Tag Archives: social network sites

Social Media: My concerns and why I quit Facebook

Maarten Jansen | 04 October 2011, 2:03 pm | tags: , , , , , ,

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 playing with other kids living in our neighborhood on the streets.
But then, when I was about 8 years old…

Twitter: the Perfect Blend of Internet Content?

Erik van Bemmelen | 11 October 2010, 3:18 pm | 6 comments | tags: , , , , ,

Twitter is a combination of different elements and content that other Internet sites and platforms already had. To me, this is what makes Twitter so great: in a way my usage of the Internet is being channeled and collected by one single website or app (depending on whether I access it via the Web or via my phone). It’s a…

Campaigning and advocacy via social network sites, are social movements on the right path?

Cristina Reyna | 26 September 2010, 10:55 pm | tags: , , ,

I do believe the Web 2.0 is shaping our societies, and much more the way users relate to each other.

Social movements are adopting very fast social media technologies in their communication strategy. They use social network sites mostly for campaigns, dissemination of information, news and awareness raising  among the public.

Raymond Williams in his essay The Technology and the…

Hyves, THE information source for companies

Floor Broer van Dijk | 26 September 2010, 4:57 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

How would I do research in web 2.0 and Social Network Sites? First I have to make clear for myself what web 2.0 exactly is. According to Tim O’Reilly, one of the founders of web 2.0, web 2.0 existed after the dot.com crash in 2001. In the…

Privacy Issue on Social Network Sites

Mares Kahrel | 26 September 2010, 10:18 am | 4 comments | tags:

Nowadays the privacy issue on Social Network Sites (SNS) is often being discussed. We all seem very concerned about whether the information we share on sites like Facebook are being shared with others, without our permission. We now are aware of the fact that our user profiles on Facebook, Hyves, MySpace etc. are being shared for advertising profits of third…

Dissemination of Social Network Sites

Chris Hoogeveen | 23 September 2010, 10:54 am | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

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. But what direction do you need to go to reach that academic level? Is a Marxist approach necessary…

How can Social Network Sites help artists to make money?

Jelle Kamsma | 01 October 2009, 1:00 pm | 3 comments | tags: , , ,

Big record companies like to blame the internet for the decreasing amount of albums that are being sold in the conventional shops. It seems to me that one of the main characteristics of big conglomerates like the record industry is their desire to resist change. They like to keep the status quo even if this means missing some great opportunities…

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: 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…