[Air-L] Taxonomy of Social Network Services

Wed Mar 12 05:03:15 PDT 2008

Hello

My colleague Esa Sirkkunen and I have defined social media genres at the 
University of Tampere and included social network sites as one of the 
genres. Comments and feedback appreciated. The list is so not perfect, 
but the best we have been able to accomplish so far.

* Social media genres*

1. Content creation and publishing tools
  - Blogs (includes also microblogging)
   - Wikis
   - Podcasts
 2. Content sharing sites (Flickr, YouTube, Del.icio.us, Ideawicket etc)
 3. Social network sites (facebook, Orkut, LinkedIn etc.)
 4. Collaborative productions (Wikipedia, OhMyNews, Blufton Today, Star 
Wreck)
 5. Virtual worlds (Second Life)
 6. Open interface applications

There is also possibility to continue/follow discussion from the Some 
Lab blog (Finnish social media researchers) 
http://www.somelab.fi/somelab/2008/03/12/social_media_genres_to_ponder. 
The genre list will be part of our research report Participatory 
economy. The report will be published before summer (pdf, free download) 
and also as a wiki to continue the research. If you are interested to 
contribute more, feel free to contact me. We especially look for other 
projects, research groups or authors to participate in presenting some 
milestones or highlights of the social media history of their own country.

With regards
Katri Lietsala
Parteco project

Conor Schaefer wrote:
> I thought it would be pertinent to this discussion to toss in this link
> about SNS usage by country (incomplete, of course...).
>
> http://www.lemonde.fr/web/infog/0,47-0@2-651865,54-999097@51-999297,0.html
>
> Similar things have been posted to the list many times, but I just
> happened upon this particular one. I wish you well in your research.
>
> T. Kennedy wrote:
>   
>> Not sure if this is what you're looking for
>>
>> There's a web 2.0 directory located Here:
>>
>> http://www.go2web20.net/
>>
>>
>> Also - a list of SNS I saw from someone on another list:
>>
>> MySpace: http://www.myspace.com
>> Facebook: http://www.facebook.com
>> Ryze: http://www.ryze.com
>> LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com
>> Orkut: http://www.orkut.com
>> Friendster http://www.friendster.com
>>  
>> Politically oriented OSNs
>> Essembly: http://www.essembly.com
>> DFALink: http://www.dfalink.com
>> PartyBuilder: http://www.democrats.org
>>  
>> For Second Life related OSNs, there are
>> SLProfiles: http://www.slprofiles.com
>> SLUniverse http://www.sluniverse.com 
>> BlogHud: http://my.bloghud.com
>> Rezzed: http://www.rezzed.net
>>  
>> For media sharing, there are the video sites
>> Youtube: http://www.youtube.com
>> Blip: http://ahynes1.blip.tv/
>> Flickr: http://www.flickr.com
>>  
>> MicroBlogs
>> Twitter: http://twitter.com
>> Jaiku http://jaiku.com
>> MySay http://www.mysay.com
>> Pownce: http://pownce.com 
>>
>> Reader Rolls
>> MyBlogLog: http://www.mybloglog.com/buzz
>> BlogCatalog: http://www.blogcatalog.com
>> BumpZee: http://www.bumpzee.com
>> BlogCave: http://www.blogcave.com
>>  
>> Tagging and Social Bookmarking sites:
>> del.icio.us: http://del.icio.us
>> StumbleUpon: http://stumbleupon.com
>> ma.gnolia.com: http://ma.gnolia.com
>> Digg: http://www.digg.com
>> Technorati: http://www.technorati.com
>> NewsTrust: http://www.newstrust.net
>>  
>> Reputation sites:
>> Wink: http://wink.com
>>  
>> Music preference sharing
>> last.fm: http://www.last.fm
>>  
>>
>> t
>>
>> ********************************************
>> Tracy L. M. Kennedy
>> PhD Candidate -
>> Department of Sociology
>>
>> Graduate Fellow -
>> Knowledge Media Design Institute
>>
>> Research Coordinator -
>> NetLab - Centre for Urban & Community Studies
>> University of Toronto
>> 725 Spadina Ave.
>> Toronto, ON M5S 2J4
>> tkennedy at netwomen.ca
>> www.netwomen.ca
>> www.kmdi.utoronto.ca/collaborative
>>
>> Research Director
>> Netwomen Consulting
>> *******************************************
>>     
---------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [Air-L] Taxonomy of Social Network Services
Date: 	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:28:54 +0100 (CET)
From: 	Christophe Prieur <christophe.prieur at liafa.jussieu.fr>
Reply-To: 	air-l at listserv.aoir.org
To: 	air-l at listserv.aoir.org
CC: 	dominique.cardon at orange-ftgroup.com
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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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