'history' Tag

• Perils of Keyword-Based Bibliometrics: ISI’s ’1990 Effect’

  February 5, 2010

  Have you done historical bibliometric analysis of a scientific field or topic area and found that there is a massive increase in research articles after 1990?  Are you using ISI’s Web of Science and searching by topic or keyword?  If so, don’t make the same mistake I did: these results aren’t because of some sea [...]

  posted in Blog Posts by R. Stuart Geiger

• Evolving Governance and Media Use in Wikipedia: A Historical Account

  January 23, 2009

  In an age of information overload, the history of Wikipedia’s co-evolving media use and governance model gives us a powerful lesson regarding the way in which the development of social structures and media technologies are fundamentally interrelated in the digital era.

  posted in Conference Presentations by R. Stuart Geiger

• Virtual Worlds in 1996: The More Things Change…

  August 13, 2008

  I came across this 1996 review published in Entertainment Weekly of The Palace, Worldsaway, and Worlds Chat. These were the first graphical chat programs, a genre which became virtual worlds a half-decade later. The entire article is fascinating from a historical perspective, but the last paragraph in particular shows us how some things really do [...]

  posted in Blog Posts by R. Stuart Geiger