I hope that you are starting with the first social networking site. I guess you could call it the "Mother of all Social Networks". The Internet was designed at a social networking site to share information and ideas. Everything has moved from them so swiftly that we have lost sight of that intitial idea. Norman ________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org on behalf of danah boyd Sent: Fri 8/3/2007 4:00 AM To: aoir list Subject: [Air-L] history of social network sites Nicole Ellison and I are working on our intro for the special issue of JCMC on social network sites. One of the sections in our intro is a history of SNSs; we're vetting it publicly to make certain that there are no issues or errors. If this is something of interest to you, please check out: http://www.danah.org/papers/worksinprogress/ SNSHistory.html (Feedback obviously welcome, or rather begged for...) We are also trying to make certain that we have an up-to-date list of publications on the topic (for the lit review section). If you're working in this area or know this area, could you check out: http:// <http:///> www.danah.org/SNSResearch.html -- I'd love to know of work that's not listed here. Please please please chime up if you know something that's missing from this list. [Also, many of you responded a month ago when my essay on class and SNS spiraled a bit out of control. I haven't yet had the chance to respond to all of the thousands of emails and comments I received, but I did put together a long response to the major issues. If that's of interest: http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ ResponseToClassDivisions.html And I *really* appreciate the comments from folks from AOIR - they were far more constructive than most of what I received.] I hope everyone's having a fantastic summer! danah - - - - - - - - d a n a h ( d o t ) o r g - - - - - - - - "cuz i don't care if they eat me alive i've got better things to do than survive" musings :: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org <http://aoir.org/> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/