[Air-l] refs on myspace and facebook

Tue Nov 14 11:00:46 PST 2006

Bonnie,

Just a note. There is no overall shared activity in Second Life.

M

On 11/14/06, Bonnie Nardi <nardi at ics.uci.edu> wrote:
> 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"
> >>
> >> musings :: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts
> >>
> >>
> >>
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