http://mabeam.net Sat, 07 Aug 2010 17:02:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A study I co-authored with two of my graduate school colleagues, Heather LaMarre and Kristen Landreville, was recently published in the International Journal of Press/Politics. It has garnered an amazing amount of press coverage and it's been viral around the net (we topped Digg.com!). In short, our study finds that ... http://mabeam.net/2009/05/02/the-irony-of-reporting/ Some posts on twitter from VincentR, ngeidner and me has inspired me to post a section from a response paper (slightly edited) I wrote for a course earlier this year. Maybe this will motivate me to start posting regularly again...we'll see. Anyway, here are my thoughts: I have a bone to ... http://mabeam.net/2009/03/04/a-criticism-of-relying-on-usenet-newsgroups-in-political-communication-research/ I've been pretty busy over the last year or so... The first year of graduate school was a huge change of pace for me. My career in IT was something that I didn't take home with me: once I was home, I had time to dive into other interests. ... http://mabeam.net/2008/02/17/back-on-the-air/ When I lived in Santa Barbara, I decided to try out living as a one car couple with my wife Jackie after my '95 Saturn died at 200,000 miles. Since Jackie has had the longer commute in both CA and OH, I have been living mostly car free as ... http://mabeam.net/2007/08/26/alternative-transportation/ I've been very busy with school and travel. This week we had our fifth annual Big Sur trip. While we were only able to stay for the first half of the week--we still have a blast. We got flat tires in two different cars on both our trip ... http://mabeam.net/2007/05/18/friday-night-links-2/ I just read this piece about a musical journey over at tinymixtapes and decided to reply (it keeps me away from schoolwork for a few minutes). I was a navy brat growing up. My parents were always really into music; their collection consisted of lots of great records: Beatles, Brubeck, ... http://mabeam.net/2007/05/18/musical-journey/ Lessig writes an open letter to Dems and Republicans asking to keep debate videos "open." This is timely as we were just discussing "open source" in my public opinion class. The items discussed in this article are great examples of how open models can contribute to public deliberation. Ohio University ... http://mabeam.net/2007/04/28/friday-night-links/ I am currently using all my courses to focus on my masters thesis project. I will be investigating the differences in information seeking behavior between users who customize their portals (rss feeds, bookmarks, etc.) and those who don't. Many people have commented on how they guess personalization will effect information ... http://mabeam.net/2007/04/26/customization-on-the-web/ It has been a decade since I wrote my first "web journal" entry over at underworld.net (now defunct). I'm starting this page to log my progress in academic projects as well as links relevant to communication technology and policy. http://mabeam.net/2007/04/26/fresh-start/