- The Rules of Beeping: Exchanging Messages Via Intentional "Missed Calls" on Mobile Phones
Jonathan Donner
Based on interviews with small business owners and university students in Rwanda, this article identifies three kinds of beeps and the norms governing their use, and assesses the significance of the practice using adaptive structuration theory.
- IM=Interruption Management? Instant Messaging and Disruption in the Workplace
R. Kelly Garrett and James N. Danziger
People who utilize IM at work report being interrupted less frequently than non-users, and they engage in more frequent CMC, consistent with claims that employees use IM in ways that help them to manage interruption.
- Email Flaming Behaviors and Organizational Conflict
Anna K. Turnage
Are the attributes listed in the literature on flaming considered characteristic of flaming by actual email users? This survey study finds that six of eight common attributes form a coherent set that correlates positively with perceptions of flaming.
- Take Me Back: Validating the Wayback Machine
Jamie Murphy, Noor Hazarina Hashim, and Peter O'Connor
This article applies tests of validity to the Wayback Machine, an archive of snapshots of the web. The results help validate WM measures of website age and number of updates and demonstrate the utility of the WM for studying evolving website use.
- The Impact of Language Variety and Expertise on Perceptions of Online Political Discussions
Kenny W. P. Tan, Debbie Swee, Corinne Lim, Benjamin H. Detenber, and Lubna Alsagof
The results of a study that manipulated Singapore English, together with information about the expertise of a discussant, provide very limited support for the significant effects of status cues on perceptions and participation.
- Every Blog Has Its Day: Politically Interested Internet Users' Perceptions of Blog Credibility
Thomas J. Johnson, Barbara K. Kaye, Shannon L. Bichard, and W. Joann Wong
In this study, blogs were judged as more credible than any mainstream media or online source. Both reliance on and motivations for using blogs predicted credibility, with information seeking a stronger predictor than entertainment.
- Writing for Friends and Family: The Interpersonal Nature of Blogs
Michael A. Stefanone and Chyng-Yang Jang
Personal bloggers who exhibit both extraversion and self-disclosure traits tend to maintain larger strong-tie social networks and are more likely to appropriate blogs to support those relationships, consistent with the view that CMC enhances existing relationships.
- Mein Nick bin ich! Nicknames in a German Forum on Eating Disorders
Wyke Stommel
This article demonstrates how nicknames that are used by participants in a German forum on eating disorders can be read as identity displays and how they may be related to eating disorders and to multifaceted femininity.
- University Instructors' Acceptance of Electronic Courseware: An Application of the Technology Acceptance Model
Namkee Park, Kwan Min Lee, and Pauline Hope Cheong
A path analysis shows the significance of a number of factors predicted by the Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) that influence university instructors' adoption and use of an Internet-based course management system.
- The Creative Commons and Copyright Protection in the Digital Era: Uses of Creative Commons Licenses
Minjeong Kim
Using a mixed-methods approach, this study characterizes Creative Commons (CC) licensors, the ways that they produce creative works, and the private and public interests that CC licenses serve.
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Special Theme: Social Network Sites
danah boyd and Nicole Ellison, Guest editors
- Social Network Sites: Definition, History, and Scholarship
danah m. boyd and Nicole B. Ellison
This introduction describes features of social network sites (SNSs), proposes a comprehensive definition, presents a history of their development, reviews existing SNS scholarship, and introduces the articles in this special theme section.
- Signals in Social Supernets
Judith Donath
Signaling theory can be used to assess the transformative potential of SNSs and to guide their design to make them into more effective social tools, for example, by leveraging publicly-displayed social networks to aid in the establishment of trust, identity, and cooperation.
- Social Network Profiles as Taste Performances
Hugo Liu
A social network profile's lists of interests can function as an expressive arena for taste performance. Based on a semiotic approach, different types of taste statements are identified and further investigated through a statistical analysis of 127,477 profiles collected from MySpace.
- Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites
Eszter Hargittai
Are there systematic differences between people who use social network sites and those who stay away? Based on data from a survey administered to young adults, this article identifies demographic predictors of SNS usage, with particular focus on Facebook, MySpace, Xanga, and Friendster.
- Cying for Me, Cying for Us: Relational Dialectics in a Korean Social Network Site
Kyung-Hee Kim and Haejin Yun
In-depth interviews reveal that Cyworld's design features encourage users to transcend the high-context communication of Korean culture by offering an alternative channel for elaborate and emotional communication which fosters the reframing of relational issues offline.
- Public Discourse, Community Concerns, and Civic Engagement: Exploring Black Social Networking Traditions on BlackPlanet.com
Dara N. Byrne
Participants on BlackPlanet are deeply committed to ongoing discussions about black community issues. However, none of these discussions moved beyond a discursive level of civic engagement, suggesting that the potential for mobilization through social networking online has not yet been realized.
- Mobile Social Networks and Social Practice: A Case Study of Dodgeball
Lee Humphreys
Dodgeball is a mobile social network system that seeks to facilitate social coordination among friends in urban public spaces. This study reports on the norms of Dodgeball use, proposing that exchanging messages through Dodgeball can lead to social molecularization, whereby active members experience and move through the city in a collective manner.
- Publicly Private and Privately Public: Social Networking on YouTube
Patricia Lange
Based on a one-year ethnographic project, this article analyzes how YouTube participants developed and maintained social networks by manipulating physical and interpretive access to videos. The analysis identifies varying degrees of "publicness" in video sharing, depending on the nature of the video content and how much personal information is revealed.
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