Understanding social network sites
Lessons from MySpace
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12700562 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lewis Goodings (0009-0009-3439-4435, University of Roehampton, London, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 485-510 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-18 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Visual Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1470-3572 • E-ISSN: 1741-3214 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1470357212454098 |
| OpenAlex | W2318455486 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 38 |
MySpace.com is an online social network site (SNS) where users build a ‘profile page’ to communicate with millions of other users all over the globe. MySpace users customise their profile page with words, photographs, pictures, music, biographical information and other visual/textual icons. There are a number of unique practices that are inherent to these new online social spaces that extend from the need to maintain a personal profile. For example, many users will regularly update their profiles with new visual or textual information in order to encourage future communication (a practice that will be identified as ‘profile changing’). MySpace witnessed a high number of people joining the site in 2005 but more recently there has been similar movement away from the site and towards other online spaces. This article takes an historical look at the use of MySpace in order to explore some wider issues in online communication practices. Through an empirical analysis of 100 open-access MySpace profiles, the author examines the use of SNSs in relation to issues of self, community and wastefulness. This work also addresses the ongoing need to blur the boundaries of how we understand the relationship between human experience and technology, particularly in relation to visual/textual, online/offline, reality/representation and social/psychological
Business · Globe · Internet privacy · Online community · Order (exchange · Political science · Relation (database · Representation (politics · Social media · Social network (sociolinguistics · Sociology · World Wide Web · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · Impact of Technology on Adolescents · Psychology · Social Media and Politics
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Psychology without Foundations
A familiar face(book)
Revealing the ‘real’ me, searching for the ‘actual’ you
Information revelation and privacy in online social networks
Realities and relationships
Psychology and the Art of Living
Alone together
Doing Visual Ethnography
To catch a predator? The MySpace moral panic
Friends, Friendsters, and Top 8
The implication of visual research for discourse analysis
Visual repairables
Screens and the social landscape
The cyberself
Architecture of the personal interactive homepage
The ties that bind
For she who knows who she is
Social networking technology
Hyperbole over Cyberspace
Can You See the Real Me? Activation and Expression of the “True Self” on the Internet
Varieties of Positioning
Imagined communities
I tweet honestly, I tweet passionately
Social Network Sites
Positioning
Ethical Dilemmas in Research on Internet Communities
The Routledge Handbook of Multimodal Analysis
Situated Learning
| Citations per year | 0.25 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2017 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |