RIAA vs. The People: Four Years Later

I found this fascinating; an indepth, quantitative and qualitative evaluation of the RIAA's campaign against illegal downloading of music by the EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation). Some of the methods used by the RIAA are little short of extortion, and a lot of it sounds really ruthless and also rather futile in the broader picture. The paper also gives a good overview about the way file sharing has gone underground - foregoing P2P software for private networks and "darknet technology" (simple CD ripping and burning) that are harder to trace.

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Just the Facts About Online Victimization

danah boyd links to media from a panel she was asked to speak on. The speakers presented quantitative and qualitative data on youth presence online and how they were exposed and responded to sexual and other forms of victimisation.

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An article on social networking that I find fascinating: A Group Is Its Own Enemy

It looks at social interaction online and the software that supports these kinds of interactions; but more than that, it delves into the fact that the way people relate and interact online forms both the bonds that grow a group and also tends to lead to the groups' own destruction at the same time, because of the mistaken assumptions made about how technology will/can/should change the way people behave.