First Monday February 2015

Readers:

First Monday has just published the February 2015 (volume 20, number 2) issue at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current.

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

First Monday
Volume 20, Number 2 - 2 February 2015

Ad hoc encounters with big data: Engaging citizens in conversations around tabletops
by Morten Fjeld, Paweł Woźniak, Josh Cowls, and Bonnie Nardi

Lifelong learning in the digital age: A content analysis of recent research on participation  
by Alison J. Head, Michele Van Hoeck, and Deborah S. Garson

Object, Me, Symbiote, Other: A social typology of player-avatar relationships
by Jaime Banks

Potential contributor perspectives on desirable characteristics of an online data environment for spatially referenced data 
by James Campbell

#Hashtagging hate: Using Twitter to track racism online
by Irfan Chaudhry

How to control the Internet: Comparative political implications of the Internet's engineering
by Steven Lloyd Wilson

ACT UP: A network’s resistance through constitutive rhetoric
by Franklin Nii Amankwah Yartey

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With the contents of the February 2015 issue, First Monday has published, since May 1996, 1,439 papers in 225 issues, written by 1,983 different authors.

Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,

Edward J Valauskas
Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday