FYI, JCMC has a special theme issue for social network sites, such as MySpace and Facebook. http://www.ischool.berkeley.edu/~dmb/jcmc-sns/ Seungahn -------------------------------- Assistant Professor Community and Leadership Development University of Kentucky On 10/27/06, radhika gajjala <radhika@cyberdiva.org> wrote:

A student in our program here at Bowling Green requested me to post this for her

please email responses to Rucha K. at ruchak@bgsu.edu

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Panel Description (Rough draft)

Boulieu (2004) suggests that cyberspace as a site is not para- social and represents communities of deep social involvement, The issues that arise within cyberspace are "real" and therefore need to be examined to examine their social effects. This panel comprises of papers that look at new media technology and examine the social issues and mechanisms that are unique to them. Ideas like social interaction, identity creation, social need fulfillment and anonymity are explored in various cyber-sites like Facebook, Blogs and Instant messaging portals.

This is a very rough draft...we should be able to refine it as I get the abstracts:-) Thank you and take care Rucha

-- Radhika Gajjala Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator School of Communication Studies 302 West Hall Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, OH 43402 http://personal.bgsu.edu/~radhik/index2.html

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