First Monday October 2017

Readers:

First Monday has just published the October 2017 (volume 22, number 10) =
issue at http://firstmonday.org/issue/current.

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

First Monday
Volume 22, Number 10 - 2 October 2017

Why blogs endure: A study of recent college graduates and motivations =
for blog readership
by Alison J. Head, Michele Van Hoeck, and Kirsten Hostetler

Information access and information literacy under siege: The potentially =
devastating effects of the proposed 2017 White House budget on =
already-marginalized populations in the United States
by Courtney Douglass, Ursula Gorham, Renee F. Hill, Kelly Hoffman, Paul =
T. Jaeger, Gagan Jindal, and Beth St. Jean

Negotiating the thumbnail image: The transformative power of search =
engines and their "good enough" aesthetics=20
by Nanna Thylstrup and Stina Teilmann

Data literacies for the postdemographic social media self
by Anthony McCosker

Visualizing connectivity: Data as evidence in The Architecture of Radio
by Eef Masson and Karin van Es

Understanding Yik Yak: Location-based sociability and the communication =
of place
by Jordan Frith and Michael Saker

The labor of online product promotion: Barriers to collective action
by Daniel Carter

The impact of customer images on online purchase decisions: Evidence =
from a Chinese C2C Web site
by Mingming Dai and Leo Van Hove

The co-production of gender and ICT: Gender stereotypes in schools
by Eduarda Ferreira

Exploring HIV-AIDS interests in the MENA region using Internet based =
searches
by Ahmed Al-Rawi

Ubiquitous laptop use in higher education: Multitasking and students' =
perception of distraction in a European setting
by Manuel Goyanes and Daniel Catalan-Matamoros

Administrating social media: The significance of managers
by Azi Lev-On

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With the October issue, First Monday has published 1,701 papers in 257 =
issues, written by 2,370 different authors over the past 21 years.

Thanks for your continuing interest in our work,

Edward J. Valauskas
Chief Editor and Founder, First Monday=