First Monday January 2014

Readers:

First Monday has just published the January 2014 (volume 19, number 1)
issue at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current.

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

First Monday
Volume 19, number 1 - 6 January 2014

Emergency-relief coordination on social media: Automatically matching
resource requests and offers
by Hemant Purohit, Carlos Castillo, Fernando Diaz, Amit Sheth, and Patrick
Meier

Understanding the evolution of bona fide mixed-mode groups: An example of
Meetup groups
by Chih-Hui Lai

Rent-a-crowd? Crowdfunding academic research
by Rebecca English

#NBCFail: A qualitative review of the shared experience as a social movement
by Brendan O’Hallarn and Stephen Shapiro

Understanding the role of social media in online health: A global
perspective on online social support
by Roderick Lamar Lee and Lynette M. Kvasny

Redefinition of online scoops: Online journalists’ personal and
institutional responses to online scoops
by Jeongsub Lim

Does social media users’ commenting behavior differ by their local
community tie? A computer-assisted linguistic analysis approach
by Weiai Wayne Xu, Liangyue Li, Michael A. Stefanone, and Yun Raymond Fu

The effect that robots instead of spacemen landing on Mars can have on
spacecraft development
by John D. Cokley and Daniel Angus

-------

With the contents of this issue, First Monday has published, since May
1996, 1,339 papers in 212 issues, written by 1,816 different authors.

Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,

Edward J Valauskas
Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday