Sorry for not noticing some questions that Admin Noronha had asked. Here are my answers.
--- On Thu, 8/19/10, Frederick Noronha <[email protected]> wrote: > > Also, will your study be covering: > > 1. Partly moderated lists (where some of the members are > moderated)? > There is no technical difference between such a list, and an already included list wherein most members are moderated, but the moderators, administrators, owner(s) and some members may not be. > > 2. Lists whose public archives are not publicly available? > If I don't have access to them, I cannot use them. > > 3. Non-publicised, by-invite-only CC lists which are run without > >server-based software, but which function as un-unsubscribeable "mailing > >lists" of sorts? > Yes. I will use lists to which I have access. > > Incidentally, the first real sociological study on Goanet, > for those who might be interested, is here: > http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/goanet-news-goanet.org/2003-August/000276.html > I remember reading this excellent scholarly article on Goanet. But this is a qualitative description of the activities of the Goan cyber-commmunity. What I have initiated is a quantitative cyber-Goa-focused study of formation of social networks involving such things as word frequencies, sizes of networks, number of nodes, number of connections, evolution of networks and of shared terms and topics over time, etc. I am attaching privately to Admin Noronha a copy of a research paper detailing a related but different version (and a little bit more computationally sophisticated version) of what I am talking about. Cheers, Santosh
