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  Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and propose a comprehensive definition. We then present one perspective on the history of such sites, discussing key changes and developments. After briefly summarizing existing scholarship concerning SNSs, we discuss the articles in this special section and conclude with considerations for future research.

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  • We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system.
  • What makes social network sites unique is not that they allow individuals to meet strangers, but rather that they enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks.
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  • • After joining a social network site, users are prompted to identify others in the system with whom they have a relationship. The label for these relationships differs depending on the site—popular terms include "Friends," "Contacts," and "Fans.
    • Structural variations around visibility and access are one of the primary ways that SNSs differentiate themselves from each other.
    • Most SNSs also provide a mechanism for users to leave messages on their Friends' profiles.
    • Orkut, for example, was launched in the United States with an English-only interface, but Portuguese-speaking Brazilians quickly became the dominant user group (Kopytoff, 2004).
    • Some sites are designed with specific ethnic, religious, sexual orientation, political, or other identity-driven categories in mind. There are even SNSs for dogs (Dogster) and cats (Catster), although their owners must manage their profiles.
    • While SNSs are often designed to be widely accessible, many attract homogeneous populations initially, so it is not uncommon to find groups using sites to segregate themselves by nationality, age, educational level, or other factors that typically segment society (Hargittai, this issue), even if that was not the intention of the designers.
    • According to the definition above, the first recognizable social network site launched in 1997. SixDegrees.com allowed users to create profiles, list their Friends and, beginning in 1998, surf the Friends lists.
    • SixDegrees was the first to combine these features.
    • While SixDegrees attracted millions of users, it failed to become a sustainable business and, in 2000, the service closed
    • SixDegrees was simply ahead of its time
    • AsianAvenue, BlackPlanet, and MiGente
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    • Korean virtual worlds site Cyworld
    • Swedish web community LunarStorm
    • Ryze.com was launched in 2001
    • the people behind Ryze, Tribe.net, LinkedIn, and Friendster were tightly entwined personally and professionally
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      Timeline of the launch dates of many major SNSs and dates when community sites re-launched with SNS features
    • Friendster launched in 2002 as a social complement to Ryze
    • Friendster was designed to help friends-of-friends meet, based on the assumption that friends-of-friends would make better romantic partners than would strangers (J. Abrams, personal communication, March 27, 2003).
    • Friendster gained traction among three groups of early adopters who shaped the site—bloggers, attendees of the Burning Man arts festival, and gay men (boyd, 2004)
    • As Friendster's popularity surged, the site encountered technical and social difficulties (boyd, 2006b). Friendster's servers and databases were ill-equipped to handle its rapid growth, and the site faltered regularly, frustrating users who replaced email with Friendster
    • and a rupture of trust between users and the site
    • From 2003 onward, many new SNSs were launched, prompting social software analyst Clay Shirky (2003) to coin the term YASNS: "Yet Another Social Networking Service.
    • LinkedIn, Visible Path, and Xing (formerly openBC) focus on business people.
    • "Passion-centric" SNSs like Dogster
    • Couchsurfing connects travelers to people with couches
    • Care2 helps activists meet,
    • MyChurch joins Christian churches and their members
    • as the social media and user-generated content phenomena grew, websites focused on media sharing began implementing SNS features and becoming SNSs themselves. Examples include Flickr (photo sharing), Last.FM (music listening habits), and YouTube (video sharing).
    • Google's Orkut
    • Microsoft's Windows Live Spaces (a.k.a. MSN Spaces)
    • MySpace was begun in 2003 to compete with sites like Friendster, Xanga, and AsianAvenue, according to co-founder Tom Anderson (personal communication, August 2, 2007); the founders wanted to attract estranged Friendster users (T. Anderson, personal communication, February 2, 2006)
    • MySpace changed its user policy to allow minors. As the site grew, three distinct populations began to form: musicians/artists, teenagers, and the post-college urban social crowd.
    • July 2005, News Corporation purchased MySpace for $580 million
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  • We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site.
  • According to the definition above, the first recognizable social network site launched in 1997. SixDegrees.com allowed users to create profiles, list their Friends and, beginning in 1998, surf the Friends lists. Each of these features existed in some form before SixDegrees, of course. Profiles existed on most major dating sites and many community sites.
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      Timeline of the launch dates of many major SNSs and dates when community sites re-launched with SNS features
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  • Like other online contexts in which individuals are consciously able to construct an online representation of self—such as online dating profiles and MUDS—SNSs constitute an important research context for scholars investigating processes of impression management, self-presentation, and friendship performance.
  • Although exceptions exist, the available research suggests that most SNSs primarily support pre-existing social relations.
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  Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and propose a comprehensive definition. We then present one perspective on the history of such sites, discussing key changes and developments. After briefly summarizing existing scholarship concerning SNSs, we discuss the articles in this special section and conclude with considerations for future research.

