Adams, A.A. & McCrindle, R.J. (2008). Pandora’s box: social and professional issues of the information age. Chichester: John Wiley.

Acquisti, A., & Gross, R. (2006). ‘Imagined communities: Awareness, information sharing, and privacy on the Facebook.’ In P. Golle & G. Danezis (Eds.), Proceedings of 6th Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (pp. 36-58). Cambridge, UK: Robinson College.

Anderson, B. (2006). Imagined Communities. Revised...

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The UK media regulator Ofcom recently called Britain a nation of social networkers, noting that Bebo, MySpace, Facebook and YouTube are all in the top ten internet sites in terms of the amount of time people spend there (Ofcom 2007). One in four UK citizens log onto a social network site at least 23 times each month, making the UK the most enthusiastic online social networking nation in Europe and second only to Canada in the...

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Media and Cultural Theory by Dr Stephen Hill and B. Fenner is an ideal guidebook for undergraduates studying a range of Media and Cultural Studies courses.

Covering over thirty theorists, the book is organised into ten chapters, each focusing on a specific theoretical strand.

Alongside more traditional forms like film, television and music, the book also makes reference to Facebook, YouTube and MySpace.

For the visual learner, each chapter is...

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Facebook // The new MySpace

MySpace A social networking website

TES Community / Message Board
Typepad Latest blogging resources.

Writing about transnational migration, Roger Rouse (1991) proposed a useful framework for understanding the role that communication plays in the maintenance of a social network. Rouse likens the sending and receiving of messages to a communications circuit. In the past, families and communities who were geographically separated have kept in touch by letter or by phone or by post. Each time two people communicate a circuit is opened and the...

Social Networks are hugely popular and venture capitalists have invested in them to the tune of many millions of dollars. However, in order to justify this investment, social network sites clearly have to produce a return on this investment, in other words they have to make money – vast amounts of it! The problem is that is it not clear how they are going to do this, especially given the fact that much of the content of social network sites...

In 2008, the Internet Safety Technical Task Force (ISTF) brought together leaders from Internet service providers, social network sites, academia, education, child safety and public policy advocacy organizations to discuss child safety issues online (Palfrey et al. 2008, 4).

Eight social network sites submitted to the Task Force (including Bebo, Facebook, Google Orkut and MySpace). All provide some kind of a technology-driven mechanism...

A focus on anonymous communication characterised early investigations into computer-mediated communication (CMC). This research continues today in research into avatar based communication environments such as Second Life. Academics based in this tradition have emphasised ideas about identity, masquerade, performance and performativity (Lister et al. 2009, 209).

A second overlapping tradition has been involved with the opposite idea of...

A flash mob is different from a smart mob; a flash mob is a spontaneous gathering of strangers who use media like social network sites and mobile phone in order to meet and perform a short task that is often absurd in nature and usually contrived to make an artistic or political statement. Flash mobs are organized secretively by e-mail or text message and subject to meticulous timing (Adams & McCridle 2008, 568). The phenomenon is intended to...

Social networking sites are one of a number of peer-to-peer technologies increasingly being used to inform and shape public opinion. Winograd & Hais  predict that the ability of voters to create as well as consuming content without filtering by experts will soon become the way people prefer to get all of their information (2008, 2).

The presidential campaign of 2006-2008 in the US was the first real test of the willingness of candidates to...

In this section we will look at the brief history of online social networking in the form of brief biographies of the most popular sites.

1995 Classmates.com

The site that has the distinction of being first social network site is generally regarded as Classmates.com created in 1995. This was an American precursor to the UK’s Friends Reunited site (1999). The site was a way for ex-students of American schools or colleges to contact their...

A second overlapping tradition that has informed the academic research on social networking has been sociological studies of community. The word community has been in existence since the fourteenth century It comes from the old French word comuneté, which in turn was derived from the Latin communitatem, which can be literally translated as ‘common’ (in the sense of shared relations or feelings). From the seventeenth century, the word took...

The difference between a social network and a group is that a group is a tightly-bounded set of people who share interests and whose activities are located in one particular place and time, whereas a social network is a more loosely bounded set of individuals whose activities range across a number of diverse interests and take place at various locations and times (Wellman 1999).

As Snyder, Carpenter and Slauson (2006) state, traditional...

The terms “social network site” or “social networking sites” are often used interchangeably and will be in this document. An online social network site is conceived as a new technological phenomenon, which is grounded on the idea of offline social networking. In modern times, offline social networks exists primarily in places such as homes, neighbourhoods, schools and offices. Wellman (1996) defines offline social networks as ‘relations...

Adams, A.A. & McCrindle, R.J. (2008). Pandora’s box: social and professional issues of the information age. Chichester: John Wiley.

Acquisti, A., & Gross, R. (2006). ‘Imagined communities: Awareness, information sharing, and privacy on the Facebook.’ In P. Golle & G. Danezis (Eds.), Proceedings of 6th Workshop on Privacy Enhancing Technologies (pp. 36-58). Cambridge, UK: Robinson College.

Anderson, B....

Media and Cultural Theory by Dr Stephen Hill and B. Fenner is an ideal guidebook for undergraduates studying a range of Media and Cultural Studies courses.

Covering over thirty theorists, the book is organised into ten chapters, each focusing on a specific theoretical strand.

Alongside more traditional forms like film, television and music, the book also makes reference to Facebook, YouTube and MySpace.

Click on the link to join us and start networking - it’s free. :)