The conference for 2008 was held in Copenhagen, with the theme “Rethinking Communities, Rethinking Place.”
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Archived papers
The following papers presented at the IR 9.0 conference, held in Copenhagen in October of 2008, have been made available by their authors. Unless otherwise noted, access is only available to current members.
Lanfranco Aceti, “The virtual places we own: when communities and artists occupy your place without your consent, ,” doc
Angela Marie Adkins, “The presentation of self in internet forums: face work without being face-to-face,” doc
Anders Albrechtslund, Anne-Mette Albrechtslund, Thomas Ryberg, Malene Charlotte Larsen, and Rikke Frank Jørgensen, “At the intersection: public and private, global and local, design and use, virtual and textual,” pdf
Christian Ulrik Andersen, Kim De Vries, Marianne van den Boomen, Elfi Ettinger, and Mirko Tobias Schaefer, “The rhetoric of Facebook: control, creativity, and the charm of transgression,” pdf
Norberto Andrade, “Virtual worlds and legal pluralism: the plurality of normative orders within the virtual realm,” pdf
Susanna Annese and Marta Traetta, “Inside and outside the web: blended communities between participation and identity,” doc
Yaron Ariel and Ruth Avidar, “Exploring interactivity and responsiveness divergence,” pdf
Patricia Arnold, John D. Smith, and Beverly Trayner, “Where do we meet next time? – negotiating places, identities and technologies in an autoethnography of a community of practice,” pdf
Alexandra Bal, “Second life: emergence of cybernetic community of practices?,” doc
Renato Dias Baptista, “The inter-relations between culture and internet,” pdf
Miriam Barnat, “Communicative community building -reflexive discourse practices and community establishment,” pdf
Susan B. Barnes, “Social networks and online learning,” pdf
Naomi S. Baron, Ylva HÃ¥rd af Segerstad, Ann-Sofie Axelsson, Erik Bohlin, Charles Westlund, Elizabeth Bolin, and Ralph Schroeder, “Swedish mobile communication in cross-cultural perspective,” doc
Nancy Baym and Andrew Ledbetter, “Tunes that bind? Predicting friendship strength in a music-based social network,” pdf
Sian Bayne, Jen Ross, and Zoe Williamson, “‘This is their stuff’: the role of social media in museum learning online,” pdf
Ivan Berazhny, Constance Elizabeth Kampf, and Eija Ventola, “Could we realize complex academic argumentation using YouTube as a dialogic space?” doc
Maria Beatrice Bittarello, “The internet from sacred space to sacred place: the intertwining/identification of place and community on the religious World Wide Web,” doc
Philippe Bouquillion and Jacob Matthews, “Web 2.0 does not exist: elements for a renewed critical approach,” pdf
Karen Brennan, “Illusions of ambiguity: signaling presence and representation of gender identities on a programmable media website for young people,” pdf
Andre Brock, “Life on The Wire: Deconstructing race on the Internet,” doc
Janne C. H. Bromseth, “Queer community between online and offline: Creating gender, sexuality and lesbian/queer community norms in Scandinavian sub-cultural intersecting spaces,” doc
Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, and Barry Saunders, “Building Spaces for Hyperlocal Citizen Journalism,” doc
Axel Bruns, Jason Wilson, Barry Saunders, Lars Kirchhoff, and Thomas Nicolai, “Australia’s Political Blogosphere in the Aftermath of 2007 Federal Election,” doc
Jean Burgess, Joshua Green, Nancy Baym, John Banks, and Robert Burnett, “Unsettling Expertise: The Politics of Online Co-Creation,” pdf
