Christian thank you for your paper. I'm studying SNS currently and have recently read Boyd and Ellison in addition to Beer's response. Your paper is very useful too. Best regards Jeff Jeff McCarthy Marketing & Retail The Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Aytoun Campus Manchester UK M1 3GH Tel: +44 (0)7900 808230 Email: jeff.mccarthy@mmu.ac.uk Academia: http://mmu.academia.edu/JeffMcCarthy Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University's email disclaimer available on its website http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer

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Christian Fuchs <christian.fuchs@sbg.ac.at> 01/19/09 5:11 PM >>> Fuchs, Christian. 2009. Social Networking Sites and the Surveillance Society. A Critical Case Study of the Usage of studiVZ, Facebook, and MySpace by Students in Salzburg in the Context of Electronic Surveillance. Salzburg/Vienna: Research Group UTI. ISBN 978-3-200-01428-2.

Study: http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at/SNS_Surveillance_Fuchs.pdf Background Information: http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at/SNS_E.html -- --------------- Christian Fuchs Associate Professor eTheory Research Group ICT&S Center - Advanced Studies and Research in Information and Communication Technologies & Society University of Salzburg Sigmund Haffner Gasse 18 5020 Salzburg Austria christian.fuchs@sbg.ac.at Phone +43 662 8044 4823 Fax +43 662 6389 4800 http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at Blog: http://christianfuchs.wordpress.com Co-Editor of tripleC - open access online journal on cognition, communication and cooperation for a global sustainable information society: http://triple-c.at New Book: Fuchs, Christian. 2008. Internet and Society: Social Theory in the Information Age. New York: Routledge. 408 Pages. http://fuchs.icts.sbg.ac.at/i&s.html _______________________________________________ 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/