Mathemagenic

This is a note to myself (because I woke up thinking :); to be expanded later.

Weblog research challenges:

• Moving target
• Sociotecnical system (technology and practices of using it evolving together)
• Heterogenity: technology, practices
• Subcultures without clear borders (lots of "fussy logic" :)
• Population is unknown --> sampling
• "Teasing data" - lots of out there in public, but getting it is a challenge (distributed, heterogenious formats)
• Interpreting data - underlying practices are oftenunclear (invisible that matters!)
• Bloggers as researchers --> metablogging that changes practices
• Weblog researchers who blog --> changing the system
• Ethics: informed concent (unknown population :), involvement, public vs. personal...
• Complexity :)

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