: Issue
Network Visualization Tool (current)
Issue
Crawler Contextual History Essay [pdf]
(2007)
Issue
Crawler Back-end Movie (2005)
Information Politics on the Web (MIT Press,
Paperback, 2006) [html], "Best Book of the Year, ASIS&T, 2005"
Recent Academic Work
Subsuming the Ground: How Local Realities of the Ferghana Valley, Narmada Dams and BTC Pipeline are put to use on the Web (Marres / Rogers, Economy & Society, 2008) [pdf]
The Palestinian-Israeli peace process and trans-national issue networks: the complicated place of the Israeli NGO (Rogers / Ben-David, New Media & Society, 2008) [pdf]
The
Politics of Web Space (Rogers, 2008)
Issue Mapping & Essay: "Public Media Projects and their Publics" (Ford Foundation with
American University), 2007 [html]
Recent Info-political Graphics
The Demise of the Directory - Web Librarian Work Removed in Google (May
2008) [pdf]
A Website is Gone - The Drama of 911truth.org in Search Engine Space (September
2007) [html]
Recent Art Projects
Elfriendo.com - A MySpace-Related, Web 2.0-compliant European Start-up (2008)
Issue Celebrities - What Happens to the Issue after a Celebrity Endorsement? (2007) [html]
Govcom.org
Maps (current) [html]
Issue
Crawler Instructions of Use (current) [html]
A
Censor's Network: Iranian Social, Political
and Religious Sites. A Hyperlink Analysis
Method for Censored Website Discovery (December
2006) [updated pdf]
World
Summit on the Information Society Map Set
(2005) [html]
Issue
Crawler Scenarios of Use (current)
[html]
Web
Issue Index of Civil Society (2001-2006) [html]
[Issue
Ticker]
"Issuecrawler.net:
A Narrative of a Software Project" (Rogers,
2002) [html] [EASST Review]
Ruckus Techtools Action Camp: Who's here?
Who should be here? (June 2002). Map
explanation and photo.
[final map and data set pdf].
Govcom.org Publications (current) [html]
"The
Viagra Files: The Web as Anticipatory Medium"
(Rogers, 2003) [pdf];
Viagratool.org [html]
R. Rogers and N. Marres,
"French scandals on the Web, and on the
streets: A small experiment in stretching
the limits of reported reality,"
Asian Journal of Social Science,
30, 2, 2002, 339-353. (pdf)
Preferred
Placement: Knowledge Politics on the Web (Rogers
et al. 2000) [html]
"Mapping
Web Space with the Issue Crawler" (Rogers,
2006) [pdf]
Leaky Content: An Approach to Show Blocked
Content on Unblocked Sites in Pakistan - The
Baloch Case (November 2006) [method pdf]
[story pdf]
Climate
Change: U.S. Groups in International Context
(2005) [pdf]
Celebrities Have Favorite Issues - Quantity
of Celebrity Endorsement per Issue (February
2007) [pdf]
"Coming to Terms: Conflict Analysis of
the usage, in official and unofficial sources,
of 'security fence,' 'apartheid wall,' and
other terms for the structure between Israel
and the Palestinian Territories" (Rogers
& Ben-David, 2004-2005) [six-piece
pdf graphics set] [summary html]
[article pdf]
"The
Palestinian-Israeli peace process and trans-national
issue networks: The complicated place of the
Israeli NGO," (Rogers
& Ben-David, 2005) [pdf]
[summary]
The domain name
govcom.org, we realise, is not fully in the
spirit of the original RFC
on Domain Name System Structure and Delegation,
written in 1994 by Jon Postel. The RFC's
recommended that no domain name be repeated
in the name space like this:
edu.edu, or net.net. Combinations such as
netnet.net or eduedu.edu also
would not be in the spirit of those seminal
documents.
That notwithstanding,
Govcom.org is conceived as a project to map
debates on the Web
on important social issues. In general we
note that the major players
in those debates come from government (.gov),
industry (.com) and NGOs
(.org), with science (.edu) often playing
a lesser role than one would expect.
Govcom.org is meant as the domain where one
can follow some of these
debates on societal issues by looking at maps
that depict hyperlink and/or
discursive relations between leading parties
per issue.
To map the relations between
these parties, we found it necessary to chart
country subdomains,
so that we could depict global relationships
between generic
.gov's, .com's, .org's, as well as .edu's.
For example, .gov.al (Albanian
governmental sites) and .org.br (Brazilian
NGOs) would be mapped as
'government' and 'NGO', respectively.
Postel laid out
the world-wide generic domain names, and left
responsibility for
subdomains to the country registries. Many
countries have taken
over either the US domain equivalents for
their subdomains (.gov,
.com, .org, .edu, .net, .mil) or their linguistic
equivalents. Of the
245 or so country domain names, we found that
118 have .gov-type subdomain
equivalents, 128 .com-type equivalents, 125
.org-type equivalents,
108 .edu-type equivalents and 89 .net-type
equivalents. We also
found that the .name project (.nom, .per,
etc.) largely failed to attract
a following.
There are many subdomain
stories to be told, including the ones about
countries being
taken over by mainly US commercial interests,
whereby, for example,
.am (Armenia) is offered to US AM radio stations,
.md (Moldova) is offered
to American medical doctors and .la (Laos)
is offered to Los Angeles.
We offer a chart
of subdomains by country with a few disclaimers
about exhaustiveness.
The information has been compiled from norid.no,
the country nic's,
domain name sellers, and a few larger search
engines. If a country
nic has laid out its subdomain policy, then
we have taken it over literally.
If a country nic has not provided its policy,
then we have searched
for 'known practice' in various search engines.
Thus the chart is a
combination of official policy and known practice.
We have not, however, checked
the official policy of a country against their
known practice, e.g.,
whether the French are actually using all
the subdomains available to them.
(By and large, they're not.)
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