« The future of democracy | Main | Font pop » Friendingdanah boyd has a longer piece on friending and community in social networks (published at First Monday). danah's writing on social networks is authoritative (and she's probably very busy, since social networks are the fad du jour). Everything she writes is insightful. [Link] Part of what makes the negotiation of Friendship on social network sites tricky is that it’s deeply connected to participant’s offline social life. Their choice of Friends online is not a set of arbitrary personal decisions; each choice has the potential to complicate relationships with friends, colleagues, schoolmates, and lovers. Social network sites are not digital spaces disconnected from other social venues — it is a modeling of one aspect of participants’ social worlds and that model is evaluated in other social contexts.(Photo by Jon L.) jon posted this at 9:24 AM |
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