Andrea Calderaro, “Defining the Network Society: mapping the transnational digital inequalities in shaping the Internet.,” pdf
Avner Caspi, “Self Presentation and its Perception in Online Dating Websites,” pdf
Hichang Cho and MeiHui Chen, “Knowledge-sharing motivations of contributors in online wiki communities: An integrated framework of theory of planned behavior, intrinsic and extrinsic motivations.,” doc
Seong Eun Cho, “Individualism and Collectivism on SNS (Social Network Site) Users’ Communication Attitudes: Comparisons between Korean and American Users,” doc
Kim De Vries, Elfi Ettinger, Cristina Lopez, Mirko Tobias Schaefer, and Bernhard Rieder, “Community, Privacy, and Power: The Complex Relationships of Web 2.0,” pdf
Fern M Delamere, “Second Life as a ‘Third Space’: People with Disabilities and Communities of Practice,” wbk
Jeremy Depauw, “Information quality assessment and source selection on the internet for competitive intelligence: fieldwork research on 50 Belgian executives,” pdf
William H Dutton, “The Fifth Estate through the Network of Networks,” pdf
Catherine Ann Dwyer, “Designing Privacy Into Online Communities,” doc
Elfi Ettinger, Celeste Wilderom, Rolf Van Dick, and Tom Kent, “Innovating Career Services: The Role of User Involvement,” pdf
Andrew Famiglietti, “Hackers, Wikipedians, and Consumers: The Political Economies of the Wikimedia constellation,” doc
Elaine Helen Ferneley, Ben Light, and Gordon Fletcher, “Access All Areas?: The Evolution of SingStar from the PS2 to PS3 Platform,” doc
Niels Ole Finnemann, “The internet and the emergence of a new matrix of media. The co-evolution of “old” and “new” media.,” doc
Cedric Fluckiger, “Teens and weblogs network. An online community emerging from a teenage gang,” doc
Mikkel Flyverbom, “Studying global networks – a relational, agnostic and practice-oriented approach,” doc
Marcus Foth, Christine Satchell, Margot Brereton, and Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, “Internet Technology and Urban Sustainability,” pdf
Suely Fragoso, “GEOGRAPHIC CONNECTEDNESS IN SOCIAL NETWORK SITES,” pdf
Heljä Franssila and Petri Mannonen, “Affordances of Web 2.0 in supporting shared situation awareness in distributed process control communities,” doc
Deen Freelon, Mitsuharu Watanabe, Laura Busch, and Akira Kawabata, “Good Faith in the Digital Age: Controversy and Ideology in Online Deliberation,” pdf
Radhika Gajjala, “Travelling identities and practices: Locating Digital Networks,” pdf
Fernando do Nascimento Gonsalves, Camila Baretto, and Karina Passos, “Media activism networking in Brazil: the emergence of new sociabilities and forms of resistance in the internet,” doc
David Gurzick, Wayne G. Lutters, and Lee Boot, “Rethinking recruitment for adolescent online communities,” pdf
Helle Kannik Haastrup, “Communicating Film Culture on the Internet – participatory Culture and Community Cross-Media,” doc
Germaine Halegoua, “Web 2.0 and Institutionalized Spaces: The Museum Community as Case Study,” doc
Darren R. Hardy, “Discovering behavioral patterns in collective authorship of place-based information,” pdf
Trevor S. Harvey, “Remixes, Cadavres, and Virtual Rock Bands: Forming Community through Musical Collaboration,” pdf
Caroline Haythornthwaite, “Community Cohesion & Connectivity,” doc
Simone Heidbrink, “”Religious Communities in Virtual Space”,” pdf
Ellen Johanna Helsper and William Dutton, “Global Research on Digital Engagement,” pdf
Ellen Johanna Helsper and William Dutton, “Global Research on Digital Engagement,” pdf