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  Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and propose a comprehensive definition. We then present one perspective on the history of such sites, discussing key changes and developments. After briefly summarizing existing scholarship concerning SNSs, we discuss the articles in this special section and conclude with considerations for future research.

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  Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and propose a comprehensive definition. We then present one perspective on the history of such sites, discussing key changes and developments. After briefly summarizing existing scholarship concerning SNSs, we discuss the articles in this special section and conclude with considerations for future research.

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• 25 Jun 09
  

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  • In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and propose a comprehensive definition.
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  • • there are hundreds of SNSs, with various technological affordances, supporting a wide range of interests and practices. While their key technological features are fairly consistent
    • Most sites support the maintenance of pre-existing social networks, but others help strangers connect based on shared interests, political views, or activities
    • We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system.
    • While networking is possible on these sites, it is not the primary practice on many of them
    • On many of the large SNSs, participants are not necessarily "networking" or looking to meet new people; instead, they are primarily communicating with people who are already a part of their extended social network.
    • Structural variations around visibility and access are one of the primary ways that SNSs differentiate themselves from each other
    • Most SNSs also provide a mechanism for users to leave messages on their Friends' profiles
    • Beyond profiles, Friends, comments, and private messaging, SNSs vary greatly in their features and user base
    • it is not uncommon to find groups using sites to segregate themselves by nationality, age, educational level
    • According to the definition above, the first recognizable social network site launched in 1997. SixDegrees.com
    • and most users were not interested in meeting strangers.
    • and Friendster became the most significant, if only as "one of the biggest disappointments in Internet history" (Chafkin, 2007, p. 1).
    • While most dating sites focused on introducing people to strangers with similar interests, Friendster was designed to help friends-of-friends meet, based on the assumption that friends-of-friends would make better romantic partners than would strangers (J. Abrams, personal communication, March 27, 2003)
    • Because organic growth had been critical to creating a coherent community, the onslaught of new users who learned about the site from media coverage upset the cultural balance
    • Furthermore, as the social media and user-generated content phenomena grew, websites focused on media sharing began implementing SNS features and becoming SNSs themselves. Examples include Flickr (photo sharing), Last.FM (music listening habits), and YouTube (video sharing).
    • Then, in July 2005, News Corporation purchased MySpace for $580 million (BBC, 2005), attracting massive media attention. Afterwards, safety issues plagued MySpace.
    • although research suggests that the concerns were exaggerated.²
    • Blogging services with complete SNS features also became popular. In the U.S., blogging tools with SNS features, such as Xanga, LiveJournal, and Vox, attracted broad audiences
    • Unlike previous SNSs, Facebook was designed to support distinct college networks only.
    • Unlike other SNSs, Facebook users are unable to make their full profiles public to all users
    • Finally, anyone who wishes to create a niche social network site can do so on Ning, a platform and hosting service that encourages users to create their own SNSs.
    • To date, the bulk of SNS research has focused on impression management and friendship performance, networks and network structure, online/offline connections, and privacy issues.
    • Impression management is one of the reasons given by Friendster users for choosing particular friends (Donath & boyd, 2004)

