[Air-l] facebook

[Mary L. Gray]

shameless self-promotion here:
I've got a piece on thefacebook as a means of mediating social  
distance. it'll be in the ASA journal, _Contexts_  ...it should be  
out in the issue after next.
I'd welcome feedback or thoughts on the draft if anyone's interested.
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Mary L. Gray, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication and Culture
Affiliate Faculty
Gender Studies Department and American Studies Program
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405-9700
ph. 812/855.4379
fx.  812/855.6014
email: mLg at indiana.edu
http://www.indiana.edu/~qcentral


On Nov 13, 2005, at 3:07 PM, air-l-request at listserv.aoir.org wrote:
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> Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 21:10:13 -0600
> From: "Mark D. Johns" <johnsmar at luther.edu>
> Subject: [Air-l] Facebook
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> Searches of the papers at AoIR conferences and the journal indexes  
> come
> up empty. Who is doing research on the social networking websites,  
> such
> as Facebook, Myspace, XuQa, Tagworld, Catch-27, etc.??? If you know of
> any scholarly work on this phenomenon, please email me off list.  
> Thanks.
> -- 
> Mark D. Johns, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Dept. of Communication Studies
> Luther College, Decorah, Iowa
> http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/