Ken Hillis, Jillana Enteen, and Michael Petit, “Google You, Google Me: The Cultural Politics of Internet Search,” pdf
Jon Hoem, “Spatial webpublishing and bricolage,” pdf
Kim Holmberg and Isto Huvila , “Social capital in Second Life,” rtf
Courtenay Honeycutt and Daniel Cunliffe, “(Re)creating Welsh-speaking communities in Facebook: An initial investigation,” pdf
Yu-li Hsieh, Kelly Quinn, Yu-kei Tse, Margaret E.C. Griffith, Ishani Mukherjee, and Zachary Benjamin, “Beyond Offline versus Online: Exploring Effects of Technology Convergence on The Formation of Identity and Virtual Community,” pdf
Sal Humphreys and Axel Bruns, “Collaborative Local Content Creation through edgeX: An Evaluation,” pdf
Nina B Huntemann, Mia Consalvo, Matthew Thomas Payne, and Dmitri Williams, “Get in the Game: Innovations in Ethnographic Game Research,” pdf
Tim Roger Benjamin Hutchings, “Conflict in the Online Church: Power, Authority and Vision in Christian Communities,” doc
Lizzie Helen Jackson, “Adventure Rock and the BBC’s social media strategy for children,” pdf
Tom J. Johnson, Shannon L. Bichard, and Weiwu Zhang, “Communication Communities or “Ghettos?”: A Path Analysis Model Examining Factors that Explain Selective Exposure to Blogs,” pdf
Christopher Richard Jones, Lone Dirckinck-Holmfeld, Caroline Haythornthwaite, and Etienne Wenger, “Rethinking Networks, Communities and Learning,” pdf
Sigrid Jones, “Flickr Central: photosharing in current netculture,” pdf
Veronika Kalmus, Andra Siibak, Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt, and Pille Runnel, “Conforming communities vs. creative individuals: Are there alternatives to social networking communes?,” pdf
Tingyu Kang, “Homeland Re-territorialized: revisiting the role of place, territory, and landscape in the formation of diasporic identity in the digital age,” doc
Nan Ke, “Ethnic Online Community: Navigate Life for Sojourning Chinese in the United States?,” doc
Michael Keren, “Opinion Leaders in Blogging Communities,” pdf
Brian W. King, “Your space or mine? Language and sexual spatialisation online,” doc
Lisbeth Klastrup, “Web 2.0 politics – when does it work?,” txt
Dai Kojima, “”Bitch, please!”: Understanding identity, violence and participation in an online video blog community,” doc
Arne Haskjold Krumsvik, “Ambivalence Towards Online Communities in Mainstream News Media,” pdf
Richard Lachman, “BROADCAST TELEVISION AND ONLINE COMMUNITIES: TWO CASE STUDIES,” pdf
Sean Lawson, “From Network Society to Network-Centric Warfare: Articulating Theories of Information-Age Warfare in the U.S. Military,” pdf
hangwoo lee, “Informational Self-Determination in Korea,” doc
Vilma Lehtinen and Vesa Luusua, “Stalking on a Second Level,” doc
Arja Lemmetyinen and Frank M. Go, “Cruise Baltic Web Site Story. A network of destinations branding online – what makes it challenging?,” doc
HAN-TENG LIAO, “A Webometric Comparison of Chinese Wikipedia and Baidu Baike and its Implications for Understanding the Chinese-speaking Internet,” pdf
Leah A Lievrouw, “Mediation, New Media, and Communication Theory,” doc
M. Beatrice Maria Ligorio and Roberto Cordeschi, “Blended teaching to foster blended community,” doc
M. Beatrice Maria Ligorio & Paola F. Spadaro, “Activity and Actions as Networks: a Mixed Method Proposal to Study Asynchronous Interactions,” doc
Stine Lomborg, “Rethinking cognition: towards a socio-cognitive approach to studying new media,” pdf
Eileen Luebcke, “The Non-Exclusive Linkage of Culture in Videoconferences: An Analysis of Intercultural,” pdf
Maren Luebcke, “In line or Out of Control? A general Research Framework to Analyse Threaded-Based Discussion Groups,” pdf
