Volume 18, Number 7 - 1 July 2013

Table of Contents

Zooming into an Instagram City: Reading the local through social media
Nadav Hochman, Lev Manovich
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Chat program censorship and surveillance in China: Tracking TOM-Skype and Sina UC
Jedidiah R. Crandall, Masashi Crete-Nishihata, Jeffrey Knockel, Sarah McKune, Adam Senft, Diana Tseng, Greg Wiseman
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Mantous and alpacas as weapons of the weak: Chinese spoof video and self-expression online
Alexander Neish Lugg
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E-petition systems and political participation: About institutional challenges and democratic opportunities
Knud Böhle, Ulrich Riehm
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You followed my bot! Transforming robots into influential users in Twitter
Johnnatan Messias, Lucas Schmidt, Ricardo Oliveira, Fabrício Benevenuto
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Social play or social cheating? Another face of sociability in social network games
Suen de Andrade e Silva
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Online newspaper repositories and Norwegian-Russian media frames of Svalbard
Robert W. Vaagan
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Dead media: Obsolescence and redundancy in media history
Tara Brabazon
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Book Reviews

Review of Captive audience: The telecom industry and monopoly power in the new gilded age
Jason D. Nosek
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