[Air-L] Livejournal sources, specifically the Russian segment

[Kate Raynes-Goldie]

Hi Martin,

I wrote two papers specifically on Livejournal a few years ago. Sadly,  
there doesn't seem to be much work on LJ, even though it has such a  
fascinating history and is tied in to so much of "deep" internet  
culture.

Hyperfriends and Beyond: Friendship and Social Norms on LiveJournal
David Fono and Kate Raynes-Goldie in M. Consalvo & C. Haythornthwaite  
(Eds.), Internet Research Annual Volume 4: Selected Papers from the  
Association of Internet Researchers Conference. Peter Lang. 2007.
http://k4t3.org/publications/hyperfriendship.pdf

Pulling Sense out of Today’s Informational Chaos: LiveJournal as a  
Site of Knowledge Creation and Sharing
Kate Raynes-Goldie. First Monday, 9(12). 2004.
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_12/raynes/

Best,
Kate



On 02/04/2008, at 12:10 PM, ep1curas at aol.com wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> I'm currently on fieldwork in Russia, researching how environmentalist
> bloggers make use of LJ in their social/political relations, and
> development and perfomance of personal identity. Basically the use
> value of the whole thing for these people :)
>
> I've been quite out of the loop with checking journals/Athens/Google
> Scholar and all the rest for the past little while, and was wondering
> if there were any studies I have missed. Anything that touches on
> Livejournal would be great, but anything dealing with specifically
> Russian facets would also be great..either in English or Russian.
>
> Normally I'd share full citations of sources I've already found to be
> useful, but I've been relegated to an internet cafe here and do not
> have any to hand. Off the top of my head though, Eugene Gorny's 2004
> study of 'national specifics' of Russian LJ is worth looking for, as  
> is
> 'Control+Shift', a book I think edited by Katie Teubener. Anything by
> Terri Senft is wonderful for LJ in general.
> Urgh..my memory is suffering..
>
> So yes..any sources that anyone could recommend would be gratefully
> received!
>
> Martin Calvert - ep1curas at aol.com
> Doctoral Researcher
> Department of Central and East European Studies
> Glasgow
> UK
>
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kate raynes-goldie
phd candidate, curtin university of technology
social technology consultant
blog: http://k4t3.org
skype: katierg