When the late Peter Kollock and I published Communities in Cyberspace with Routledge in 1999 there were few broadband connections, no iPhones, and little WiFi. Today, there is an ebook version of the book and Amazon sells a version for the Kindle, a device it was hard to even imagine when the book was written. [...]
Book: Communities in Cyberspace – Ten Years Later
December 15th, 2009 · 4 Comments
Tags: Book · Collective Action · Common Goods · Community · Data Mining · Measuring social media · Metrics · Research · Social Media · Social Roles · Sociology
Elinor Ostrom wins the 2009 Nobel Prize for Economics
October 12th, 2009 · No Comments
Professor Elinor Ostrom has been awarded the Nobel prize in Economics for her work on common pool resources (CPRs) and the management of shared resources. Her work has great relevance for understanding the creation of many public goods on the internet. She teaches at Indiana University where she is Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political [...]
Tags: Book · Collective Action · Common Goods · Community · Research · Social Interaction · Sociology
What makes social media social?
April 16th, 2008 · 1 Comment
At the recent ICWSM 2008 in Seattle I had an opportunity to present some thoughts about what makes social media social. The question is important because so many different types of interaction systems are considered social and they cannot all be the same thing. In an effort to categorize these systems one dimension that seems [...]
Tags: Social Media · Sociology · Talks