Marika Lüders, “Collaborative storytelling in Talhonia: exploring crucial constructs for use,” doc
henry nsaidzeka mainsah, “ETHNIC MINORITY YOUTHS’ EXPRESSIONS OF IDENTITY IN A NORWEGIAN SOCIAL NETWORK SITE,” doc
Annette Markham, Elizabeth A Buchanan, and Charles M Ess, “The US Institutional Review Board and Online Research Ethics,” doc
Igor Matic, “Internet Usage Among Foreing Students in the New York City: Re-definition of Space and Self-identity in the Virtual Space,” pdf
Daniela de Carvalho Matielo and Ana Waksberg Guerrini, “Digital inclusion and Web 2.0: experiences of Brazilian CTCs,” pdf
Frans Mäyrä, “Play in the Mobile Internet: Towards Contextual Gaming,” pdf
Mark McGuire, “Behind the fa?ade: regulation and control in physical and virtual communities,” rtf
Ericka Menchen Trevino, “Peer monitoring in everyday life: the case of a social bookmarking web site,” pdf
Sharon Melissa Meraz, “Online Community and Civic Engagement in Social Media News Aggregators,” doc
Nick Montfort and Scott Rettberg, “Implementation, Frequency, and ppg256 Reading,” pdf
Aimée Hope Morrison, “Make yourself at home: private life and public community in blog diaries,” doc
Torill Elvira Mortensen, “Breaking out of the game: Role-playing across online platforms,” doc
Torill Elvira Mortensen, Luca Rossi, Kristine Jørgensen, René Glas, and Thiago Falcão, “Beyond Gaming: Social uses of multi-user games,” doc
Vicki Ann Moulder and Jim Bizzocchi Bizzocchi, “Transcoding Place,” pdf
Timme Bisgaard Munk, “Why Wikipedia: Self-efficacy and self-esteem in a knowledge-political battle for an egalitarian epistemology,” pdf
Timme Bisgaard Munk, “Why Wikipedia: Self-efficacy, self-recognition and the lexical impulse in a knowledge-political battle for an egalitarian epistemology,” pdf
Karthika Muthukumaraswamy, “When the Media meets Crowds of Wisdom,” pdf
Thomas Nicolai, Lars Kirchhoff, Axel Bruns, Barry Saunders, and Jason Wilson, “Google Yourself! Measuring the performance of personalized information resources,” doc
Helen Nofrina, Vani Viswanathan, PeiQi Chen, Thanomwong Poorisat, and Benjamin H. Detenber, “Why Some Websites are More Credible than Others: Structural Attributes of Collaborative Websites as Credibility Cues,” doc
Gilda Olinto, “Everyday life Internet use in Brazil: technological and social conditionings.,” doc
Alejandra Ospina, Jennifer Cole, and Jason Nolan, “GimpGirl Grows Up: Women With Disabilities Rethinking, Redefining, and Reclaiming Community,” pdf
Ann-Charlotte Palmgren, “Today’s outfit in Swedish Fashion Weblogs – An ethnographical study of the online body,” pdf
Camille Paloque-Berges, “Internet as playful business : interactive hypertext in net.art,” doc / rtf
Pat Parslow, Shirley Williams, Mike Evans, Karsten Øster Lundqvist, Rob Ashford, and Edwin Porter-Daniels, “eLearning Communities and spaces,” ocx
Christopher A Paul, “Welfare Epics?: The Rhetoric of Rewards in World of Warcraft,” doc
Matthew Payne and Brandon Bollom, “Operation Photoshop: The Self-Censorship of Images on U.S. Army Web Logs,” pdf
Celia Pearce, “Identity-as-Place: Trans-Ludic Identities in Mediated Play Communities–The Case of the Uru Diaspora,” pdf
Katy Elizabeth Pearce, “Explaining Internet Use in Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia,” doc
Soeren Moerk Petersen, Andrew M. Cox, Sigrid Jones, Edgar Gómez, Larissa Hjorth, and Amparo Lasén, “The new role of digital images and photos online,” pdf
Thanomwong Poorisat, PeiQi Chen, Helen Nofrina, Vani Viswanathan, and Marko M Skoric, “Why Do We Trust Wikis? The Impact of Collaborative Cues on the Perceived Credibility of Websites,” docx
