[Air-L] history of social network sites

[Constantine, Norman]

I hope that you are starting with the first social networking site. I guess you could call it the "Mother of all Social Networks". The Internet was designed at a social networking site to share information and ideas. Everything has moved from them so swiftly that we have lost sight of that intitial idea.
 
Norman

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From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org on behalf of danah boyd
Sent: Fri 8/3/2007 4:00 AM
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Subject: [Air-L] history of social network sites



Nicole Ellison and I are working on our intro for the special issue 
of JCMC on social network sites.  One of the sections in our intro is 
a history of SNSs; we're vetting it publicly to make certain that 
there are no issues or errors.  If this is something of interest to 
you, please check out: http://www.danah.org/papers/worksinprogress/
SNSHistory.html  (Feedback obviously welcome, or rather begged for...)

We are also trying to make certain that we have an up-to-date list of 
publications on the topic (for the lit review section).  If you're 
working in this area or know this area, could you check out: http:// <http:///> 
www.danah.org/SNSResearch.html  -- I'd love to know of work that's 
not listed here.  Please please please chime up if you know something 
that's missing from this list.



[Also, many of you responded a month ago when my essay on class and 
SNS spiraled a bit out of control.  I haven't yet had the chance to 
respond to all of the thousands of emails and comments I received, 
but I did put together a long response to the major issues.  If 
that's of interest: http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/
ResponseToClassDivisions.html   And I *really* appreciate the 
comments from folks from AOIR - they were far more constructive than 
most of what I received.]

I hope everyone's having a fantastic summer!

danah


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