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How Can We Study The Data of Social Networking Sites?

Bram Nijhof | 06 October 2008, 12:12 pm | tags: danah boyd, DMI, elfriendo, friendster, hyves, Jeffrey Heer, myspace, social networking sites, vizster, vriendjespolitiek.net

How can we make use of all the data stored in Social Networking Sites? And how can we study those data? In 2005 Jeffrey Heer and danah boyd developed a system called Vizster. It is an information visualization system that visualizes networks within the Friendster social networking service. Within networks there can be seen how networks are related…

Social Networking Sites and the Missing Half

Ben White | 04 October 2008, 6:00 pm | 2 comments | tags: Africa, africa interactive, africanews.com, cameroon, dana boyd, ebay, entrepreneur, ethan zuckerman, facebook, friendster, hyves, kenya, kiva.org, linkedin, microplace, mobile phone, mobile reporting, myc4, myspace, nairobi, online network, orkut, social network, social networking, social venture, tanzania

Dana Boyd describes “social networking sites” as “web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature

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Visualizing the network

Tjerk Timan | 22 May 2008, 7:05 pm | 9 comments | tags: Assignments, event, flickr, hyves, information visualization, infovis, mapping, media guild, myspace, social networks, tags, Waag Society

As a result of the course information visualization, a public screening was organized where all project teams involved got a chance to present their work at the Waag Society venue. Within a tight 6 minutes, concept explanation and implementation had to be given, in an almost pitch-like setting.
All projects result from a collaboration between the courses MHKU…

POLITICS: WEB 2.0 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

Roman Tol | 13 May 2008, 2:03 pm | 1 comment | tags: andrew chadwick, blogging, China, co-creation, collaborative government, collective intelligence, conference, cuiming pang, department of poitics and international relations, digital era governance, egham, greece, helen margetts, hezbollah, internet history, juba baghdad sniper, lisa McInerney, maura conway, micah sifry, michael turk, myspace, open source politics, participatory culture, paul zube, politics, politics 2.0, rachel gibson, rachel hayes, robin mansell, royal holloway university of london, severine arsene, terrorist videos, time person of the year 2006, trickle-up politics, web 2.0, youtube

Written for the Institute of Network Cultures
Crossposted at Institute of Network Cultures Weblog

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On April 17th and 18th 2008 the department of Politics and International Relations at the Royal Holloway University of London (RHUL) organized Politics: Web 2.0: an international conference. The conference was large and diverse, with six distinguished keynotes,…

International Delete Your Myspace Account Day: The Morning After is Elfriendo Day!

Esther Weltevrede | 29 January 2008, 10:29 pm | tags: elfriendo, international_delete_your_mySpace_account_day, myspace, social_networking, web2.0

Deleting your MySpace page is painful. You had friends, too few or too many. It had taken over your life, or you wish it had. Was your profile stale? Were you too active? The morning after International Delete Your Myspace Account Day elfriendo gives you a new look.

elfriendo.com – “Taking the work out of social networking”

elfriendo is…

Thanks for the add

Maarten van Sprang | 22 October 2007, 6:04 pm | tags: myspace, networking, web 2.0 review

Image by Scott Johnson Myspace started in 2003 as a stage for aspiring bands and musicians, but evolved from a subculture platform to a mainstream profiling and networking giant. I want to have a look at the social constructions within Myspace and how Myspace is being looked at after it has become the number one networking site.

Facebook and MySpace class distinctions

Anne Helmond | 26 June 2007, 10:47 pm | 5 comments | tags: ask the masters, facebook, myspace, Social networking site

danah boyd recently wrote an interesting article on “viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace.” She points out that class divisions have emerged and are being played out through aesthetics in Facebook and MySpace. I think this is one of the most interesting points in the article because I tend to “judge” the quality of…

True Crime Blogging

Michael Stevenson | 02 February 2007, 4:30 pm | 1 comment | tags: blog, myspace, Social networking site, surveillance

This site is an interesting mix of blogging and ~~amateur~~ online investigative journalism – trying to get more information on reported crimes by searching Google, MySpace, etc. Lots of advertising, though – true crime is a popular and lucrative genre across different media, I just hadn’t seen it blogged yet.

Update: Here is another one with a good, if…

Users let their guard down on social network websites, such as MySpace

Heleen van der Klink | 03 November 2006, 4:03 pm | 1 comment | tags: mapping issues, myspace, news item, world wide web

When I was at the netcraft website, I was redirected to another interesting article (from the washington post). The WP reports that internet users are very suspicious when they receive spam e-mails, but they let their guard down when they visit a social network website like

Daily Show: Social Networking

Roman Tol | 01 November 2006, 8:03 pm | 1 comment | tags: myspace, youtube

Tag Archives: myspace

POLITICS: WEB 2.0 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

International Delete Your Myspace Account Day: The Morning After is Elfriendo Day!

Thanks for the add

Users let their guard down on social network websites, such as MySpace

Daily Show: Social Networking

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