First Monday July 2013

Readers:

First Monday has just published the July 2013 (volume 18, number 7) issue
at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current.

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

First Monday
Volume 18, number 7 - 1 July 2013

Zooming into an Instagram City: Reading the local through social media
by Nadav Hochman and Lev Manovich

Chat program censorship and surveillance in China: Tracking TOM-Skype and
Sina UC
by Jedidiah R. Crandall, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Jeffrey Knockel, Sarah
McKune, Adam Senft, Diana Tseng, and Greg Wiseman

Mantous and alpacas as weapons of the weak: Chinese spoof video and
self-expression online
by Alexander Lugg

E-petition systems and political participation: About institutional
challenges and democratic opportunities
by Knud Böhle and Ulrich Riehm

You followed my bot! Transforming robots into influential users in Twitter
by Johnnatan Messias, Lucas Schmidt, Ricardo Oliveira, and Fabrício
Benevenuto

Social play or social cheating? Another face of sociability in social
network games
by Suen de Andrade e Silva

Online newspaper repositories and Norwegian-Russian media frames of Svalbard
by Robert Wallace Vaagan

Dead media: Obsolescence and redundancy in media history
by Tara Brabazon

Review of "Captive audience: The telecom industry and monopoly power in
the new gilded age"
by Jason Nosek

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With the contents of the July 2013 issue, First Monday has published,
since May 1996, 1,286 papers in 206 issues, written by 1,731 different
authors.

Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,

Edward J Valauskas
Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday