First Monday February 2014

Readers:

First Monday has just published the Feburary 2014 (volume 19, number 2)
issue at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current.

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

First Monday
Volume 19, number 2 - 3 February 2014

The battle for ‘Trayvon Martin’: Mapping a media controversy online and
off-line
by Erhardt Graeff, Matt Stempeck, and Ethan Zuckerman

The rise of African SIM registration: The emerging dynamics of regulatory
change
by Kevin P. Donovan and Aaron K. Martin

Life on automatic: Facebook’s archival subject
by Liam Mitchell

‘Research in the wild’ in online communities: Reddit's resistance to SOPA
by Melissa Loudon

“You may have a cancer-causing virus and not even know it” Fear appeals in
online news
by Brad Love and Michael S. Mackert

Governing risks and benefits: Mobile communication technologies in British
universities
by Anita Howarth and Gemma Martínez Fernández

User investment and behavior policing on 4chan
by Matthew Trammell

In the realm of Big Data ...
by Antony Bryant and Uzma Raja

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With the contents of the February 2014 issue, First Monday has published,
since May 1996, 1,347 papers in 213 issues, written by 1,829 different
authors.

Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,

Edward J Valauskas
Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday