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Archive for January, 2005

Computers can’t be biased?!

Sunday, January 30th, 2005

Krishna Bharat, chief scientist for Google News, told Wired recently,
“The truth is, Google News doesn’t have a point of view. It’s a computer, and computers do not understand these topics the way humans do and can’t be systematically biased in any direction.”

Well it seems the search engine companies have the public on their side on this one - 68% of US users say that search engines are a fair and unbiased source of information according to a recent Pew report on search engine users but if you sit back and think for a second it is hard to see how Google News could be ‘objective’ - what does that even mean? As soon as Google steps in and dictates what counts as a news source and what doesn’t that could arguably introduce bias - and every algorithm has its own tacit ‘tendencies’ to favour certain results over other results whether to improve “relevance” or just accidentally.

It’s a little worrying that most search engine users don’t really grasp these issues. I tried to interview a few of them a couple of years ago about this and found it hard even to get them to understand what I was trying to ask them about…

Thanks to John Battelle’s Searchblog for the link (there are plenty of comments on this issue there).

On participation

Sunday, January 30th, 2005

This may not be the right time or place, but I’m struggling with the notion of participation and participatory culture in general. Don’t you find that also a concept not without its complexities? IMO it does signal a blurring of the boundaries between production and consumption, and a subversion of established hierarchies of cultural value and authority. But does it have to be about the ‘co-production of texts’ such as modding, fan fiction, sampling? How would it relate to for instance interactivity? Hence, what would then criteria be for participation?

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Thursday, January 27th, 2005

Hello everyone! Although I?ve been a member of this blog for quite sometime, I have yet to log on, introduce myself and get posting! It is a real pleasure to read all of your posts, and I?m pleased to be a part of it. And of course, many thanks to David for setting this blog up and quietly but persistently reminding us to use

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Suicide and using the Internet for self-expression

Wednesday, January 26th, 2005

Katelyn McKenna and John Bargh in their 1998 study - Coming out in the age of the Internet: Identity ?de-marginalization? from virtual group participation. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 75, 681-694 - were early and perceptive in noting that the Internet lets you express your own individuality (via newsgroups in their study) and find others who share that, arguably helping to support groups society deems marginal. Fine in the case of gays, ethnic minorities etc - less good in the case of neo-nazis as they point out.

This popped back into mind the other day when I came across this BBC World Service programme:

In Japan, the internet is being blamed for a spate of group suicides - usually involving the young. Since October of last year more than thirty people have killed themselves with the help of strangers that they’ve met in so-called suicide chatrooms. Our Asia correspondent, Andrew Harding, has been to Tokyo to find out more about this phenomenon.

You can hear the audio from the programme (Analysis) until Friday - I also have an MP3 of it I have archived. Basically people who are too frightened to kill themselves alone are finding “suicide buddies” to help them go through with it.

Along similar lines Pro anorexia websites and weblogs abound, where teens and others who share this unfortunate (and sometimes fatal) disorder often encourage each other to keep up the practice in the face of societal pressure. (Danah Boyd romantically defends these subcultures (at least implicitly) in her passionate defense of the LiveJournal culture).

On the other hand, as “spacewaitress” points out in this moving video clip from blogumentary.org, if you are contemplating suicide you may only feel able to say so on your blog and in that case when you post about it your friends may give you the support you need (but couldn’t ask for) to get through your problems… Similarly one of the people interviewed in Japan found just being able to talk with other people seeking suicide and sharing problems was support enough that they decided not to go through with it and they maintained a support web page instead.

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Two upcoming IPPR events

Tuesday, January 25th, 2005

The Manifesto for a Digital Britain team at IPPR is hosting events that might be interesting for some of you. Let me know if any of you also plan on attending.

Digital Heritage: preserving creativity in the Internet era

Wednesday 2nd February

This joint event with the All Party Internet Group will look at the role of digital rights management techniques and the preservation of content in the digital era. The opening address will be given by Derek Wyatt MP, Chair of APIG and will be followed by presentations from: - Sarah Faulder, Chief Executive, Music Publishers Association, representing British Music Rights - David Dawson - Senior ICT Adviser, Museums, Libraries and Archives Council - Paul Gerhardt & Paula Le Dieu - BBC Creative Archives Project - Technology industry representative (TBC) There will be a panel discussion and Q & A session moderated by Will Davies, Senior Research Fellow, ippr The event will be held 5 - 7pm, Portcullis House, Westminster

Contact Marc Woolfson: admin@apig.org.uk

and also

Do we need to protect the public domain?

