Social Network Sites

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".  Readings include:

• "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.