The Social Catwork
The project The Social Catwork is based on the initial concept of Facebook, where the users were asked to pick which person out of two pictures they find more attractive. Our version, however, gives the user a choice of...
Be Careful whom You Friend. A Life of a Fake Facebook Profile.
Eva Janssen was born on the 15th October 2012. Being already 24 years old, she attends the University of Amsterdam. She is quite a usual girl. She listens to The Beatles and Moby, she watches Friends while eating Nutella...
Social Media: My concerns and why I quit Facebook
When I was just a little boy, there wasn’t yet a personal computer. Although we had a game computer (a Commodor 64), my brothers and I preferred to play with LEGO or Playmobile and we went very often outside...
Researching online music networking in the Web 2.0 era: Soundcloud and the demise of MySpace
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...
Does Facebook Rule? Ideas For The Future.
Facebook is everywhere. It connects 500 millions of people around the world. No doubts, it is an effect of purposeful endeavours of those who stay behind the success of the platform. It is becoming more and more interconnected into...
Dissemination of Social Network Sites
Social network sites are very popular within media studies. They are common research subjects. How often did you refer to Facebook or LinkedIn when writing an article? There is not one way to explore the universe of social media....
The Complexity of the Online Self
Cyberspace can both be considered a communication medium for “real” people and a place for people to take on different roles, for experimenting with different ways of behaviour, maybe even different identities. This possible online identity experimentation could change...
Txtng news in 140 characters
It is no news to us that text messaging is morphing our modern culture. In 2008, the British scholar David Crystal has observed how text messages in mobile phones and IMs can influence our live technologically, sociologically, psychologically, commercially, and...
SNS profiles: BlackPlanet vs Orkut
Started as a community site, but now more linked to the ‘category’ of social network site, BlackPlanet shows how race is established on the Web. ‘BlackPlanet.com is your place to meet and connect with African Americans around the country’,...
Facebook in a Socio-Cultural Aspect
According to the statistics the age majority of Facebook users is 19 albeit there are thousands of users aged more than 60.
An Easy Way to Meet Hot Chicks…Using ‘Tagged’
An easy to use web-based application incorporated in the social network site Tagged is described in this article. The "Meet Me" service allows users to find and meet others in a very easy way, and is a nice example...
SNS: Between Diversity & Online Cultural Schizophrenia
See also the complete ‘SNS: Between Diversity & On-line Cultural Schizophrenia’ Reflexion Here ‘The accident of where one is born is just that, an accident; any human being might have been born in any nation.’1 With these words Martha...
‘Hyves’ and ‘LinkedIn’. My Schizo-life
When people look at my profile on Hyves and LinkedIn they will find only one thing in common: my picture. There is a clear cut line between these two worlds, they are actually existing on two different physical locations...
Educating the Educators?
Social Networking Sites are increasingly becoming places where people articulate themselves, both aware and unaware sharing personal information to a huge society of internet users. Especially the exposure of young people online has been subject to anxieties and fears...
Time to get social online, but why?