[Air-L] Persistence and Change in Social Media

[Guillaume Latzko-Toth]

I haven't seen this news posted here yet so here it goes... Many 
thanks to Anabel and Bernie for putting this special issue together! 
--Guillaume

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A special issue on "Social Media" of the Bulletin of Science,
Technology & Society (BSTS) has just been released. Note that until
Oct. 15, all Sage journals are offering open access (upon free
registration).

Table of Contents (http://bst.sagepub.com/content/current ) October
2010; 30 (5):

Persistence and Change in Social Media - Bernie Hogan and Anabel Quan-Haase

Dynamic Debates: An Analysis of Group Polarization Over Time on
Twitter - Sarita Yardi and Danah Boyd

Tweeting Prayers and Communicating Grief Over Michael Jackson Online -
Jimmy Sanderson and Pauline Hope Cheong

Logging On and Letting Out: Using Online Social Networks to Grieve and
to Mourn - Brian Carroll and Katie Landry

Uses and Gratifications of Social Media: A Comparison of Facebook and
Instant Messaging - Anabel Quan-Haase and Alyson L. Young

Metaphors of Synchrony: Emergence and Differentiation of Online Chat
Devices - Guillaume Latzko-Toth

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Guillaume Latzko-Toth, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral fellow
Department of Communication
University of Illinois at Chicago