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	<description>Department of Internet Studies, Curtin University of Technology</description>
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		<title>SNSs’ impact upon traditional ways of communication and culture</title>
		<link>http://networkconference.netstudies.org/2010/05/snss%e2%80%99-impact-upon-traditional-ways-of-communication-and-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 08:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ran. A</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ 
Introduction
In China twenty years ago, it would be big news to hear of a household with a telephone. And just ten years ago, it was almost unheard of to have one of those new fashioned computing devices called a personal computer. Computers were devices normally associated with people with high qualifications working in specialized [...]]]></description>
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		<title>social networks</title>
		<link>http://networkconference.netstudies.org/2010/05/social-networks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 04:47:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kittydeng</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Networks]]></category>
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In the recent two decades, the Internet has become more and more important in people’s lives, not only on working side, but also in people’ daily lives. And with the development of the Internet, from 1.0 to web 2.0 , people’s lives and the ways of communication are changed. This paper is going to analysis [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>10</slash:comments>
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		<title>Are virtual communities a good thing socially?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 09:14:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>matthewh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Identity in Communities and Networks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This paper looks at the idea of and some instances of virtual communities and focuses on the issue of whether they help or inhibit social interactions for the majority of people who use them. I am not looking at whether internet use in general is good or bad but I am focusing on the people [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>IDENTITY DECEPTION IN VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES AND NETWORKS AND ITS RÉQUISITOIRES</title>
		<link>http://networkconference.netstudies.org/2010/05/identity-deception-in-virtual-communities-and-networks-and-its-requisitoires/</link>
		<comments>http://networkconference.netstudies.org/2010/05/identity-deception-in-virtual-communities-and-networks-and-its-requisitoires/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 14:25:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>14379286</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[IDENTITY DECEPTION IN VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES AND NETWORKS AND ITS RÉQUISITOIRES
It is indeed important to note that identity plays a fundamental role in virtual communities, in communication which is the elementary activity, knowing the identity of those with whom you communicate with is pivotal for understanding and evaluating and interaction. This paper will explore the role [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The addictive nature of social networking sites has facilitated the downward spiral of communication skills.</title>
		<link>http://networkconference.netstudies.org/2010/05/the-addictive-nature-of-social-networking-sites-has-facilitated-the-downward-spiral-of-communication-skills/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2010 05:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>reneeh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Networks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Social Networking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social networking sites]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The addictive nature of social networking sites has facilitated the downward spiral of communication skills.
 
When a new communication medium is introduced, individuals are quite taken by its uniqueness or novelty. A definition of communication by Lierouw (as cited in Israelsen)  is the “process of sharing ideas, information, and messages with other in a particular time [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Short Life of a Social Network Sites</title>
		<link>http://networkconference.netstudies.org/2010/05/short-life-of-a-social-network-sites-2/</link>
		<comments>http://networkconference.netstudies.org/2010/05/short-life-of-a-social-network-sites-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 May 2010 10:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Radek_Valenta</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Networks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social networks. It is amazing how quickly these websites grow and gain popularity in our society and how quickly that situation can change. Take Twitter for example. Just a few years ago, when you said the word ‘Twitter’ to your friends, they probably responded with words like ‘What is Twitter?’ but these days it’s the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>39</slash:comments>
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		<title>Why the number of people creating fake accounts and using second identity on Facebook are increasing.</title>
		<link>http://networkconference.netstudies.org/2010/05/why-the-number-of-people-creating-fake-accounts-and-using-second-identity-on-facebook-are-increasing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 May 2010 12:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>norajong</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Identity in Communities and Networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Networks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Social networking communities have become more popular since the introduction of Web 2.0. A major research study on the use of digital technologies by adults from 16 industrialised nations suggests that on average they spend a third of their leisure time online, belong to two social networking sites and have regular contact with people who [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>69</slash:comments>
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		<title>Social Networks and Advertising: The Benefits for Business</title>
		<link>http://networkconference.netstudies.org/2010/05/social-networks-and-advertising-the-benefits-for-business-2/</link>
		<comments>http://networkconference.netstudies.org/2010/05/social-networks-and-advertising-the-benefits-for-business-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 06:34:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JeremyN</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advertising]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Jeremy Neyman
Users of the internet are currently spending more than 17% of their internet time on social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Twitter. This represents a three-fold increase from August 2008 to August 2009 (Nielsen, 2009).
In Australia alone there are currently 9 million Australians communicating through social media channels. It is reported that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>Social Networks- Changing the way we learn?</title>
		<link>http://networkconference.netstudies.org/2010/05/social-networks-changing-the-way-we-learn/</link>
		<comments>http://networkconference.netstudies.org/2010/05/social-networks-changing-the-way-we-learn/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 01:01:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>SaRawr2291</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Social Networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[learning]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Social Networks- Changing the way we learn?
By Sarah King
The advancement of technology in the past decade has seen changes to the way we live our lives. The internet has diminished the problem of isolation with the help of social networking. Social networking has allowed people to meet new people in other countries, companies to share [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>29</slash:comments>
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		<title>&#8220;Web 2.0, why are you so controversial? And do you have something to do with Virtual Communities?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://networkconference.netstudies.org/2010/04/2-0-controversy/</link>
		<comments>http://networkconference.netstudies.org/2010/04/2-0-controversy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 08:20:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jo Morange</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communities and Web 2.0]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[debate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Online Communities]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social networks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web 2.0, why are you so controversial? And do you have something to do with Virtual Communities?
By Joel Morange
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« Web 2.0 is a piece of jargon » said Tim Berners-Lee (2006), inventor of the World Wide Web.
Whilst some argue that Web 2.0 is just a marketing term misused by numerous companies to appear more technologically advanced, professional [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>34</slash:comments>
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