Dear Bercu, I have recently written an analysis of the key trends that are driving the evolution of social network sites and social media. Hope you will find it interesting! Here is the article: http://www.dotrising.com/2014/01/07/the-evolution-of-social-network-sites-in... I am drawing on Bernie Hogan's work on online exhibition spaces, and context collapse theories, as well as danah boyd and Nicole Ellison's 2013 updated definition of social network sites (as opposed to social networking sites and online social networks). Best wishes, Slava ************************** Vyacheslav 'Slava' Polonski Doctoral candidate Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford Follow me @slavacm M: +44(0)7814612177 E: vyacheslav.polonski@oii.ox.ac.uk ________________________________________ From: air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org [air-l-bounces@listserv.aoir.org] on behalf of Barry Wellman [wellman@chass.utoronto.ca] Sent: 07 January 2014 14:43 To: bbakiogl@gmail.com Cc: aoir list Subject: [Air-L] Social media text Dear Bercu, et al At least 20 profs have found the Rainie-Wellman Networked book to be a good social media text, in part because it provides social context and in part, by happy chance, it is 11 chapters long. If you do adopt it for a class of 20 or more, then you get either Lee Rainie or me to do a guest lecture by Skype, if you want. Happy Winter, Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ NetLab FRSC INSNA Founder Faculty of Information (iSchool) 611 Bissell Building 140 St. George St. University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 3G6 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman twitter: @barrywellman NSA/CSEC: Canadian and American citizen NETWORKED:The New Social Operating System. Lee Rainie & Barry Wellman MIT Press http://amzn.to/zXZg39 Print $20 Kindle $16 Old/NewCyberTimes http://bit.ly/c8N9V8 ________________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ The Air-L@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers 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/