[Air-L] Social network site nomenclature

[Jean Burgess]

Zing!

Thank you for a little light relief amid an interesting and (by its  
very existence) revealing debate.

Oh, wait, I didn't hit "reply all", did I?


On 13/05/2009, at 18:27, "Christophe Prieur" <christophe.prieur at liafa.jussieu.fr 
 > wrote:

>
>> Anyone agree/disagree?
>
> Well, why not arguing during 7 x 24 hours about the fact that on some
> SNS, there is this features that, if used uncarefully, makes people
> send personal messages to the whole world instead of to their intended
> recipient, which could result either in (a) some bastard being
> offended to be called such by some other, (b) a lawsuit against the
> SNS manager, (c) a hurricane blowing the shores of West Africa?
>
> _
>   Christophe Prieur,                                        prieur at liafa.jussieu.fr
>   Liafa, Université Paris-Diderot
>   [user experience research, social networks, (large) graph  
> algorithms]
> _
>
>
>
> Le 13 mai 09 à 10:00, Linda.Olsen at infomedia.uib.no a écrit :
>
>> Hi Kevin.
>>
>> I think the reason why some researchers still use "online social
>> networks" is that not all social networks on the Internet are bound
>> to a SNS.
>>
>> The way I see it, a SNS refers to a service that supports online
>> social networks (such as Facebook or LinkedIn). It would, however,
>> be quite tiresome and redundant to refer to them as "online social
>> network services", when SNSs no doubt all exist online. Social
>> networks, however, do not.
>>
>> Now, I don't know if some researchers also use ONS when they write
>> about Facebook or LinkedIn, but I would expect the term to appear
>> when dealing with social networks on the Internet in general, and
>> not when dealing explicitly with SNSs.
>>
>> Anyone agree/disagree?
>>
>> Linda
>>
>> Siterer Kevin Guidry <krguidry at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> Much of the available research refers to services such as Facebook
>>> and
>>> MySpace as "social network(ing) sites/services (SNS)."  Let's ignore
>>> for the moment the differences between those four permutations as  
>>> I'm
>>> more interested in learning about why some researchers use "online
>>> social networks (ONS)."  SNS seems to be much more common,
>>> particularly in the wake of the late 2007 JCMC special theme issue
>>> focusing on SNSs.
>>>
>>> Given that both terms are still in use, is there some sort of subtle
>>> cultural or discipline-based divide of which I am unaware?  Or is
>>> this
>>> just an oddity that isn't important or indicative of anything more
>>> than personal preference?
>>>
>>>
>>> Kevin
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