Utilitarian justifications of property, such as Hardin’s tragedy of the commons, have long espoused the efficiency of private ownership. Similarly, those in favour of the protection of the commons often rely on arguments relating to the efficiency of fewer public property rights. This event will consider the relevance of public domain content, both to competition and innovation, and as a public good of itself. It will consider recent initiatives, such as Creative Commons, which aims to provide a more flexible range of freedoms and protections to creators; the role and requirements of creators; and, the relationship between public domain content, property rights and competition and innovation. The event will be held at ippr on 17th February 2005, 2 - 4pm. Speakers include: - Damian Tambini, Head of the Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy (PCMLP), Oxford and UK Project Lead for Creative Commons; - Cory Doctorow, European Affairs Co-ordinator for Electronic Frontier Foundation; - David Ferguson, Chairman, Creators’ Rights Alliance

Contact Kay Withers: k.withers@ippr.org

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Citizenship and Social Policy…

Tuesday, January 25th, 2005

Hello everyone!? Although I’ve been a member of this blog for quite sometime, I have yet to log on, introduce myself and get posting!? It is a real pleasure to read all of your posts, and I’m pleased to be a part of it.? And of course, many thanks to David for setting this blog up and quietly but persistently reminding us to use it.

Very very broadly, I’m working on the relationship between citizenship and new media, at least the ways in which new media discourses claim to extend, transform, reconstitute or even all out create new kinds (or dimensions) of citizenship.??Amidst all the claims that?new media is transforming the ways we think of belonging, geographies, nation-states and social, cultural and political? forms of membership, I found it difficult to differentiate between what citizenship?is, what it can be and particularly how it might be changing.? So despite the numerous criticisms?(i.e. glaring ethno and eurocentrism, a total lack of empirical support and what some might term ‘discrepancies’ between civic entitlements and human rights), I found T. H. Marshall’s civil, political and social dimensions - in addition to his critique of capitalism and committment to social equality - a critical starting point for thinking about citizenship.?

As you can imagine I was pleased to hear of a new T. H. Marshall fellowship and exchange program developed by LSE, the social science research?centre of Berlin (WZB) and the University of Bremen.? The new collaboration was launched on Jan.18th with a talk on ‘Citizenship and Social Policy in 21st Century Europe.’? Although the speakers were articulate, the themes have been well rehearsed in the literature and in my opinion there was too much talk about pensions.? Nonetheless, there were a few points I thought would be worthy of posting.

Jane Lewis (of LSE) spoke about gender and citizenship and focussed on the ‘profound shift’ in the relationship between gender and the state,?particularly regarding the kind of social expectations attached to gender.? Lewis was primarily referring to the shift in the ‘women-as-domestic-carers and men-as-breadwinners’ model.??The new model is that women are now as obligated to work as their male counterparts as ‘citizen workers’ rather than citizen-carers/mothers. However, Lewis makes clear that the discursive justification for these shifts do not speak of gender but are discussed in terms of market growth and potential contributions to the maintenance of nations. Lewis concluded by noting that althoug these changes have not been accompanied by gender equity, creating an alternative model of citizenship (in contrast to the citizen-worker) based on the citizen-worker-carer will lead to greater developments in gender equity.

I’m intrigued by the idea of ‘citizen-carer’ but am not convinced that such a model will address gender (or other) inequities.? When it comes down to it, ‘caring’?has long been part of women’s unrenumerated obligations to state and society and maybe I’m missing something, but?I don’t see how extending such citizen obligations to all genders will change the socio-economic inequities around the gendered division of labour.

Stephan Leibfried spoke on the tensions (or as Marshall claimed - the war) between capitalism and citizenship. Beginning with the 1997 Amsterdam Treaty, new politics of citizenship and equality have been emerging (nationality and gender). In the European constitution, there now 18 categories of equality. Some of these include colour, social origin, property, birth, disability and more… I find this interesting in terms of changing expectations/practices of and to citizen rights and obligations. However, I still need to some work around the differences between civil liberties, human rights and civic entitlements; I find it interesting to contextualize the many emerging communications rights within a much broader expansion of rights based frameworks.

