[Air-L] Taxonomy of Social Network Services

[Christian Fuchs]

the question of theoretical typologies of SNS is an interesting one. i 
also haven't seen such typologies. one could certainly typify them 
according to the societal role they have, i.e. based on which societal 
subsystem they belong to. so e.g. a distinction between economic SNS 
(job-, career-, business-oriented), political SNS, educational SNS, 
cultural SNS (friendships etc.).
but i think for doing so a social theory needs to be underlying the 
typology in order to clarify and ground the criteria that are used for 
the taxonomy.

christian

Alexander Semenov schrieb:
> Sorry, but I don't quite understand, what do you mean by "modality"? Could
> you explain it a little? Actually my purpose is general taxonomy or typology
> of Social Networking Services, just to map the area.
>
>
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>
> Hi,
> I think SNS can be taxonomized according to various criterion, including
> modality . Although most of them use different modality, some focus on
> specific modalities (e.g., YouTube's focus on video sharing, etc.). I guess
> the taxonomy would depend on what we want to do with it.
>
> --Muhammad
>
> Alexander Semenov <semenoffalex at googlemail.com> wrote: Hello everybody,
> Does anyone know any taxonomy of Social Network Services? I found non
> neither in danah boyd's bibliography, nor in JCMC special issue.
> Thanks in advance.
> Best wishes,
> Alexander Semenov.
>
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