clarity, to have anticipated an [...]
Posted by Jenneffer Schepers in Book reviews, no. 2: Limitations of SNA on 09. May, 2009 | No Comments
The emergence of the amateur culture as an effect of the Internet and Web 2.0 is often celebrated in the field of cultural or media studies. Geert Lovink argues instead to look beyond these utopian perspectives of Internet Culture and proposes a more critical view in his book Zero Comments: Blogging and Internet Culture (2007). [...]
Posted by Lukie Stalenhoef in Book reviews, no. 3: Mapping the Network Society on 08. May, 2009 | No Comments
The author Mark Tremayne introduces us with a collection of essays to further our understanding of the role of blogs in the contemporary media landscape. Given the fact that Americans are increasingly turning to blogs for news, information and entertainment, Tremayne argues how it is useful to investigate the consequences, effects and legal implications of [...]
