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Yardi, Sarita and Boyd, Danah
Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society . Oct2010, Vol. 30 Issue 5, p316-327. 12p.
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Polarization (Social sciences), Social groups, Homophily theory (Communication), Electronic discussion groups, and Virtual communities
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The principle of homophily says that people associate with other groups of people who are mostly like themselves. Many online communities are structured around groups of socially similar individuals. On Twitter, however, people are exposed to multiple, diverse points of view through the public timeline. The authors captured 30,000 tweets about the shooting of George Tiller, a late-term abortion doctor, and the subsequent conversations among pro-life and pro-choice advocates. They found that replies between like-minded individuals strengthen group identity, whereas replies between different-minded individuals reinforce in-group and out-group affiliation. Their results show that people are exposed to broader viewpoints than they were before but are limited in their ability to engage in meaningful discussion. They conclude with implications for different kinds of social participation on Twitter more generally. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Boyd, Danah
Conference Papers -- International Communication Association . 2007 Annual Meeting, p1-1. 1p.
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Social groups, Demonstrations (Collective behavior), Teenagers, Emigration & immigration, College students, and Collective behavior
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In March 2006, over 50,000 teenagers walked out of school to protest immigration policies. Using MySpace, SMS, and IM, they rallied their peers. Although larger protests had occurred earlier, these teens wanted their voices to be uniquely heard. In September 2006, 700,000 + youth joined a Facebook group to protest a new feature. By vocalizing their dissent in this medium, they forced the company to make changes. These events showcase the ways that youth are leveraging social media to build networks and magnify their voice. Both examples highlight how youth engage politically in publics that matter to them and to which they have access. Using social network tools, they leverage connections to spread messages virally, creating solidarity through friends and friends-of-friends. In this paper, I analyze different political practices by youth using social network sites. I also discuss how adults' failure to recognize such political acts discourages young people's engagement. Biography: danah boyd is completing a dissertation that explores how youth engage with digital publics like myspace, LiveJournal, Xanga, and YouTube. As a highly productive graduate student, danah has had her work published in several journals, edited volumes, and conference proceedings, and has presented her work in more than twenty academic venues. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Boyd, Danah
Conference Papers -- International Communication Association . 2007 Annual Meeting, p1-1. 1p.
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Online social networks, Interpersonal relations, Social networks, Social groups, Friendship, and Social network analysis
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In social network sites, friendship is a feature. It allows users to acknowledge other people on the system and to have their connection permanently cemented into the structure of the system... that is, until a breakup prompts an explicit destruction of the friend relationship both on and offline. This explicit articulation requires participants to consciously consider the social complications of adding or deleting someone. While friendship may seem like a simple matter, having to publicly list who is in and who is out is not that easy. In this paper, I will examine how friendship is constructed in social network sites, how it differs from traditional understandings of friendship, and how friendship technology has complicated the negotiation of relationships between people. I will focus primarily on the friending process in Friendster and MySpace, drawing on three years of ethnographic data. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Boyd, Danah
First Monday . Dec2006, Issue 12, p1-1. 1p.
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Social groups, Social networks, Social conflict, Social control, and Friendship
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‘Are you my friend? Yes or no?’ This question, while fundamentally odd, is a key component of social network sites. Participants must select who on the system they deem to be ‘Friends.’ Their choice is publicly displayed for all to see and becomes the backbone for networked participation. By examining what different participants groups do on social network sites, this paper investigates what Friendship means and how Friendship affects the culture of the sites. I will argue that Friendship helps people write community into being in social network sites. Through these imagined egocentric communities, participants are able to express who they are and locate themselves culturally. In turn, this provides individuals with a contextual frame through which they can properly socialize with other participants. Friending is deeply affected by both social processes and technological affordances. I will argue that the established Friending norms evolved out of a need to resolve the social tensions that emerged due to technological limitations. At the same time, I will argue that Friending supports pre-existing social norms yet because the architecture of social network sites is fundamentally different than the architecture of unmediated social spaces, these sites introduce an environment that is quite unlike that with which we are accustomed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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