Anita Chan's Thesis regarding study on slashdot

[gaf at Blu.Org (Jerry Feldman)]

Several months ago, Anita made a short presentation to the BLU. She has 
since completed her masters thesis at the Comparative Media Studies
Depatment at MIT.
http://web.mit.edu/anita1/www/thesis/Index.html

If you are interested, please take a look at it. Any opportunity to provide 
help to MIT from the BLU community is appreciated since MIT has been great 
in providing us with a meeting place for all these years.
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The thesis is separated into 5 (hopefully) digestable chapters: an intro,
a 2nd chapter on user practices, another on editing practices,
a chapter on collective action, and a conclusion.

I would certainly welcome any feedback/criticisms/suggestions if you get a
chance to read through any portion of it - whether it be on factual
content and details, concepts presented or simple page design.

I should mention that all the names of users that were interviewed and
quoted in the chapters were changed to preserve their anonymity, which is
standard practice in social science writing. The only names of people who
were quoted that remained unchanged were those of the site editors.

Many many thanks for all your time and patience with this. Let me if
there are any questions you have as well about me or this study.

all best,
anita chan
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