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        Impression (persona) management is an increasingly important skill for students to master earlier in their lives.
    • Lampe, Ellison, and Steinfield (2007) explored the relationship between profile elements and number of Facebook friends, finding that profile fields that reduce transaction costs and are harder to falsify are most likely to be associated with larger number of friendship links.
    • Although exceptions exist, the available research suggests that most SNSs primarily support pre-existing social relations
    • These relationships may be weak ties, but typically there is some common offline element among individuals who friend one another, such as a shared class at school.
    • For instance, Lampe, Ellison, and Steinfield (2006) found that Facebook users engage in "searching" for people with whom they have an offline connection more than they "browse" for complete strangers to meet
    • Likewise, Pew research found that 91% of U.S. teens who use SNSs do so to connect with friends (Lenhart & Madden, 2007).
    • Finally, challenging the view that there is nothing educational about SNSs, Perkel (in press) analyzed copy/paste practices on MySpace as a form of literacy involving social and technical skills.
    • Judith Donath extends signaling theory to explain different tactics SNS users adopt to reduce social costs while managing trust and identity. She argues that the construction and maintenance of relations on SNSs is akin to "social grooming."
    • The fact that participation on social network sites leaves online traces offers unprecedented opportunities for researchers
    • Although the situation is rapidly changing, scholars still have a limited understanding of who is and who is not using these sites, why, and for what purposes, especially outside the U.S. Such questions will require large-scale quantitative and qualitative research.
    • Furthermore, only .08% of students surveyed by the National School Boards Association (2007) met someone in person from an online encounter without permission from a parent.
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  those in their network. Structural variations around visibility and access are one of the primary ways that SNSs differentiate themselves from each other.
  
  After joining a social network site, users are prompted to identify others in the system with whom they have a relationship. The label for these relationships differs depending on the site—popular terms include "Friends," "Contacts," and "Fans." Most SNSs require bi-directional confirmation for Friendship, but some do not. These one-directional ties are sometimes labeled as "Fans" or "Followers," but many sites call these Friends as well. The term "Friends" can be misleading, because the connection does not necessarily mean friendship in the everyday vernacular sense, and the reasons people connect are varied (boyd, 2006a).
  
  The public display of connections is a crucial component of SNSs. The Friends list contains links to each Friend's profile, enabling viewers to traverse the network graph by clicking through the Friends lists. On most sites, the list of Friends is visible to anyone who is permitted to view the profile, although there are exceptions. For instance, some MySpace users have hacked their profiles to hide the Friends display, and LinkedIn allows users to opt out of displaying their network.

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  • web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system.
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  • urthermore, as the social media and user-generated content phenomena grew, websites focused on media sharing began implementing SNS features and becoming SNSs themselves. Examples include Flickr (photo sharing), Last.FM (music listening habits), and YouTube (video sharing).
  • MySpace was begun in 2003 to compete with sites like Friendster, Xanga, and AsianAvenue, according to co-founder Tom Anderson (personal communication, August 2, 2007); the founders wanted to attract estranged Friendster users
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  • • MySpace was able to grow rapidly by capitalizing on Friendster's alienation of its early adopters. One particularly notable group that encouraged others to switch were indie-rock bands who were expelled from Friendster for failing to comply with profile regulations.
    • Bands were not the sole source of MySpace growth, but the symbiotic relationship between bands and fans helped MySpace expand beyond former Friendster users. The bands-and-fans dynamic was mutually beneficial: Bands wanted to be able to contact fans, while fans desired attention from their favorite bands and used Friend connections to signal identity and affiliation.
    • Teenagers began joining MySpace en masse in 2004. Unlike older users, most teens were never on Friendster—some joined because they wanted to connect with their favorite bands; others were introduced to the site through older family members. As teens began signing up, they encouraged their friends to join. Rather than rejecting underage users, MySpace changed its user policy to allow minors. As the site grew, three distinct populations began to form: musicians/artists, teenagers, and the post-college urban social crowd. By and large, the latter two groups did not interact with one another except through bands. Because of the lack of mainstream press coverage during 2004, few others noticed the site's growing popularity.
    • Blogging services with complete SNS features also became popular. In the U.S., blogging tools with SNS features, such as Xanga, LiveJournal, and Vox, attracted broad audiences.
    • Although SNSs like QQ, Orkut, and Live Spaces are just as large as, if not larger than, MySpace, they receive little coverage in U.S. and English-speaking media, making it difficult to track their trajectories.
    • The change to open signup did not mean that new users could easily access users in closed networks—gaining access to corporate networks still required the appropriate .com address, while gaining access to high school networks required administrator approval. (As of this writing, only membership in regional networks requires no permission.) Unlike other SNSs, Facebook users are unable to make their full profiles public to all users. Another feature that differentiates Facebook is the ability for outside developers to build "Applications" which allow users to personalize their profiles and perform other tasks, such as compare movie preferences and chart travel histories.
    • Some, like aSmallWorld and BeautifulPeople, intentionally restrict access to appear selective and elite. Others—activity-centered sites like Couchsurfing, identity-driven sites like BlackPlanet, and affiliation-focused sites like MyChurch—are limited by their target demographic and thus tend to be smaller.
    • The rise of SNSs indicates a shift in the organization of online communities. While websites dedicated to communities of interest still exist and prosper, SNSs are primarily organized around people, not interest
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  • While SNSs have implemented a wide variety of technical features, their backbone consists of visible profiles that display an articulated list of Friends¹ who are also users of the system. Profiles are unique pages where one can "type oneself into being"

