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This month: December 2009 Political protest Italian-style: The blogosphere and mainstream media in the promotion and coverage of Beppe Grillo's V-day This paper analyzes the organization, promotion and public perception of “V–day”, a political rally that took place on 8 September 2007, to protest against corruption in the Italian Parliament. Launched by blogger Beppe Grillo, and promoted via a word–of–mouth mobilization on the Italian blogosphere, V–day brought close to one million Italians in the streets on a single day, but was mostly ignored by mainstream media. Information about V–day was transferred across heterogeneous nodes in a moderately robust and resilient core network of blogs. The organization of V–day represents the very first case, in Italian history, of a political demonstration developed and promoted primarily via the use of social media on the Web. |
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Also this month! Search engine use behavior of students and faculty: User perceptions and implications for future research This paper examines the use of Web search engines by faculty and students to support learning, teaching, and research. Although there are variations in search engine use among the faculty, graduate and undergraduate students surveyed, there is convergence in means of overall satisfaction with the outcomes of their searches and trust in search engines in supporting their studies and research. This paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of the findings for future search engine research and information practitioners. |
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Podcasts Eduardo Villanueva joins us for Part 2 of our ongoing series, entitled Openness 2.0, to discuss the economic, educational, and lingustic challenges of establishing openness in developing nations. |
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