http://web2sociology.com/blog ongoing archeology of the Web and its instances of Web 2.0 and Social Media Wed, 07 Nov 2007 00:37:48 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There appears to be a slight stir regarding the impending irrelevancy of traditional academic journals and the formalized processes they enact when formulating their contents, which, of course, consist of submissions made by contributors to the field. The specific social process that is followed during the decision making regarding whose ... http://web2sociology.com/blog/2007/11/01/crashing-the-gates-of-the-academe/ To begin, you might take a moment’s pause when I mention that Foucault – who developed the analytic, Bio-power, used to understand power, its circulation, and its effects – had originally set out to study the development of sexuality.  One’s first inclination is to presume that sexuality has remained constant ... http://web2sociology.com/blog/2007/10/30/a-description-of-bio-power/ I had thought windows live writer to be a well integrated and multi-functional suite. However, this apparatus that I used for this post is integrated much more seamlessly with the Mozilla browser.  Additionally, for those who are doing research, scribefire offers a few unique functions that facilitates the process of ... http://web2sociology.com/blog/2007/10/25/changed-weblog-client-from-windows-live-writer-to-scribe-fire-2/ What is the role of authorship in the social context of Web 2.0? In order to begin to understand the transformation that has taken place - reshaping the institution of authorship as it existed previously to the expansion of Web 2.0 - it is useful to begin by examining ... http://web2sociology.com/blog/2007/10/23/authorship-in-web-20-2/ political sociology,public sociology,critical sociology,information society,network society American Sociopolitical Movements in Informationalism and the Network Society Abstract A working paper currently embodying the initial stages of analyses, which were created in reflection to observations gathered during ethnographic research conducted upon third-party sociopolitical movements in American society. The research included participant ... http://web2sociology.com/blog/2007/10/22/radicalized-sociopolitical-movements-in-informationalism-and-the-network-society/ The current enthusiasm concerning Public Education - facilitated through online communications - seems charged with a naive optimism, that neglects to perform considerations concerning the altered field in which the agents interact, effecting a condition, where the embodied aspects of dialog are stripped from the affair. The modifications in ... http://web2sociology.com/blog/2007/09/29/delusional-optimism-regarding-distance-learning/ Introduction to American Radicalized Sociopolitical Movements in Informationalism and the Network Society a working paper by Russell Cole After becoming versed in this typically neglected aspect to the American story [Populism and the People’s Party], I became fixated on the truly unique poignancy it deserved in any narration of American sociopolitical history; one ... http://web2sociology.com/blog/2007/09/10/restoring-to-populism-its-dignity/ The relationships assumed by documents belonging to intellectual discursive formations are undergoing a radical transformation, where not only the ability of researchers and information consumers to retrieve documents that are cited and referenced is expedited through the implementation of hypertext used to embed information regarding the referenced objects ... http://web2sociology.com/blog/2007/09/09/altering-grammar-of-human-intercourse-brought-about-by-intermediated-communications/ Shay’s Home is an organization that devotes its efforts to providing services to women and young males who have been processed through the incarceral system. Oftentimes individuals who exit from these conditions are exposed to conditions, which prove to be circumstances that lead to their re incarceration. Ostensibly, being introduced ... http://web2sociology.com/blog/2007/09/09/american-incarceral-industrial-comples/ In the course of developing an analytic with which to carve upon the objects and relations enveloped under the empirical domain I was investigating, I had made a distinction between Web 2.0 and Social Media.  I had treated Web 2.0 as a more abstract notion - under which Social Media ... http://web2sociology.com/blog/2007/09/08/distinguishing-web-20-from-social-media/