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augusti 20, 2003
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication
Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (JCMC) har en special issue om Internet Networks: The Form and the Feel.
Väl värd att bläddra i, liksom äldre nummer, t.ex. Electronic Networks and Democracy.
Artiklarna i det senaste numret är:
- Anne Beaulieu: Combining Approaches for the Study of Networks on the Internet" (Editor's Introduction): In this special issue the authors reflect on the relation between formal analysis of networks and issues of the content and substance of these networks in Internet studies.
- Iina Hellsten: Focus on Metaphors: The Case of 'Frankenfood' on the Web: The author follows the development of the metaphor of "Frankenfood" in the ongoing debate over GM food, and then maps the uses of the metaphor by various sites on the Web.
- Devan Rosen, Joseph Woelfel, Dean Krikorian, George A. Barnett: Procedures for Analyses of Online Communities: This article details a set of procedures for the analysis and interpretation of the content and structure of online networks and communities.
- Kirsten A. Foot, Steven M. Schneider, Meghan Dougherty, Michael Xenos, Elena Larsen: Analyzing Linking Practices: Candidate Sites in the 2002 US Electoral Web Sphere: The authors examine the linking practices of U.S. Congressional candidate Web sites during the 2002 campaign season.
- Paul Wouters, Diana Gerbec: Interactive Internet? Studying Mediated Interaction with Publicly Available Search Engines: The authors find that the publicly available search engines lack stability and transparency, and they do not present their results in a way that is suitable for the creation of data sets.
- Andrea Scharnhorst: Complex Networks and the Web: Insights from Nonlinear Physics: This paper reviews the emergence from theoretical physics of a new specialty which analyzes the Internet and the Web as complex networks.
- Han Woo Park, Mike Thelwall: Hyperlink Analyses of the World Wide Web: A Review: The authors provide an extended review of hyperlink network analysis (HNA) and Webometrics, and reflect on their application.
Under rubriken also in this issue:
- Quint Randle: Gratification Niches of Monthly Print Magazines and the World Wide Web Among a Group of Special-Interest Magazine Subscribers: A recent subscriber survey suggests that the Web offers a wider array of gratifications than magazines, and delivers them in a superior fashion.
- Mary Lou Sheffer: State Legislators' Perceptions of the Use of E-mail in Constituent Communication: Although e-mail is thought to be an effective means of communicating politically by legislators, it is not being implemented as a political tool.
Posted by hakank at augusti 20, 2003 07:23 EM Posted to Social Network Analysis/Complex Networks