Papers I've Read
Internetwork Ecology
Internetwork Ecology
Paper presented at the Association of Internet Researchers conference held in Brisbane, Australia in September 2006
Previous methods for studying the internet are not as effective as they could be because they tend to view networked media practices as solitary activities that exist on their own. Internetwork Ecology suggests that we should examine networked media as they exist together as part of a larger context of everyday media use. What happens when we treat the networks that make up the internet as though they were organised in the way that ecological systems are organised?
Like (1)Virtual Strangers, Imaginary Friends
Virtual Strangers, Imaginary Friends
paper published in the digital version of the Griffith Review
Adam Muir examines the nature of the social networks of the internet age, and how they are becoming increasingly more embedded in our everyday lives.
[note: this article was written for a general audience, and not an academic audience. It was written a couple of years before the "web2.0", "Social media" hype around social network services, so in a sense it foreshadows some themes that eventually became far more popular. ]