Social Networks

This stream focuses more directly on online social networks. It explores both specific social networking sites and services, as well as issues that reach across and between different networks.

Papers:

Short Life of a Social Network Sites

Why the number of people creating fake accounts and using second identity on Facebook are increasing

Social Networks and Advertising: The Benefits for Business

Social Networks- Changing the way we learn?

But My Post Was Private! Why We Can’t Assume Privacy on Social Network Sites

How many “friends” do you have?

Social networking towards better communication in the workplace

Socially Isolated in an Electronic Cottage

Social Networks and Instant Messaging are not Contributing to the Destruction of the English Language

How Social Networking sites are used by business

Exposing the inherent privacy design flaws in Facebook

Social Network sites have transformed the way we communicate and socialize in a positive way

Social networking sites have taken certain stances to support stalking

The Failings of Social Networking

Pointing the finger at Facebook and MySpace – are the platforms of these sites to blame?

Is Social Networking Addictive?

Revelation of Social Network and Privacy Implications

Social Networking websites are slowly turning into social marketing websites

The Popularity of Microblogging

The Rise and Rise of Social Networking, Could Facebook be making us Less Social?

Is it fact, fiction or fantasy? Check under the bonnet before risking a Wikipedia citation!

Teenage Cyber-Bullying and Facebook – Reducing the Risks

Social Networks: Growth, Isolation and Sucking the Time Away From Us

From #Slacktivism to #Activism: How Social Media Is Changing The Face Of Political Protest Around The World

Social networking and the Mobile Internet; picking the pockets of the poor

Libraries and the need to get onboard with Social Networking

Social Networks Are Effective Marketing Tools

Social networking has many benefits but it is also prone to abuses that make it look like a curse

Social Networking sites, like Facebook and MySpace, have been changing the way teenagers and young adults communicate to their real world communities, since they were created

Friends Are Foe: The Risks of Social Networking

Social Networking sites have transformed the political landscape

A Virtual Collision: When your private and professional worlds clash

A Social Society: The Positive Effects of Communicating through Social Networking Sites

Facebook is to socialising what masturbation is to sex

Facebook, blogs, and Twitter as a catalyst for the effective education needed by users on the dangers of consuming social media

Social networking sites are an effective medium for political campaigning and mobilisation

Facebook and the demise of individual privacy – a flawed assumption or serial disregard?

Commodifying Community: How contributing to Facebook is selling our soul and why we don’t care

The Danger Of Social Networking

Facebook: Taking the ’social’ out of networking

The Future Net-oree: The Scouting Convergence to Online Collaborations and Networks

Facebook’s aggregated news feed has changed the way people communicate

Location based social networks create greater social equity and stronger face to face relationships

Size is Important: Is there an optimal size for online communities?