Can anyone recommend some top of the line research on MySpace and Facebook? I'm looking for thoughtful academic work rather than journalists' accounts.
Bonnie - danah boyd recently compiled this list of all the published work she could find on her blog (http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2006/08/19/research_on_soc.html) I'd appreciate hearing any recommendations of articles not listed. * Acquisti, Alessandro and Ralph Gross. 2006. "Imagined Communities: Awareness, Information Sharing, and Privacy on the Facebook." Privacy Enhancing Technologies. Cambridge: June 28-30. * Adamic, Lada, Orkut Buyukkokten, and Eytan Adar. 2003. "A social network caught in the Web." First Monday. * Barnes, Susan. 2006. A privacy paradox: Social networking in the United States. First Monday. * boyd, danah. 2007. "None of this is Real." Structures of Participation (ed. Joe Karaganis). Duke University Press. * boyd, danah. 2006. "Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace." Talk as AAAS 2006 (part of panel: "It's 10PM: Do You Know Where Your Children Are ... Online!"). St. Louis, Missouri: February 19. * boyd, danah and Jeffrey Heer. 2006. "Profiles as Conversation: Networked Identity Performance on Friendster." Proceedings of the Hawai'i International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-39) , Persistent Conversation Track. Kauai, HI: IEEE Computer Society. January 4 - 7. * boyd, danah. 2004. "Friendster and Publicly Articulated Social Networks." Conference on Human Factors and Computing Systems (CHI 2004). Vienna: ACM, April 24-29. * Donath, Judith and danah boyd. 2004. "Public displays of connection." BT Technology Journal Vol 22, No 4. October, pp 71-82. * Ellison, Nicole, Charles Steinfield, and Cliff Lampe. 2006. "Spatially Bounded Online Social Networks and Social Capital: The Role of Facebook." Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Dresden, June 19-23. * Gajjala, Radhika. (in-progress) "Production of Raced and Classed Selves as (Stereotypical) Interface: Social Networks at the Intersection of Online/Offline, Global/Local." Cultural Studies Reader - edited by Michael Ryan. * Geidner, Nicholas, Christopher Flook and Mark Bell. (in review) "Male Self-Identification on Facebook.com." Communication Quarterly. * Gross, Ralph and Alessandro Acquisti. 2005. "Information Reveleation and Privacy in Online Social Networks." ACM WPES Workshop. * Heer, Jeffrey and danah boyd. 2005. "Vizster: Visualizing Online Social Networks." IEEE Symposium on Information Visualization (InfoVis 2005). Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 23-25. * Hewitt, Anne and Andrea Forte. 2006. "Crossing Boundaries: Identity Management and Student/Faculty Relationships on the Facebook." Poster/Extended Abstract, CSCW 2006. * Liu, Hugo, Pattie Maes, Glorianna Davenport. 2006. "Unraveling the taste fabric of social networks." International Journal on Semantic Web and Information Systems 2(1), 42-71, Hershey, PA: Idea Academic Publishers. * Marwick, Alice. 2005. "'I'm a Lot More Interesting than a Friendster Profile': Identity Presentation, Authenticity and Power in Social Networking Services." Association of Online Internet Researchers. Chicago. * Perkel, Dan. 2006. "Copy and Paste Literacy: Literacy Practices in the Production of a MySpace Profile." Informal Learning and Digital Media. Odense Denmark: September 21-23. * Recuero, Raquel. 2005. "Um estudo do capital social gerado a partir das Redes Sociais no Orkut e nos Weblogs." Trabalho apresentado no GT de Tecnologias da Comunicacao e da Informacao da COMPOS 2005, em Niteroi/RJ. (in Portuguese) * Spertus, Ellen, Mehran Sahami and Orkut Buyukkokten. 2005. "Evaluating similarity measures: a large-scale study in the orkut social network." Conference on Knowledge Discovery in Data. * Stutzman, Frederic. 2006. "An Evaluation of Identity-Sharing Behavior in Social Network Communities." iDMa Journal.