Tag Archives: Social networking site

In search for universal language

Jan Bajec | 05 October 2009, 12:07 pm | tags: , , , , , , , , , , ,

Umberto Eco, a cultural critic, semiotician, and a writer said that we live in an age where the “diminutive, the brief and the simple are highly prized in communication” (Thurlow & Brown). New communication technologies can empower young people to explore and develop imaginative ways of making the technology work best for them. If we put Twitter in…

“ILNY, it’s a gr8 plc”

Radmila Radojevic | 05 October 2009, 11:01 am | tags: , , , , , , , , , , , ,

According to the recent statistic from ITU (International Telecommunication Union), in conjunction with UN, more than half of the globe population is subscribed to mobile telephony systems. And this number competes with that of the Internet subscribers. While mobiles have been prevailingly used in every day communication among young people (College and University students), the statistics has shown increasing number…

Collective writing: How literature is changed by the new medium

Suzanne Schram | 04 October 2009, 3:19 pm | tags: , , , , , , , ,

There are many variants of social networking sites. Some of them are based on an analog medium. The use of the Internet and the computer has resulted in that the digital medium differs from the analog medium. Examples of this are online encyclopedia such as: wikipedia, Filmaffinity, Flixster, ANobii. The last three examples are…

Ning’s Privacy Issues

Tim van Essen | 03 October 2009, 6:04 pm | 4 comments | tags: , , , , , ,

My background is not only media studies/theories but I’m also enrolled in the Bachelor program of Law at the University of Amsterdam. This post is about my critique on the interaction between privacy and user on Ning.com.

For class we had to do an assignment about the social networking site (SNS) Ning.com. Register, play and write about it.…

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?

Twitter Poetry and Mobility in Art

Marta Colpani | 01 October 2009, 3:27 pm | tags: , , ,

http://theothermother.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c28c69e2010534e39def970c-320piTwitter is the ultimate social networking site. The last trend for new media junks. Journalists, politicians, writers, artists, depressed teenagers, hyper-active middle-aged Internet addicted, new Iphone owners, everyone seems to be out there, on Twitter. Of course, because Facebook is so 2006.

What Twitter seems to scream is: back-to-basic. Twitter has basically only one function: you can only write a…

The Construction of an Online (Facebook) Identity

Charlotte Hendriks | 28 September 2009, 12:29 pm | tags: , , , , , , ,

The web has become something other than the illusive place where we can get as much information as we want at all times. More than a knowledge database, the Internet has transformed into a place where we can not only extend information, but also extend ourselves.

Social Networking sites have taken a huge jump in user numbers in the past…

Social Network Site vs. Social Networking Site?

Alessandro Valente | 06 October 2008, 2:37 am | 1 comment | tags: , ,

Boyd and Ellison give a useful definition for social network sites, that entails the minimum core functions a web-based application must have to be considered a SNS. But at the same time this definition falls short in defining what the core functions and uses for most popular SNS available are. Maybe because the definition shies away from mentioning that social networks sites are used for social interaction.

Web-Kare Review

Guido van Diepen | 21 September 2008, 10:52 pm | tags: , , , ,

Last week a new sort of web 2.0 application was launched in Japan. Web-Kare (Web-Boyfriend) is a social networking site for Japanese girls, which allows the girls to date a virtual boyfriend. There are four cartoon boys to choose from, and by interacting and flirting with these virtual boys, a relationship with one of them can be created. According to…