In our research methods seminar this evening at the Berkman Center, we got into a spirited conversation about the challenges of surveying bloggers. In this seminar, we’ve been working primarily from a text called Research Confidential, edited by Eszter Hargittai (who happens to be my co-teacher in this experimental class, taught concurrently, and by video-conference, … Read more
Amid all the noise of the start of fall semester, Eszter Hargittai and I are launching a new experiment: a course taught jointly (and separately) at Northwestern University and at Harvard University on research methods in Internet & Society. We’ll post as much of the material as makes sense to a publicly-accessible wiki. Students can … Read more
A new Berkman/Gartner study on the power of recommendations and the impact on digital media sales, by Mike McGuire and Derek Slater, is to be published today.
A US federal judge today dismissed Ben Edelman‘s lawsuit to ensure that he could conduct research on filtering software. Ben wanted to be certain that he could conduct legitimate legal research on filtering software without violating the DMCA, other federal laws, and the user agreement from N2H2. This loss is yet another reason why the DMCA and … Read more