Boyd, Danah m. and Nicole B. Ellison. (2007). “Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship”.
I found this article informative. It introduced me to new social networking opportunities I did not know about such as Ning as well as other social networking sites (SSN) and their history of popularity with users. I was amused to find out that some of the American networking sites that failed to attract American audience became popular abroad. For example, ”Orkut became the premier SNS in Brazil before growing rapidly in India” (p. 10). If they can make money there then that’s fine, if not, then I am sorry for the founders of these sites. This article makes me to produce another question not asked by the authors and that is thought piracy. Non-American SSNs such as those in Asia are shameless copies of the American SSNS. they make millions of $$$ and give nothing in return to the visionary who first came with the idea. My conclusion- it doesn’t pay to be brilliant. It’s better to be a parasite. But then I don’t think I said anything new here.
Ellison, Nicole B.; Steinfield, Charles and Cliff Lampe. (2007). “The Benefits of Facebook ‘Friends’: Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Network Sites”.
The authors analyze the use of Facebook from Pierre Bourdieu’s social capital angle. As I can’t stand Pierre Bourdieu and consider him a charlatan, I don’t even feel like writing an intelligent response to this article. I would be just bringing credibility to this guy and his zombie followers. Zombie because they don’t think for themselves, just repeat after their “master.”
The purpose of the author’s research was “to determine whether offline
social capital can be generated by online tools. The results of our study show that
Facebook use among college-age respondents was significantly associated with measures
of social capital” (p. 3).
Although some scholars indicated that the Internet decreases social capital (e.g. Nie “argued that Internet use detracts from face-to-face time with others, which might diminish an individual’s social capital” (p. 4) other scholars don’t agree. Numerous researches, including the authors, have shown that “that computer-mediated interactions have had positive effects on community interaction, involvement, and social capital” (p. 4).
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