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Danah Boyd

Why Youth Heart Social Network Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social

  • leekomuihas quoted10 years ago
    doing this, teens are taking social interactions between friends into the public
    sphere for others to witness.
  • leekomuihas quoted10 years ago
    . In reference to
    actions or texts, public often implies that the audience is unknown and that strangers may
    bear witness.
  • leekomuihas quoted10 years ago
    the properties of the mediating technologies, namely persis-
    tence, replicability, and invisible audiences.
  • leekomuihas quoted10 years ago
    While broadcast media take
    advantage of persistence, it is not as if anyone could go to the television and watch my
    fall whenever they wish, but if my fall is uploaded to YouTube or MySpace Video, this is
    possible.
  • leekomuihas quoted10 years ago
    Social network
    sites allow publics to gather. At the same time, by serving as a space where speech takes place,
    they are also publics themselves. The sites themselves also distinguish between public and
    private, where public means that a profile is visible to anyone and private means that it is
    Friends-only.
  • leekomuihas quoted10 years ago
    when I say that I embarrassed myself in public by tripping on
    the curb, the public that I am referencing includes all of the strangers who visually witnessed
    my stumble. The audience is restricted to those present in a limited geographical radius at
    a given moment in time
  • leekomuihas quoted10 years ago
    Mediating technologies like television, radio, and newsprint change everything. My fall
    could have been recorded and televised on the nightly news. This changes the scale of
  • leekomuihas quoted10 years ago
    is important to distinguish these sites as publics, not simply public, and networked publics,
    not simply publics.
  • leekomuihas quoted10 years ago
    In some senses, public is quite similar to
    audience as both refer to a group bounded by a shared text, whether that is a worldview
    or a performance.23 These words often collide conceptually because speaking to the public
    implies that the public is acting as an audience.
  • leekomuihas quoted10 years ago
    Fundamentally, social network sites are a category of community sites that
    have profiles, friends, and comments.
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