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      Interesting because that doesn't seem to be what's emphasized by the design of most profile pages.
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  "Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and propose a comprehensive definition. We then present one perspective on the history of such sites, discussing key changes and developments. After briefly summarizing existing scholarship concerning SNSs, we discuss the articles in this special section and conclude with considerations for future research."

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  • hat makes social network sites unique is not that they allow individuals to meet strangers, but rather that they enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks. This can result in connections between individuals that would not otherwise be made, but that is often not the goal, and these meetings are frequently between "latent ties" (Haythornthwaite, 2005) who share some offline connection. On many of the large SNSs, participants are not necessarily "networking" or looking to meet new people; instead, they are primarily communicating with people who are already a part of their extended social network. To emphasize this articulated social network as a critical organizing feature of these sites, we label them "socia
  • Currently, there are no reliable data regarding how many people use SNSs, although marketing research indicates that SNSs are growing in popularity worldwide (comScore, 2007). This growth has prompted many corporations to invest time and money in creating, purchasing, promoting, and advertising SNSs. At the same time, other companies are blocking their employees from accessing the sites. Additionally, the U.S. military banned soldiers from accessing MySpace (Frosch, 2007) and the Canadian government prohibited employees from Facebook (Benzie, 2007), while the U.S. Congress has proposed legislation to ban youth from accessing SNSs in schools and libraries (H.R. 5319, 2006; S. 49, 2007).
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  • • Popular press coverage of SNSs has emphasized potential privacy concerns, primarily concerning the safety of younger users (George, 2006; Kornblum & Marklein, 2006). Researchers have investigated the potential threats to privacy associated with SNSs. In one of the first academic studies of privacy and SNSs, Gross and Acquisti (2005) analyzed 4,000 Carnegie Mellon University Facebook profiles and outlined the potential threats to privacy contained in the personal information included on the site by students, such as the potential ability to reconstruct users' social security numbers using information often found in profiles, such as hometown and date of birth.
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  Networking" emphasizes relationship initiation, often between strangers. While networking is possible on these sites, it is not the primary practice on many of them, nor is it what differentiates them from other forms of computer-mediated communication (CMC).
  
  What makes social network sites unique is not that they allow individuals to meet strangers, but rather that they enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks.

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  • We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site.
  • Profiles are unique pages where one can "type oneself into being" (Sundén, 2003, p. 3)
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  • • Not all social network sites began as such.
    • it is not uncommon to find groups using sites to segregate themselves by nationality, age, educational level, or other factors that typically segment society
    • the first recognizable social network site launched in 1997
    • SixDegrees.com allowed users to create profiles, list their Friends and, beginning in 1998, surf the Friends lists
    • most did not have extended networks of friends who were online. Early adopters complained that there was little to do after accepting Friend requests
    • "Passion-centric" SNSs like Dogster (T. Rheingold, personal communication, August 2, 2007) help strangers connect based on shared interests
    • MySpace differentiated itself by regularly adding features based on user demand (boyd, 2006b) and by allowing users to personalize their pages.
    • Teenagers began joining MySpace en masse in 2004
    • MySpace changed its user policy to allow minors
    • three distinct populations
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  Since their introduction, social network sites (SNSs) such as MySpace, Facebook, Cyworld, and Bebo have attracted millions of users, many of whom have integrated these sites into their daily practices. As of this writing, there are hundreds of SNSs, with various technological affordances, supporting a wide range of interests and practices.

