[Air-L] - Re: Taxonomy of Social Network Services

Tue Feb 19 01:34:01 PST 2008

[Sorry, the same message with the right address in CC]

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. :)

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 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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>> New Book: Fuchs, Christian. 2008. Internet and Society: Social Theory in
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>> in
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>>
>> "two contradictory hypotheses: (1) that advanced (...) society is
>> capable
>> of containing qualitative change for the foreseeable future; (2) that
>> forces and tendencies exist which may break this containment and explode
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-- 
 Christophe Prieur        / prieur at liafa.jussieu.fr
 Sense, Orange Labs             / sociology of uses
 Liafa, University Paris-Diderot / graph algorithms
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 Christophe Prieur                 / prieur at liafa.jussieu.fr
 Sense, Orange Labs                  / sociologie des usages
 Liafa, Université Paris-Diderot / algorithmique des graphes