[Air-l] refs on myspace and facebook

[Bonnie Nardi]

Oh god, sorry everyone :(

Bonnie

On Nov 14, 2006, at 10:54 AM, Bonnie Nardi wrote:

> 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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>> - - - - - - - - - - d a n a h ( d o t ) o r g - - - - - - - - - -
>> "taken out of context i must seem so strange"
>>
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Bonnie A. Nardi
School of Information and Computer Sciences
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-3425
(949) 824-6534
www.artifex.org/~bonnie/