Understanding chilling effects in the blogosphere

by Don P for Berkman Center at Harvard University

Web blogs have become an important form of web media in recent years. The rising trend of web based applications has turned end users who were mass information consumers to present information producers. For many people around the world, blogging has become a way to attain media stardom, however for some attention comes knocking in the form of a dreadful lawsuit threat that chills legitimitate online activity. More.. (See proposal of project)