Also, Liebfried spoke about the transformation of citizenship from ethnic nationalist notions of citizenship to member citizenship. Again, not new, but it has interesting implications as far as the relationship between media and citizenship?go.? Perhaps more interesting are the implications of an ever widening rights-based citizenship…

Media btw, was almost totally absent from this talk.

All for now, but hope y’all keep posting!

Zoe

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ON THE WEB: More legal than P2P

Tuesday, January 25th, 2005

Why steal music when you can stream it? That?s the idea behind Mercora — a startup that allows users to listen to music files on other people?s hard drives. Instead of swapping schemes of the Kazaa and Grokster ilk, Mercora allows users to broadcast songs as does radio. Since the RIAA isn?t about to put radio stations out of business, Mercora could be a legal alternative to peer-to-peer file-swapping. The question is, will iPod users buy into a program that tethers them to their PCs? Read more here

Where can I find the anti-Chomsky?

Monday, January 24th, 2005

I tend to get a lot of student papers (and a fair amount of class discussion) where students seem to have simply swallowed hegemonic theories of the media uncritically. What widely available texts should I suggest students read that engage critically with the hegemony theorists so at least their papers will contain a balanced perspective taking into account countervailing influences like the journalists’ own reflexivity, the (contested but still marginally existent) power of non-commercial mainstream media outlets like the BBC, the ability of people to produce their own alternative media and the classical liberal argument that the market provides sufficient pluralism through competition?

I found Lichtenberg, J. (2000) “In Defence of Objectivity, Revisited” in Mass Media and Society, (Gurevitch, M. and J. Curran eds) (3rd) Arnold, London, pp. 238-254. to be a good start - anything else?

Update: A colleague suggested

  • Klaehn, J. (2002) “A Critical Review and Assessment of Herman and Chomsky’s ‘Propaganda Model’”, European Journal of Communication, 17 (2), pp. 147-182
  • Curran and Seaton, Power without Responsibility
  • Curran, “Rethinking Media and Democracy” in Mass Media and Society (Gurevitch, M. and J. Curran eds)

All of them good choices. Other ideas would still be welcome though.

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LSE Media & Comms Imprint?

Monday, January 24th, 2005

So we had a presentation at a seminar last semester from a lovely woman from Routledge who was commissioning editor for their line of media & communications books.? She informed us that the likely rewards of an academic book contract were on the order of a couple of hundred pounds (well, give or take); also, new just-in-time printing available now means that books effectively never go out of print ? and therefore the rights never revert to back to you, the author.? Just to be clear: she really was very friendly, and Routledge, I think, is a model publisher.?

But personally I can?t help thinking it?s a racket.? It?s based on an outdated model of publishing, in my opinion, so I set out to investigate an alternate.? Surely, I thought, these just-in-time printing facilities are available to others.? And, indeed, they are.

Here?s an example of how they work.

One of the most professional seems to be an American outfit called Xlibris.? (There are also others, including Lulu, iUniverse, Authorhouse, Trafford, Booklocker, Publish and be damned?- mostly American) Here we find their ?basic service? costs $500 (about ?270 in today?s crazy exchange scenario).? You get a choice of cover designs and interior layouts.? They give you an ISBN and a barcode, register you at a range of online stores and Books in Print, and give you a Web page to promote your book.? (And in January, you get 10 free copies!).? And you retain all the rights.??

You then get 10% of the cover price if you sell through these bookstores (or others, like campus bookstores, who might order copies).? Or you can sell them yourself, but you have to pay 60% of cover price.? Prices vary by page count.

For illustrative purposes, let?s imagine a 250 page book which we hope will sell 1000 copies.? An Xlibris-published version? would retail at Amazon, say, for $21.99. You would receive $2.20 per copy, or $2,200.? Less the $500 you paid, that would be $1,700.? To break even, you?d only have to sell about 25 copies.

But, I hear you say.? But, but, but.? I need a job.? I need a reputable publisher.? And, God help me, I need proofreading and editing.? And help marketing.

This is where I think the LSE and other institutions should come in.? We should form a group and develop the ?LSE Media & Communications Series? or the ?MeCCSA Publishing co-operative?.? We should go to all these publishers, we should negotiate preferential rates, and we should develop a link with a low-cost editing house.? And the collective should be funded, so that it can help absorb initial costs.?

Result: improved brand for LSE, authors keep their rights and earn more royalties.

Now tell me, what?s wrong with this scenario?

