Tag Archives: SNS

Social Networking Sites: to type oneself into being

Rutger van den Berg | 01 October 2009, 4:49 pm | tags: , , , , ,

“Typing oneself into being” sounds like a great way to summarize a person’s motive for online exposure. When you’re not online, you seem to be nowhere at all. Creating an online profile on a social networking site is an easy way to develop an online identity. IS this online profile is the basis for creating an online network or for extending your offline network?

The Social Paradox of Social Network Sites

Harro Heijboer | 30 September 2009, 5:51 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

When I was young, although with 26 years of age I’m not old, so let’s say; when I was younger, most of the time when I wasn’t in school I was playing with my friends on the streets. Playing street football (soccer for our American friends), organizing all kind of crazy clubs, building tree houses in the woods behind my…

Time to get social online, but why?

Yu-Fen Chen | 28 September 2009, 1:53 am | tags: , , , , , , , , ,

Why do we socialize online? Because “human beings are social animals,” Aristotle would say so.

Social Networking Sites (SNS); are we helping in the shrinking of our own privacy?

Sander Leegwater | 28 September 2009, 12:07 am | tags: , , , , ,

Social Networking Sites (SNS) are commonly known to just about everyone nowadays or so it seems, who doesn’t at least own a FaceBook, MySpace, LinkedIn, Hyves, Ning account or combinations of these and many, many others! But do you know who has access to them? What’s exactly on them? Are you sure their isn’t some hidden fact which you’d rather…

Social Network Sites – friend/Friend/defriend

Kimberley Spreeuwenberg | 27 September 2009, 11:18 pm | 2 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Social Network Sites (SNSs), like Facebook and Hyves, are focused on ‘Friendship’. As SNSs get more mainstream and infiltrate in our everyday lives the use of the term ‘Friendship’ becomes more problematic within the SNSs discourse. Using the labels of friend, Friend or defriend is not as obvious as it seems.

A Review of: Mapping E-Culture, Navigating E-Culture, Walled Garden

Sisi Yu | 17 September 2009, 1:18 am | tags: , , , , , ,

Mapping E-Culture, Navigating E-Culture, and Walled Garden, the three books coming along in a box, picture the general look of the electronic scenery we are in through the decade. Besides interviews to several key influencers, research essays and some recent projects as showcase, it also documents an international conference on communities and networks in the post-web 2.0 era.

So firstly what is Culture 2.0?

Facebook in a Socio-Cultural Aspect

Maria Perevalova | 11 October 2008, 9:16 pm | tags: ,

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’

Kai Henriquez | 06 October 2008, 1:17 am | 3 comments | tags: , , , , ,

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 of a distinctive way for site maintainers to connect its users.

SNS: Between Diversity & Online Cultural Schizophrenia

Alejandro Ortega Lozano | 05 October 2008, 11:00 pm | tags: , , , , ,

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 Nussbaum emphasized back in 1994 the importance of replacing notions…