Hi there AOIR-ites, As promised, I'm thrilled to announce that the special issue of JCMC on SNSs edited by danah and myself is now completely online and available! I am confident that those of you who study social network sites will find something of interest among the eight articles. Please take a peek. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication Special Theme Issue on "Social Network Sites" Guest Editors: danah boyd and Nicole Ellison http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/ - "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship" by danah boyd and Nicole Ellison - "Signals in Social Supernets" by Judith Donath - "Social Network Profiles as Taste Performances" by Hugo Liu - "Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites" by Eszter Hargittai - "Cying for Me, Cying for Us: Relational Dialectics in a Korean Social Network Site" by Kyung-Hee Kim and Haejin Yun - "Public Discourse, Community Concerns, and Civic Engagement: Exploring Black Social Networking Traditions on BlackPlanet.com" by Dara Byrne - "Mobile Social Networks and Social Practice: A Case Study of Dodgeball" by Lee Humphreys - "Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social Networking on YouTube" by Patricia Lange * * * Nicole Ellison, PhD nellison@msu.edu