Berkman Center’s Study of the Arab Blogsphere: Map and Terminology « Razaniyyat – رزانيّــــات
Critique of the Berkman study that mapped the Arab blogosphere. Very interesting discussion re mapping cultures from the ‘outside’; the politics of labelling, etc etc. “This whole labeling issue is first very simplistic and second it does not really help anyone to understand the Arab blogsphere as it is self-representing itself.”
Linked to from MediaShift where David Sasaki argues for participatory/collaborative research rather than scientistic mapping from outside the culture in question.
