First Monday May 2013

Readers:

First Monday has just published the May 2013 (volume 18, number 5) issue
at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current.

The following papers are included in this month's issue:

First Monday
Volume 18, number 5 - 6 May 2013

Mapping the global Twitter heartbeat: The geography of Twitter
by Kalev H. Leetaru, Shaowen Wang, Guofeng Cao, Anand Padmanabhan, and
Eric Shook

Navigating an imagined Middle-earth: Finding and analyzing text-based and
film-based mental images of Middle-earth through TheOneRing.net online fan
community
by Jennifer M. Grek Martin, Anatoliy Gruzd, and Vivian Howard

Envisioning the Internet: Implementing ‘disruptive innovation’ in media
organizations
by Tamar Ashuri

Estimating online audiences: Understanding the limitations of competitive
intelligence services
by David Kamerer

Measuring monographs: A quantitative method to assess scientific impact
and societal relevance
by Ronald Snijder

The pedagogical foundations of massive open online courses
by David George Glance, Martin Forsey, and Myles Riley

German politicians and their Twitter networks in the Bundestag election 2009
by Thomas Plotkowiak and Katarina-Stanoevska-Slabeva

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With the contents of the May 2013 issue, First Monday has published, since
May 1996, 1,270 papers in 204 issues, written by 1,703 different authors.

Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,

Edward J Valauskas
Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday