Category: transgender
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Building Community in Tag-Based Architecture
Since I only seem to write good things while I’m procrastinating, I’m going to spend another few hours avoiding revisions I need to do. First off: I recommend reading Mike Barthel’s recent essay at The Awl, What Are The Politics of The Internet? Though I don’t entirely agree with some of his conclusions, I think…
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Building a Vlogger Network on YouTube: A Visualization
One of the problems I’ve run across in working with YouTube is that its social network elements are tied us with its primary function as a platform for user-generate content (UGC). This content is also primarily user-filtered, based around the idea of “tags.” Presumably, a YouTube user “subscribes” to another’s videos because of the content.…