http://www.edtags.org/ http://www.edtags.org/css/EdTags.jpghttp://www.edtags.org/bookmarks.php/katiebda/kdqpp Recent bookmarks posted to Edtags.org 60 http://www.tiara.org/lj_bib.html#id katiebda Thu, 30 Oct 2008 19:29:17 +0000 november08 blogs kdqpp research http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/fashion/11talk.html?ei=5070 The term researchers use is “co-rumination” to describe frequently or obsessively discussing the same problem. The behavior is typical among teens — Why didn’t he call? Should I break up with him? And, psychologists say, it has intensified significantly with e-mail, text messaging, instant messaging and Facebook. And in certain cases it can spin into a potentially contagious and unhealthy emotional angst, experts say. katiebda Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:42:51 +0000 september08 kdqpp research http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080409-blogging-meets-literary-theory-in-new-analysis.html The rise of blogging clearly represents a significant social phenomenon, but studying it poses a challenge in part because defining a blog is not a simple thing. There have been a number of attempts to do so at the technical level, where the presence of material organized by time stamp or the existence of RSS feeds have been suggested as defining features. A group at the University of California-Irvine, however, decided to approach the question from the perspective of human-computer interactions, where the humans involved were blog readers. Mixing in a dose of literary theory provided some interesting insights into how readers view and define blogs. katiebda Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:38:53 +0000 april08 blog kdqpp http://www.boston.com/lifestyle/articles/2008/04/05/dear_blog/?page=1 The girls reinforce their close friendships with one another & with classmates who also blog. They use their blogs to rollick & rant & reminisce, perhaps with less attention to the niceties of word choice & spelling & grammar than they invest in their English papers. They express sides of themselves at odds w/ their public personas & glimpse what may not be apparent in their friends. katiebda Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:47:35 +0000 april08 kdqpp identity blog http://www.diaryhistoryproject.com/ The Online Diary History Project was a collaborative effort. After all, who better to write the history of online journals than the people who wrote (and still write) the online journals? We brought together the personal recollections of those journallers who got their start between 1995 and the end of 1997. katiebda Mon, 10 Mar 2008 06:31:24 +0000 march08 blog kdqpp http://www.swsg.org/index.htm Strong Women, Strong Girls has created an innovative after school model that uses the study of contemporary and historic female role models, mentoring relationships with college undergraduate women, and skill building activities to help at-risk girls in grades 3-5 build positive self-esteem and skills for life-long success. katiebda Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:50:40 +0000 february08 identity kdqpp http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/21/fashion/21webgirls.html?pagewanted=2&ei=5070&en=dc5c055d6d310899&ex=1204434000&adxnnl=1&emc=eta1&adxnnlx=1203868932-ptWm8Rgx0RHuZ8DMPAGP5Q While creating content enables girls to experiment with how they want to present themselves to the world, they are obviously interested in maintaining and forging relationships. katiebda Sun, 24 Feb 2008 23:10:35 +0000 february08 identity blog kdqpp http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/230/report_display.asp Girls continue to dominate most elements of content creation. Some 35% of all teen girls blog, compared with 20% of online boys, and 54% of wired girls post photos online compared with 40% of online boys. Boys, however, do dominate one area - posting of video content online. Online teen boys are nearly twice as likely as online girls (19% vs. 10%) to have posted a video online somewhere where someone else could see it. katiebda Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:29:10 +0000 december07 research kdqpp blog http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/17/style/17facebook.html?ex=1198558800&en=c764e502f697c49b&ei=5070&emc=eta1 In “The Benefits of Facebook ‘Friends,’” a paper this year in The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, Nicole Ellison, an assistant prof at Michigan State University, and colleagues found that Facebook use could have a positive impact on students’ well-being. The Harvard-U.C.L.A. researchers are investigating triadic closure, a concept 1st put forth by the German sociologist Georg Simmel. katiebda Tue, 18 Dec 2007 01:59:18 +0000 december07 research facebook kdqpp http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2559&utm_src=wc&utm_medium=en A team led by Carlos Guestrin, an assistant professor of computer science and machine learning, scanned about 45,000 blogs and ran them through an algorithm that measures how information propagates. (This is an example of blog research focused on filter, "A-list" blogs.) katiebda Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:30:27 +0000 november07 blogs kdqpp research http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2558&utm_src=wc&utm_medium=en Ms. Hargittai says the results show that online social networks evoke real-world communities and demographics. “Online actions and interactions cannot be seen as tabula rasa activities, independent of existing offline identities,” she writes. “Rather, constraints on one’s everyday life are reflected in online behavior, thereby limiting—for some more than others—the extent to which students from different backgrounds may interact with students not like themselves.” katiebda Thu, 22 Nov 2007 01:28:34 +0000 november07 kdqpp research identity participation http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/11/06/rewriting-rap-to-empower-teens/ The Atlanta teens are part of a group called HOTGIRLS (Helping Our Teen Girls In Real Life Situations). Although rap is often blamed for promoting degrading images of women, HOTGIRLS uses rap music to start conversations with girls about the challenges they face growing up. katiebda Thu, 08 Nov 2007 21:35:15 +0000 identity intervention kdqpp november07 http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2485 A survey of people’s online communication habits reveals that college students use social-networking sites, such as Facebook and MySpace, primarily to keep up with their friends. katiebda Fri, 26 Oct 2007 04:10:07 +0000 october07 research participation kdqpp http://www.danah.org/SNSResearch.html Reference list compiled by danah boyd katiebda Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:02:07 +0000 october07 kdqpp research http://www.collectivate.net/journalisms/2007/9/26/a-history-of-the-social-web.html In 1994, Justin Hall (b. 1974 in Chicago), now an American freelance journalist, then a Swarthmore College student, started a web-based diary called Justin's Links from the Underground, which offered link highlighting (not unlike BoingBoing) and excentric, journaling (e.g., his exploration of "sexuality as a sacred place"). This web-based diary is often cited as the first weblog. katiebda Thu, 04 Oct 2007 02:27:37 +0000 research october07 kdqpp blogging