Tag Archives: myspace

Researching online music networking in the Web 2.0 era: Soundcloud and the demise of MySpace

Hans Terpstra | 28 September 2010, 4:37 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

MySpace passed on?
With the current steady rise of social networking sites, it is by all means an important question to ask how to research these in the field of new media studies. Furthermore, a lot of these sites offer services destined for a particular group of users. Of course when it only concerns interests like geology or animals, one can join…

Will Wikipedia end the disregarding of Swedish artist?

Chris Hoogeveen | 27 September 2010, 5:02 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Swedish singers are often disregarded. They won’t make it out side the Swedish borders. What happened there? Did publicity fall short? Didn’t MTV pick it up? Or is there some other reason why Swedish musicians mostly don’t appear on the radar? If you talk about Eskobar most people won’t even know what you’re talking about. Wikipedia will ask: did…

MUSIC: Is MySpace more important than an Official Website?

Janice Wong | 26 September 2010, 11:17 pm | tags: , ,

MySpace Music has become an easy way for musicians (solo artists and bands) to get exposure. Through Web 2.0 and the MySpace community means fans can connect to comment, put your song on their personal profile, and add you as a ‘top friend’, which means free PR for those involved.

And the results have…

Y this Generation?

Natalie Dixon | 26 September 2010, 7:15 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

To start understanding social networks and their ceaseless popularity it’s important to understand the people who use them most. Although it’s a mistake to generalize about an entire generation there are unquestionably some central themes that apply to Generation Y, the most active participants in social media that give us clues to why sites like Facebook and Myspace are so popular.

Review of The Digital Campfire – An Ethnography of Online Social Networking

Gwen Keupe | 17 September 2009, 11:22 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , ,

Ever felt guilty about spending so much time online, browsing through your friends Facebook pages and leaving them massages on their walls? No need for that anymore, this is what we’ve been doing for centuries and it can actually help you establish intimate relationships, expand your knowledge of the world and help you empower yourself (or, at least,…

A Review of: Taken Out of Context

Jelle Kamsma | 14 September 2009, 1:08 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , ,

She’s being called the rockstar of social network sites and has done some extensive research on the subject. The American academic Danah Boyd has now completed her PhD dissertation, “Taken Out of Context: American Teen Sociality in Networked Publics”, in which she examines the phenomenon. In her dissertation she takes a closer look at how…

Social Networking Sites and the Surveillance Society. (Study Review)

Margarida Fonseca | 13 September 2009, 3:10 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Christian Fuchs was born in Austria in 1976 and is currently an associate professor at the University of Salzburg.

He is mainly interested in Media and in Information society research and he’s the author of many scholar papers and of the book “Internet and Society: Social theory in the information age”.

On this study, “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”, Fuchs evaluates both on a quantitive and qualitative level a research done to see how students in Salzburg use Integrated Social Networking Sites (ISNS) in the context of the political and economic surveillance, focusing his study on three specific sites: StudiVZ, Facebook and MySpace.

Possibilities and threats for popstars in Web 2.0

Arno de Natris | 02 September 2009, 12:17 pm | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Popstars have an economic function, like filmstars. They promise a performance. They are the profit makers of the entertainment industries. From an ideological point of view, popstars maintain a myth of meritocracy. The industries and the stars themselves want to show that stardom stands for freedom and wealth and present this as positive, something everyone must have and therefore, everyone…

CBS: 29.000 Predators on MySpace

Arno de Natris | 16 April 2009, 3:34 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

The Internet gives the citizen possibilities for surveillance. Citizens use these possibilities when they think vertical surveillance fails. Especially children are put into discourses of surveillance as if they are members of a vulnerable group, not watched over by the state. They are (passive) preys who will be detected by pedophiles as practising predators in public and virtual spaces.…

Social Networking Sites, “To Be or Not To Be?”

Ali Balunywa | 07 October 2008, 9:30 am | 1 comment | tags: , , , , , ,

Ali Balunywa

The famous phrase “to be, or not to be” comes from William shakespeare’s Hamlet prince of Denmark (written about 1600), act three, scene one. It is one of the most famous quotations in world literature.

“ To be or not to be, that is the question;
whether ’tis nobler in the mind to…