I'd appreciate it if you would be willing to take a brief, two question poll about the practice of receiving "I voted" stickers--I'm very curious about how widespread this practice is. Here's the poll: http://cathawk.livejournal.com/326601.html

do you find yourself trying to show off in journals of people who don't read you back?

hi all .. its been quiet in here for a while and i ws thinking about this after watching a very fascinating criminal profiling show on tv .. im very curious to hear peoples opinions on common personality traits of an lj troll, or any internet troll actually ( Read more... )

Hello,

I recently posted this to blog_sociology and thought this community might also be interested. I've been working on a tool that aggregates public posts on LJ and grabs the mood, music, picture keyword and the list of words used in the post body. Though not very scientific, it gives a rough sense of what's going on in the land of LJ. The most common moods ( Read more... )

I am completing a survey of Conflict Style in online communication vs. the same in face-to-face interactions ....

http://www.livejournal.com/users/gfn4/17877.html

I'd appreciate your taking a moment to complete my survey!

tsenf has written a book on Web gender identity

Feminist ethnographic and critical study of camgirls: women who use webcams and online journals for autobiographical purposes.

The category of gender is today inseparable from cyberia. Camgirl communities provide an interesting case study for those of us asking: what does it mean for feminists to speak of ( Read more... )

Чтобы не было «разброда и шатаний» сначала постараемся систематизировать имеющиеся знания по УЗ. Дадим определение: УЗ - парадигма (а м.б. метафора?) эффективного практического применения (выявления, отчуждения, распространения, трансформации) имеющихся знаний и генерации новых индивидуальных и коллективных знаний и умений ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a lot about censorship in blogging. When I started blogging about four years ago, the site I used didn't offer friendslisting or FOAF or friends filters. It was simply private or public ( Read more... )

I would like to introduce readers to poszoski. This guy approaches weblog sociology and its endless punditry with laserbeam insight and a shock-proof crap detector. Considering the implications of hyperlinking pre-existing content when forming your own message, he writes:

Maybe we will reach a moment when content will be produced automatically and we ( Read more... )

Much has been written about online friendship relationships... how they form, and why they fall apart. But I haven't read discussion about the mirror opposite: The Banishment! Banning is the LJ feature that lets you prohibit someone from replying anywhere in your journal. Perhaps you've used this tool to silence someone who was really bothering ( Read more... )