[Air-l] social networking and habbo dot com

[Alan Sondheim]

One question - I've been through Lacan and other psychoanalytical theory - 
and wonder if anyone has applied Piaget for example to social networks 
etc.? There's a great deal to be learned there - for example in relation 
to imaginary companions etc., which also connects to sociality.

- Alan


On Tue, 26 Apr 2005, Jill Walker wrote:

> I just read this article about online visual chat sites and girls' construction
> of avatars and identity - not exactly about social networks or habbo.com, but I
> found it really interesting:
>
> Angela Thomas. Digital Literacies of the Cybergirl - E-Learning, Vol. 1, No. 3.
> (2004), pp. 358-382.
> http://www.wwwords.co.uk/elea/content/pdfs/1/issue1_3.asp#3
>
> Jill
>
>> has anyone done any research on the habbo.com phenomenon or others like
>> it?  It is a "safe site" for kids 13-18 years old where they create
>> avatar characters and rooms for them, play games and chat.
>>
>> If anyone has information about other sites like this (I'm currently
>> looking into yub.com) or any information about articles on social
>> networking that take place in these kinds of spaces, I would love to
>> hear it.
>>
>> I could probably also use references that survey children's computer
>> use and studies of gendered behavior online.
>>
>> thank you all so much for this great list.
>>
>> Deanya Lattimore
>> ABD Syracuse, Composition & Cultural Rhetoric
>> http://www.deanya.com/
>>
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