Michal Piotr Pregowski, “Netiquette is not dead – how propagated values and personal patterns redefine our online identity,” doc
Daphne Ruth Raban, “The Effect of Self-Presentation on the Quality of Answers in Q&A Sites,” pdf
Neil Randall, “Scenes of Play: The Board Game Online,” pdf
Raquel Recuero, “Appropriations of Fotolog as Social Network Site: a Brazilian Case Study,” doc
Asa Rosenberg, “A Cultural Sociological Approach to Second Life,” pdf
Jen Ross, “Traces of self: online reflective practices and performances in higher education,” pdf
Leonie Margaret Rutherford, “Rethinking the place of genre in young adult reading communities online,” doc
Megan J Sapnar, “The Creative Labor of Commercial Web Design: Community, Code, and the Cultural Production of Flash in the New Economy,” doc
Ralph Schroeder, “Research Instruments: Driving e-Science?,” doc
Eva Johanna Schweitzer, “Going Negative: Virtual Attacks on German Party Web Sites in State, National, and European Parliamentary Elections,” pdf
Limor Shifman and Mike Thelwall, “The World in a Grain of Sand: Virtual Memetics and Invisible Globalization in One Internet Joke,” doc
Andra Siibak, “Visual self-presentation on social networking sites. Discrepancies between the “ought” and the “real”,” doc
Judith Simon, “Epistemic (Web) Communities: How Social is Knowledge in the Age of the Internet?,” pdf
Tjarda Sixma, “Gorean role-play in Second Life,” doc
Jorgen Skageby, “Forum, function and friction – online functionality discussions and conflict coordination,” pdf
Johnny Hartz Soraker, “The relative value of virtual relationships: A critique of objective measures of quality of life in virtual communities,” pdf
Jesper Taekke, “Organization in space and place,” pdf
Tang Tang, “Understanding User Exposure to the Internet: An Empirical Integration,” pdf
Claire Louise Taylor, “Latin American Cyberculture and Cybercommunities,” doc
Panayiota Tsatsou, “Digital divides in Greece: the role of everyday culture and decision-making in the field: A quantitative study,” pdf
Katrien Van Cleemput, “Authenticity and Subcultural Style in Adolescents’ Self-presentation on Social Network Sites.,” pdf
Martin A.L.C. van der Linden, “Tokyo, a transitional city of people networks,” pdf
Mariek Vanden Abeele, “Never alone? Symbolic proximity through instant messengers,” doc
Gina K Walejko and Thomas B Ksiazek, “Blogging from the Niches: The Sourcing Patterns of Political and Science Bloggers,” pdf
Gina K Walejko and Thomas B. Ksiazek, “Blogging from the Niches: The Sourcing Patterns of Political and Science Bloggers,” doc
Shaojung Sharon Wang and Junhao Hong, “The Role and Function of Blogs in China’s Social Transformation: The Battle between the Government and the Public,” pdf
Shirley Williams, Karsten Lundqvist, Robert Ashton, Michael Evans, Patrick Parslow, and Edwin Porter-Daniels, “Developing Community via the RedGloo Learning Landscape,” doc
Elijah L Wright, Jason Nolan, Shelia R. Cotten, and Alexandra Bal, “Is this the Diamond Age? Exploring competing goals for the OLPC project.,” pdf
Alyson Young and Anabel Quan-Haase, “Examining information revelation and Internet privacy concerns in social network sites: A case study of Facebook.,” pdf
Kirsty Ann Young, “Identity creation and socialisation: Experiences of active online social network users,” doc
Elaine Yuan, “Setting ‘alternative agenda’? — the use of Electronic Bulletin Boards in the virtual “Public Sphere” in China.,” doc
Huma Yusuf, “Discursive City: Negotiating Violence in Karachi,” doc