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  • We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system.
  • they allow individuals to meet strangers, but rather that they enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks.
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  • Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and propose a comprehensive definition. We then present one perspective on the history of such sites, discussing key changes and developments. After briefly summarizing existing scholarship concerning SNSs, we discuss the articles in this special section and conclude with considerations for future research.
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  • Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and propose a comprehensive definition. We then present one perspective on the history of such sites, discussing key changes and developments. After briefly summarizing existing scholarship concerning SNSs, we discuss the articles in this special section and conclude with considerations for future research.
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  • they enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks
  • While SNSs have implemented a wide variety of technical features, their backbone consists of visible profiles that display an articulated list of Friends¹ who are also users of the system.
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  • • Structural variations around visibility and access are one of the primary ways that SNSs differentiate themselves from each other.
    • SNSs vary greatly in their features and user base
    • the first recognizable social network site launched in 1997
    • Most took the form of profile-centric sites
    • Unlike previous SNSs, Facebook was designed to support distinct college networks only.
    • a shift in the organization of online communities
    • primarily organized around people, not interests
    • "Friends" on SNSs are not the same as "friends" in the everyday sense; instead, Friends provide context by offering users an imagined audience to guide behavioral norms.
    • there are passive members, inviters, and linkers "who fully participate in the social evolution of the network"
    • most SNSs primarily support pre-existing social relations.
    • she argues that SNSs are "networked publics" that support sociability, just as unmediated public spaces do.
    • Scholars are documenting the implications of SNS use with respect to schools, universities, and libraries.
• 13 Jan 09
  

  Martin @web-strat.net

  scholarly discussioni of the history of social networks. Interesting!

  socialnetwork research web2.0

• 12 Jan 09
  

  Kyle Kim

  Social Network Sites Definition History Scholarship

• 10 Jan 09
  

  Madeline Brownstone

  socialnetworking web2.0 socialnetworks

• 05 Jan 09
  

  ranjana das

  PhD @ LSE

• 17 Dec 08
  

  Mohit Gupta

  danah boyd and nicole ellison

  research culture media web2.0 technology socialsoftware socialmedia myspace community social

• 14 Dec 08
  

  John Evans

  social network SNS definition history scholarship

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  Jeff Johnson

  Abstract: Social network sites (SNSs) are increasingly attracting the attention of academic and industry researchers intrigued by their affordances and reach. This special theme section of the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication brings together scholarship on these emergent phenomena. In this introductory article, we describe features of SNSs and propose a comprehensive definition. We then present one perspective on the history of such sites, discussing key changes and developments. After briefly summarizing existing scholarship concerning SNSs, we discuss the articles in this special section and conclude with considerations for future research.

  social network SNS definition history scholarship

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  Doug Peterson

  A short research history of social networking

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  Cynthia Garrety

  social web2.0 socialsoftware socialnetworking web technology socialmedia socialnetworks socialnetwork

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  Lee Kolbert

  This transcript came from here.
  “20070503transcript.pdf”

  Social_Networks cyberbullying safety

• 10 Dec 08
  

  Elaine Tay

  net24 net34 internetsocial internetstudies socialnetworking community history

• 08 Dec 08
  

  Alison Pope

  socialNetworking t175 ou facebook

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  Csaba Meszaros

  web2.0 definition

• 20 Nov 08
  

  Alex Smith

  social networking sites

• 10 Nov 08
  

  Little Wonder

  socialnetworking research web2.0 socialnetworks community definition paper academic boyd ellison

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  Dana Longley

  boyd, d. m., & Ellison, N. B. (2007). Social network sites: Definition, history, and scholarship. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 13(1), article 11.

  escsocialnetworking socialnetworking socialsoftware delicious

• 09 Nov 08
  

  anja c. wagner

  social-network research gestaltung

Public Stiky Notes

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  Josh Paluch on 2009-07-07
  Interesting because that doesn't seem to be what's emphasized by the design of most profile pages.
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  meg smeg on 2009-05-25
  Interesting idea...
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  Josh Paluch on 2009-07-07
  Impression (persona) management is an increasingly important skill for students to master earlier in their lives.
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  Jill Walker Rettberg on 2009-03-11
  Well, it shows the teens are in control of their own "identity management", right? I think this might be very different from case to case - in some cases fake info may be used in bullying or trickery, in others it's simply irony, like the 15 year old who says she's a widow and works in sewage (Lüders, "Why and how online sociability became part and parcel of teenage life", forthcoming). Obviously she doesn't expect anyone to believe that.
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  Kimberly McCollum on 2008-10-11
  Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Page Comments

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  Paul Gillin on 2007-11-24
  Extensive and useful background on origins of social networks and their characteristics.
  

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