Satire a little close to home

Sunday, January 23rd, 2005

Salon’s set of satirical tech/politics predictions for 2005 includes this:

Just weeks after announcing ambitious plans to digitize millions of books from five major libraries, Google burns down its electronic Alexandria before even really starting it.

The problem isn’t the anticipated copyright headaches. It’s the readers — or lack thereof.

“When news of our plans broke, we were flooded with e-mails from college students begging us to make more term papers available, not books,” says a Google executive who asked not to be named. “The kids told us that they have plenty of access to books on paper that they don’t read. What they really need is someone to do the reading, thinking and writing for them.”

Convinced that absolutely no one wants to read most of the tomes they’d just begun digitizing, Google decides to divert the tens of millions designated for the book project into hiring underemployed Ph.D.’s to build up the world’s biggest virtual term-paper library.

I certainly hope it’s scholarship and not laziness that prompts people to request copies of my MSc dissertation and other academic writing

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Korean blogging is huge!

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Did you know there are more Korean bloggers than American ones? That 90% of South Koreans in their 20s have a blog?! UsageWatch.org cites the makers of Cyworld and some market research to suggest that one in four of all South Koreans have a blog on that service alone. Makes the November figures for the US (7% of adult US internet users or 2.7% of the US population according to Pew) seem puny by comparison.

I will be studying UK weblogging for my thesis but this really makes me wish I spoke Korean and could do my research there… Also see:

  • this International Herald Tribune article for the demographic and financial figures
  • ‘I Was a Cyholic, a Cyworld Addict’ for a more personal view (from one of the ‘citizen reporters’ for OhMyNews - another S Korean phenomenon I blogged about earlier
  • and here for some suggestions about why S Korea has such high broadband penetration.
  • Update: Blogcount cites sources suggesting even higher numbers of Korean bloggers and points out that the various blog monitoring services like Technorati don’t seem to be tracking them.

Korean blogging is huge!

Thursday, January 20th, 2005

Did you know there are more Korean bloggers than American ones? That 90 percent of South Koreans in their 20s have a blog?! UsageWatch.org cites the makers of Cyworld and some market research to suggest that one in four of all South Koreans have a blog on Cyworld

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Russia Broadband Overview

Wednesday, January 19th, 2005

Russia Broadband Overview

the residential sector is dominated at present by the informal ‘Home Networks’ which use Ethernet LANs to link up buildings, housing developments and sometimes whole neighbourhoods to ‘broadband’ access (2 Mbps up to the buildings is considered the average by local observers). These operators account for some 75% residential users, or some 550,000 by end 2004, connected households throughout Russia, according to analysts. They are generally very low cost. These informal networks are expected to dominate for perhaps a further two years until DSL is more widespread. During this period the larger telcos are expected to try to buy up the small Home LAN companies and cooperatives.

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Call for book chapters

Tuesday, January 18th, 2005

“ICTs and Emergent Business Strategies”

Our project explores the cultural and economic implications of a new generation of commercial media culture and a new mode of computer network-facilitated participation. It examines particular examples of social participation stimulated by commercial corporations for reasons of promotion and profit, enabled by computer networks, and given form by various members of the public. Specifically, our project will focus on the wide and rapid diffusion of the use of various new media, such as email, mobile phones, mobile internet, instant messengers, and weblogs, have entirely changed the paradigm of human communications. These new communication means, major products of information and communication technologies (ICTs) during the last two decades, are gradually replacing some conventional communication means, such as physical mailing or talking on fixed phones. These replacements can also change human behavior, and may create new or alternative social norms and cultures. We would also focus on some interesting differences between Japan, Europe, and the US perspective regarding various media uses, which seem to be based on each region?s cultural/social backgrounds.
The most important point in the examination of the communication means and new technologies is, we believe, the innovation processes that occur while these technologies diffuse among users. Investigating the changes of interpretation in our society for each communication means and its technology is especially significant from a social scientific viewpoint. By investigating such innovation processes, we can examine the evolution of social norms and emergence of new cultures rather than merely tracing superficial trends of ICTs.

