[Air-l] refs on myspace and facebook

[Bonnie Nardi]

Hi danah,

Would you mind giving me your opinion on a couple great cites to work 
in Facebook and MySpace? I looked at your site but I don't have time to 
go through it all and don't know what's the best stuff.

I would expect to cite your work, and would like to know what else. I 
hope this isn't too much trouble -- trying to get a proposal done. 
Thanks very much.

Re social networking sites and WoW, I think they cater to different 
needs. For social technologies such as phones, instant messaging, 
MySpace/Facebook, the goal is to maintain and intensify existing 
relationships. With games people are looking for entertainment. I 
always say "the game is the glue." People can come together even if 
they don't know each other and they have the game in common. It's quite 
amazing to watch this. If people really don't want to interact with 
strangers they probably would not choose to participate in Second Life, 
WoW, and many  other virtual worlds that are heavily social but also 
focused on some kind of shared activity. MySpace/Facebook are not 
social in the sense of people doing something together, as I understand 
them.

Anyway, I appreciate your perspectives on these issues and it helps me 
see things I might have overlooked.

Best wishes,

--

Bonnie


On Nov 1, 2006, at 11:45 AM, danah boyd wrote:

> Bonnie & others interested in this area - What i know thus far is
> listed on my site (and i'd encourage others to send me other articles
> that i should know about): http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/
> 2006/08/19/research_on_soc.html
>
> Also, Nicole Ellison and i are putting together a special edition of
> JCMC on social network sites.  Abstracts are due November 28: http://
> www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dmb/jcmc-sns/  I suspect that we will see a
> lot of interesting research there (and i'd encourage those of you
> working in this space to submit).
>
> Over the last 3 months, i've done a lot of reviewing of papers on
> social network sites.  I'd expect to see some work in this area
> coming out of CHI, First Monday, New Media and Society, and JCMC on
> the academic side.
>
> I also have three papers in various states of review that i'd be
> happy to discuss off-list with anyone who is working in this area.
> (I don't want to foul up the review process and i'm not certain that
> they will be accepted so they aren't public.)
>
> danah
>
> PS: It's not *that* impossible to reach me... although i do admit
> drownage.
>
>
>
> On Oct 31, 2006, at 11:52 AM, Mark Bell wrote:
>
>> Dr. Nardi,
>>
>> This is what I have on Facebook. For myspace I would consult danah
>> boyd (she is very hard to get a hold of her) or someone from her list
>> (link below).
>>
>> There is also an edition of JCMC that will be dealing with social
>> networks and facebook and MySpace will be mentioned. I am preparing a
>> submission for this now that studies homophily in Facebook groups.
>>
>> Facebook:
>>
>> Stutzman, Frederic (2006).An Evaluation of Identity-Sharing Behavior
>> in Social Network Communities. iDMa Journal (In press).
>> Burkart, Jenae Dissertation "College Social Networking; A Virtual
>> Ethnography of Facebook.com"
>> Stutzman, F. (2006) Our Lives, Our Facebooks. Presentation to the 2006
>> International Sunbelt Social Network Conference, Vancouver, BC.
>> (http://www.ibiblio.org/fred/pubs/stutzman_pub6.pdf)
>> Stutzman, F. (2006) Student Life on the Facebook. Originally a weblog
>> posting - non-traditional academic work. Document (12p, pdf).
>> http://www.msu.edu/~nellison/
>>
>> This is more general stuff.
>> General Social Software Research:
>> http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2006/08/19/
>> research_on_soc.html
>> - you should be reading danah's blog if you are into this.
>> http://chimprawk.blogspot.com/2006/10/announcing-unc-social-
>> software.html
>>
>> M
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Bonnie A. Nardi
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