First Monday May 2015

Readers:

First Monday has just published the May 2015 (volume 20, number 5) issue at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current.

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

First Monday
Volume 20, Number 5 - 4 May 2015

Learning from failure: The case of the disappearing Web site
Francine Barone, David Zeitlyn, and Viktor Mayer-Schönberger

A change in the climate: Online social capital and the spiral of silence
by Kim Bartel Sheehan

Can regimes really discourage social networking? Urbanization, mobile phone use, and the dictator’s plight
by Shin Haeng Lee

Slacktivism and the social benefits of social video: Sharing a video to ‘help’ a cause
by Cat Jones

A brief history of Facebook as a media text: The development of an empty structure
by Niels Brügger

Controlling singularity: The role of online communication for young visual artists’ identity management
by Karin Hansson

The app-object economy: We’re all remix artists now
by Paul Caplan

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With the contents of the May 2015 issue, First Monday has published, since May 1996, 1,460 papers in 228 issues, written by 2,015 different authors.

Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,

Edward J Valauskas
Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday

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