Social Networking Sites -- eye-opening issue of the Journal for Computer-Mediated Communications
danah boyd, radical social scientist par excellence, sez, "It gives me unquantifiable amounts of joy to announce that the Journal for Computer-Mediated Communication special theme issue on 'Social Network Sites' is now completely birthed. It was a long and intense labor, but all eight newborn articles are doing just fine and the new mommies are as proud as could be. So please, join us in our celebration by heading on over to the JCMC and snuggling up to an article or two. The more you love them, the more they'll prosper!"
- "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship" by danah boyd and Nicole EllisonLink (Thanks, danah!)
- "Signals in Social Supernets" by Judith Donath
- "Social Network Profiles as Taste Performances" by Hugo Liu
- "Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites" by Eszter Hargittai
- "Cying for Me, Cying for Us: Relational Dialectics in a Korean Social Network Site" by Kyung-Hee Kim and Haejin Yun
- "Public Discourse, Community Concerns, and Civic Engagement: Exploring Black Social Networking Traditions on BlackPlanet.com" by Dara Byrne
- "Mobile Social Networks and Social Practice: A Case Study of Dodgeball" by Lee Humphreys
- "Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social Networking on YouTube" by Patricia Lange
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I think that it's all about being able to freely show yourself in different ways, facebook, videos or pictures or writing or reading or forums. I see sites that focus on profiles such as facebook, or forum sites such as yahoo, videos such as youtube, and some sites like JustExpressing that allow you to collect this different forms of expression in 1 place. It's an evolution.