The Other Sociologist: “69 Billion Friendships” on Facebook – How Sociology Can Make This Meaningful
Thursday, 1 December 2011, 17:23
“Facebook’s research tells us about the links between a large sub-group of humanity – but it doesn’t say anything about what these connections mean.”
Guardian: Reading the Riots study to examine causes and effects of August unrest
Monday, 5 September 2011, 15:17
"Reading the Riots is modelled on an acclaimed survey conducted in the aftermath of the Detroit riots in 1967. The findings of that study, the result of a groundbreaking collaboration between the Detroit Free Press newspaper and Michigan's In…
Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science: Upper-income people still don’t realize they’re upper-income
Thursday, 21 April 2011, 10:07
Poll data suggests many rich people can't place themselves accurately on the US income distribution: "30 percent of these upper-income people say that upper-income people pay too little [tax], but only 6 percent say that they personally pay t…
Advertising Age: The New Yorker Decides Facebook ‘Like’ Is Good Enough
Wednesday, 13 April 2011, 10:51
"If, for a limited time, you go to The New Yorker's Facebook page and "like" it, you will gain access to a new essay from [Jonathan] Franzen that is also available to paying print and iPad subscribers. … Facebook has become vital …
New York Times: On Twitter, Conservative (or Liberal) by Association
Tuesday, 22 March 2011, 15:31
"Much of the discussion about over-sharing on social networks has focused on users not being able to escape from something they have said online. But a person’s connections are also revealing, as this research found."
New York Times: People Share News Online That Inspires Awe, Researchers Find
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 21:11
"Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania have intensively studied the New York Times list of most-e-mailed articles, checking it every 15 minutes for more than six months, analyzing the content of thousands of articles and controlling for factors like the placement in the paper or on the Web home page. … most of all, readers wanted to share articles that inspired awe, an emotion that the researchers investigated after noticing how many science articles made the list."
NYU Journalism “Primary Sources”: Jay Rosen and Clay Shirky
Sunday, 27 December 2009, 08:32
Interesting discussion from about the 7:16 mark, where Rosen discusses the "sociology of the newsroom" research of the 1970s and 1980s and its implications for a world where the production routines of the media are changing.
Time: Polarized News? The Media’s Moderate Bias
Friday, 6 November 2009, 13:58
"[The] news audience, if not news itself, is getting more polarized. But categories like Pew's 'liberal,' 'conservative' and 'neither' … overlook the most significant bias out there: moderate bias." (HT: Jeff Sonderman)
BBC iPlayer: The Media Show: 28/10/2009
Thursday, 29 October 2009, 10:07
Includes an interesting segment with Dr Natalie Fenton from Goldsmith's University "who argues that instead of democratising information, the internet has narrowed our horizons."
New York Times: Link by Link – The Amish Paper The Budget Explores a Move Online
Monday, 21 September 2009, 07:09
"For two weeks this summer, Jessica Best, a 22-year-old journalist from Wales, fell into that role as the intern at The Budget of Sugarcreek, Ohio, a weekly that is the largest newspaper serving the Amish."
New Scientist: ‘Infectious’ people spread memes across the web
Wednesday, 12 August 2009, 13:25
"Spanish researchers claim to have found a way to accurately predict how quickly and widely new pieces of information, or "memes" as they are called, will spread. The ability to forecast this 'viral' behaviour would be of great interest to sociologists and marketeers, among others."
Online Journalism Blog: How successful bloggers become bureaucratized too
Wednesday, 6 August 2008, 14:55
Paul Bradshaw reads an enthography of blogging: "just as the restricted space and time of mainstream media shape their output, so does the lack of restrictions shape the output of blogs: 'Whereas constraints necessitate routines, so does a lack of limits … bloggers have developed routine practices that narrow down possibilities.'"
Monday, 19 May 2008, 09:00
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"The thing the unites all the ‘sports’ that you read in the papers? Two things – they have a schedule: they’re regular, so newspapers can plan themselves around them; and they have spectators. … If a ‘sport’ doesn’t have a diary, then it can’t be
Wednesday, 16 January 2008, 18:57
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Edward Mischaud’s MSc thesis from the London School of Economics… Yes, it’s about Twitter.
