On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 6:51 AM, David Gauthier <[email protected]> wrote:
In the era of "big data," as a corpus, mailing lists are suprisingly
understudied (perhaps it is because they are so small... -- your entire
archive (1995-2016) is only ~210M and fits on my 2004 thumb drive).
Nonetheless, we believe that legacy systems, such as open crawlable
mailing lists (GNU Mailman/Pipermail/Mhonarc), may retrospectively, in
the future, provide a more lasting historical record of digital culture
than today's all enveloping corporate-guarded social media.
David and Marc
Absolutely. I was able to write a substantial part of my dissertation by
using various corpuses of mailing lists and analyzing them qualitatively
and quantitatively.
See:
https://www.academia.edu/27869809/Netroots_Organizing_from_Viral_Marketing_to_Barack_Obama_How_Berger_and_Luckmanns_Theory_of_Institutionalization_Resolves_the_Paradox_of_Embedded_Agency.
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