Searches of the papers at AoIR conferences and the journal indexes come up empty. Who is doing research on the social networking websites, such as Facebook, Myspace, XuQa, Tagworld, Catch-27, etc.??? If you know of any scholarly work on this phenomenon, please email me off list. Thanks. -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain
Or better yet, please reply on list. Names that spring immediately to mind are Danah Boyd, Lori Kendall and Terri Senft, and I hope they'll post some favorite references of theirs on the topic as well... hint hint. Nancy (whose undergrads are seriously into facebook)
Searches of the papers at AoIR conferences and the journal indexes come up empty. Who is doing research on the social networking websites, such as Facebook, Myspace, XuQa, Tagworld, Catch-27, etc.??? If you know of any scholarly work on this phenomenon, please email me off list. Thanks. -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain _______________________________________________ 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
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Alessandro Acquisti from the Dept of IS & Public Policy @ Carnegie Mellon is doing work on "Privacy and Rationality in Online Social Networks" which includes a good case study of Facebook usage. http://www.heinz.cmu.edu/~acquisti/ On Nov 12, 2005, at 10:10 PM, Mark D. Johns wrote:
Searches of the papers at AoIR conferences and the journal indexes come up empty. Who is doing research on the social networking websites, such as Facebook, Myspace, XuQa, Tagworld, Catch-27, etc.??? If you know of any scholarly work on this phenomenon, please email me off list. Thanks. -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain _______________________________________________ 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
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danah boyd is doing really interesting work on this - she has a weblog with links to papers, and you can probably find others through her work. Also check out the Many2many weblog with danah, Liz Lawley, Clay Shirky and other online social network researchers. Jill
Searches of the papers at AoIR conferences and the journal indexes come up empty. Who is doing research on the social networking websites, such as Facebook, Myspace, XuQa, Tagworld, Catch-27, etc.??? If you know of any scholarly work on this phenomenon, please email me off list. Thanks. -- Mark D. Johns, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Dept. of Communication Studies Luther College, Decorah, Iowa http://faculty.luther.edu/~johnsmar/ ----------------------------------------------- "Get the facts first. You can distort them later." ---Mark Twain _______________________________________________ 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
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