Mathemagenic

It's online as promised.

Efimova, L. & Ben Lassoued, A. (forthcoming) Weblog-mediated relationship: a co-constructed narrative, in S. Holland (Ed.) Remote relationships in a small world, Peter Lang Publishing.

Weblogs provide a fertile ground for finding interested others and getting into closer contact. As visible from our case, the beginning of this process can be asymmetrical and doesn't necessary imply a commitment to communicate from both sides, but over time blogging strangers can turn into blogging friends. Based on our own case we cannot provide definite answers why this happens, but there are a few factors that did it for us: reciprocity of potential benefits from communicating to each other, vulnerable writing and an ability to go beyond blogging in our choice of communication media.

A few notes:

• It refers to lots of existing bits and pieces:
• blog posts/comments that are treated as artefacts
  • most of those are linked from the text and I'll see if I can make a visualisation with linking (since not all of those appear referenced in the text)
  • those links (for obvious reasons) will not appear in the printed version
• meta-pieces (drafted fragments of the paper)
• Co-constructing: a story of weblog-mediated relationship
• Artefacts of a weblog-mediated relationship: a visualisation
• Blogging as learning vs. blogging as knowing 
• Edges
• visuals on Flickr
• Co-constructed narrative (1)
• Co-constructed narrative (2) (with notes)
• Artefacts of a weblog-mediated relationship (with notes)
• I have permission to post it online, but only till the book is published (somewhere in 2007). I don't really get the logic of it, but anyway - make sure you read it before that :)