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Month October 2005

4S notes: STS Meets Media Studies I

*Bridging S&TS and Communication Studies: Scholarship on Media and Information Technologies*
Pablo Boczskowski and Leah Lievrouw

The role of intention in tagging

Like many out in the online world, I’ve been thinking a lot about tagging lately. I’m totally on board with the whole folksonomy/user-defined taxonomy/emergent order/Wisdom of Crowds thing, and totally convinced that statistically aggregating the individual choices of a large pool of individual actors is an unbelievably valuable way to structure and move through massive [...]

Bookmark this!

So, as mentioned earlier, my friend Kevin has spent the summer flogging his book all across the USA. At his readings, he’s been asking people a single question: “What book changed your life?” Now, his publisher’s gotten into the act, inviting readers to describe their favorite book recommendations, *and* offering the chance to win 15 [...]