If this seems interesting to you or someone you know and you would like to contribute a chapter, please contact me.
(Based on joint-project of Hakuhodo, Utrecht University, and Ericsson Consumer Lab)

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Finally… MySpace

Tuesday, January 18th, 2005

Ok, so I promised to post ages ago… but was looking for a cd full of interesting links. Well, still haven’t been able to find it. So be patient with me ;)

However, I’m currently working on exploring cases for my research on emergent production and consumption models and implications for media design and use, that is, for organization structures for both corporations and consumers - blah - and encountered some interesting ways (not sure if that’s the right word though) how social software is used. For instance, at MySpace.com. Lots of upcoming bands are plugging their way into these sorts of networks. Yes, I became a member (click here) and get now tuns of invitations of obscure people but most of them, are bands, who want to become my friend. The ones that are my friends are actual friends of mine & yes, some of them are in bands. You’ll also notice that people like Carmen Elektra or movies like Million Dollar Baby are plugged there as well. Very similar to The Apprentice plug on Friendster.

BTW, if anybody knows of good examples of mash-ups & mods (like e.g., David Bowie’s mash-up contest) don’t hestitate to send me a message, or better, post a comment! That’s probably the core of my research interest (well, and 2 looming conferences this Spring).

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BBC vs. Google

Tuesday, January 18th, 2005

How about the BBC challenging Google for the provision of online services?

“We
have got the best content in the world and a more flexible rights
framework than anyone,” says [Ashley] Highfield. “We have the best
brand, I would argue, online in the world in terms of trust and
impartiality. We’ve also got access to some of the best technology in
the world. If you glue all of that together we should be in a prime
position to create the best next-generation search navigation tool in
the world,” he enthuses.

I was wondering whether this would include a challenge to the real core of Google’s power, the ubiquitous search engine.

Come to think of it, I generally go google, and then iBBC if no luck on the first few screens.

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political blogging

Sunday, January 16th, 2005

All blogging is political it seems. Or not.

I met with Tim Ireland, the other night, in London. In many a way he’s one of the most influential political bloggers in Britain, writing about the Sun, current affair and, ehr, MPs blogging. He gave me food for thought on the nature of blogging, i.e. what makes it different, and its possible effect on the political system.

In the first respect, he was saying that its’ all about trust, transparency and the distribution of social intelligence. By that meaning, a blogger’s influence is function of her capacity to build an argument which is based on demonstrable evidence, and stands the test of other bloggers’ scrutiny (and the public as well). In this way a blogger builds trust, or reputation, and authority with that. Transparency ir required to coalesce this process, at different levels: IP, content, personae. That is you need to know where your traffic and comments are coming from, the author of posts/comments and where the evidence is to support an argument.

This has consequences for politics and to some extent also democracy. Well, we agreed that it does, in four overlapping respects. First, blogging is a form of glorified, old time journalism, by which the truth emerges most of the time from research, testing and critical, peer assessment. Second, blogging is a collective exercise in online deliberation, as bloggers come together as a public online. They judge other bloggers on the grounds of the evidence presented through rational scrutiny, and challenge authority with authority. Plus, on the Internet nobody knows you are a dog-blogger. Finally, this process leads to the collectivised and bottom-owned articulation of social intelligence, by which new meanings are built and new structure of knowledge, and power, created. Finally, related to that, blogging is a great campaigning toll, which exploits citizens’ apathy and laziness, and is thoroughly embedded in search engine dynamics. It comes down to who comes up. And this is crucial for political campaigns.

Of course each of these models has flaws and each complements the others. But enough for now, I’ll need to take a deep breath and think about what I just said. I’ll leave it for tomorrow.

And this is not quite the terms in which we’ve discussed it, rather an academic rendition of the chat we had. Tom Watson chimed in briefly at the meeting, but I reckon he was too bored by blog-academic spiel to stay for long. Which sort of makes sense, as the ‘chat’ was 3-hours long; most of the other stuff from the meeting will be coming out, Steve Ward and I hope, as a research note for our research project. Well, thanks Tim, much appreciated.

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Saturday, January 15th, 2005

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Get your loony predictions about the Internet here…

Tuesday, January 11th, 2005

The wonderful people at Pew working with Elon U have come up with a database of pundits’ predictions about the Internet in the early 1990s. I am sure of many minutes of entertainment looking through it for particularly lame predictions and prognostications. My personal favourite so far is “Will we allow ourselves to be possessed by the vision of a Net whose purpose is to help create and support HEROES? Or will we dismiss it all with a keystroke and get back to the REAL FUN STUFF on alt.flame.Joe.schmuck.the.world’s.greatest.poophead? ? Steve Crocker, 1995″ (Which do you think we ended up with?)

I might make a prediction myself - after all the guy predicting we’ll be able to download coffee got published…

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