[Air-L] Taxonomy of Social Network Services

[Christophe Prieur]

I'm sure you all read French so i give you the following link :)

http://www.internetactu.net/2008/02/01/le-design-de-la-visibilite-un-essai-de-typologie-du-web-20/

The idea is to put on a map the various SNS according to two axis :
1. being / doing, from left to right
2. actual / imaginary (or something like that), from top to bottom

with five main patterns:
- paravent (cover screen ??)
- clair-obscur
- post-it
- lighthouse
- magic lantern

It's not a really seriously grounded typology for now, it's more like a
first try in order to help thinking about all this.  But i'm sure
Dominique will publish it eventually. :)

-- 
 Christophe Prieur        / prieur at liafa.jussieu.fr
 Sense, Orange Labs             / sociology of uses
 Liafa, University Paris-Diderot / graph algorithms

Christian Fuchs wrote:
> 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.
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org
>> [mailto:air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org] On Behalf Of Muhammad
>> Abdul-Mageed
>> Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 8:37 PM
>> To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
>> Subject: - Re: [Air-L] Taxonomy of Social Network Services
>>
>> 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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