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Record W2025192943 · doi:10.1504/ijpl.2009.024484

Introducing the vox populi of the wired world – how 'blogs' are evolving as dynamic web-based social networks

2009· article· en· W2025192943 on OpenAlexfundno aff
Akhil Prasad, Aditi Agarwala

Bibliographic record

VenueInternational Journal of Private Law · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicSocial Media and Politics
Canadian institutionsnot available
FundersUniversity of British ColumbiaMinistry of Education, IndiaIndian Institute of Management BangaloreUniversity of Westminster
KeywordsBlogosphereSocial mediaDemocracyInternet privacyWeb 2.0World Wide WebSociologyPublic relationsPolitical scienceThe InternetLawComputer sciencePolitics

Abstract

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With the advent of blogs, virtual communities are witnessing new horizons in social networking and democratic participation. This form of social media is attracting netizens from all quarters of the dot com stratosphere. For personal or professional purposes, an increasing number of people are subscribing to this social technology. This paper examines the cultural landscape of blogs and discusses the motives and the motivation behind the varying blog user behaviour. It further evaluates the growing influence of blogs and how corporates and politicians are utilising the media to advance their interests. Legal issues involved in blogging such as online libel, defamation, employment termination (doocing) are dealt with reference to case laws and reported events. It further throws light on what makes a blog successful in the marketplace of blogs – the blogosphere. In a nutshell, the paper evaluates the overall potential of blogs to evolve as highly dynamic web-based networks.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.003
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.014
Threshold uncertainty score0.022

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.003
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0050.014
Scholarly communication0.0140.011
Open science0.0010.004
Research integrity0.0030.004
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0070.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.017
GPT teacher head0.315
Teacher spread0.298 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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