(Re: 1. maybe a silly question.. but (radhika gajjala) thread) Hi Radhika and AoiRers, I was having a very similar conversation about Livejournal vs YouTube (vs MySpace) and the vague consensus we left with was the livejournal was a social networking system since it is often (primarily?) used as conversation space, as emphasised by the Friends lists (which is basically an embedded RSS reader with fancy livejournal avataring). YouTube wants to be a social networking system where conversations flow across the various YT videos, but it's in a pretty primitive stage. This is particularly evident since the most popular YouTube-related social networking happens on a different website focused on YouTube (the YouTube Talk site: http://youtubetalk.com/). Sadly, MySpace seems to offer social networking functionality beyond YouTube (since many, many YouTube directors points their fans/commentators to their MySpace pages for networking purposes) and MySpace is probably the best popular middle-ground for media and social networking, despite the fact that its design can, at best, be described as horrifically ugly! Just my ten cents ... Btw, as an Australian AoIRer, I'm very much looking forward to seeing many of you in sunny BrisVegas in less than a month! Cheers, Tama -- Tama Leaver Centre for Advancement of Teaching and Learning (M400) University of Western Australia 35 Stirling Highway Crawley WA 6009 Australia Ph: (+61 8) 6488 1502 email: tama.leaver@uwa.edu.au blog: http://tama.edublogs.org CRICOS PROVIDER No. 00126G Quoting air-l-request@listserv.aoir.org:

1. maybe a silly question.. but (radhika gajjala)

Message: 1 Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 17:09:25 -0400 From: radhika gajjala <radhika@cyberdiva.org> Subject: [Air-l] maybe a silly question.. but To: air-l@listserv.aoir.org Message-ID: <a06230905c117ba488d9a@[192.168.1.102]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed"

why not ask, right?

Is livejournal a "social networking system"? why or why not? What about You tube?

r -- 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