First Monday August 2014

Readers:

First Monday has just published the August 2014 (volume 19, number 8) issue at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current.

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

First Monday
Volume 19, Number 8 - 4 August 2014

Follow the money: A study of cashtags on Twitter
by Martin Hentschel and Omar Alonso

“There’s no place for lulz on LOLCats”: The role of genre, gender, and group identity in the interpretation and enjoyment of an Internet meme
by Kate M. Miltner

Increasing user participation: An exploratory study of querying on the Facebook and Twitter platforms
by Caren Crowley, Wilfried Daniels, Rafael Bachiller, Wouter Jossen, and Danny Hughes

Active players in a network tell the story: Parsimony in modeling huge networks
by Amit Rechavi and Sheizaf Rafaeli

The effects of ambient media: What unplugging reveals about being plugged in
by Jessica Roberts and Michael Koliska

A balancing act: The ideal and the realistic in developing Dryad’s preservation policy
by Sara Mannheimer, Ayoung Yoon, Jane Greenberg, Elena Feinstein, and Ryan Scherle

Activist capitals in network societies: Towards a typology for studying networking power within contemporary activist demands 
by Jakob Svensson

Pushback: Expressions of resistance to the “evertime” of constant online connectivity
by Stacey Morrison and Ricardo Gomez

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With the contents of the August 2014 issue, First Monday has published, since May 1996, 1,389 papers in 219 issues, written by 1,905 different authors.

Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,

Edward J Valauskas
Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday