The Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication has released their new issue, complete with a special "Social Network Sites" theme section. The JCMC notes that, to their knowledge, "this is the first published collection of research into this popular new phenomenon".
- "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship" by danah boyd and Nicole Ellison;
- "Signals in Social Supernets" by Judith Donath;
- "Social Network Profiles as Taste Performances" by Hugo Liu;
- "Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites" by Eszter Hargittai;
- "Cying for Me, Cying for Us: Relational Dialectics in a Korean Social Network Site" by Kyung-Hee Kim and Haejin Yun;
- "Public Discourse, Community Concerns, and Civic Engagement: Exploring Black Social Networking Traditions on BlackPlanet.com" by Dara Byrne;
- "Mobile Social Networks and Social Practice: A Case Study of Dodgeball" by Lee Humphreys;
- "Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social Networking on YouTube" by Patricia Lange.
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