Privacy, Social Network Sites, and Social Relations

2014 ◽  
pp. 83-103
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Network Sites

Finding the meaning of emo in youths' online social networking: A qualitative study of contemporary Italian emo

First Monday ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesca Romana Seganti ◽  
David Smahel
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Qualitative Methodology ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Online Social Networking

This paper analyses how young Italians aged 16 to 19 who identify themselves with emo subculture use social network sites (SNSs) in constructing their identity and social relations. Based on a qualitative methodology, the findings supported our hypothesis that SNS are tools to socialise rather than isolate. Emo emerges as a powerful identity mark, which through dissemination in new media provides the foundation for a new sense of subcultural belonging.

Public intimacy in social media: The mass audience as a third party

2021 ◽  
pp. 016344372199108
Author(s):  
Danny Kaplan
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Social Network ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Third Party ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Triadic Interactions ◽  
Mass Audience ◽  
Phatic Communication ◽  
Interpersonal Ties

This study presents a novel analysis of social network sites as a staged performance of interpersonal ties in front of a third party, here defined as public intimacy. This concept moves away from the current focus on the presentation of self in social media to the performance of relationships. Users of social media are compared to an interactive audience in a round theater. As inner circle network members display their exclusive ties in front of ther users they may also tease them into joining the conversation. Building on studies of Simmelian ties, interactive exchange, and phatic communication the study presents six characteristics of public intimacy along with brief examples drawn from users’ experiences on Facebook and Twitter. It is concluded that by mediating the shift from dyad to triad and from triad to mass community social media do not necessarily entail a reduction in intimacy but rather a concretization of social relations. The recursive relationship between interpersonal ties and mass solidarity is sustained and reaffirmed thanks to triadic interactions of public intimacy.

scholarly journals Sociale netværkssider og digital ungdomskultur: Når unge praktiserer venskab på nettet [Social Network Sites and Digital Youth Culture: When young people practice friendship online]

2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (47) ◽  
pp. 20 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malene Charlotte Larsen
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
New Media ◽  
Social Networking ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Ethnographic Studies ◽  
Long Time

During the past few years, hundreds of thousands of Danes have created personal profiles on websites such as Arto, Facebook and MySpace. With the emergence and popularisation of these sites, we have witnessed a new media concept: social network(ing) sites. As is often the case with new media, teenagers have been the first to take social network sites to heart. In this paper I discuss the concept of online social networking and describe how social network sites are used as part of everyday teenage life to maintain social relations. I do this, firstly, by presenting a number of concepts that I consider to be important in relation to young people's use of social network sites. Secondly, I highlight some results from my own research on 12-18-year-old children and adolescents’ use of various social network sites, including Arto.com, which has been Danish teenagers’ preferred venue on the Internet for a relatively long time. Using empirical examples, I analyse and discuss how social network sites are an integral part of the young users' friendships and social lives. The article is based on four years of ethnographic studies.

scholarly journals Privacy, Social Network Sites, and Social Relations

2010 ◽  
Vol 28 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 74-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Houghton ◽  
Adam N. Joinson
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Social Network Sites

scholarly journals Digitale forbindelser og nye fornemmelser. Et etnografisk studie af Facebook

2010 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-26
Author(s):  
Nina Charlotte Schiøtz ◽  
Sophie Bo Schmidt
Keyword(s):  
Social Network ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Network Theory ◽  
Social Ties ◽  
Social Network Sites ◽  
Actor Network Theory ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
The Social ◽  
Society Today

Artiklen bygger på en undersøgelse af den sociale netværkstjeneste Facebook, som vi foretog i efteråret 2008 i forbindelse med specialeskrivning på Sociologisk Institut, KU. I nærværende artikel argumenterer vi først og fremmest for, at Aktør-Netværk-Teorien kan være et givtigt sted at starte, når vi skal forstå menneskets samspil med digitale teknologier, og vi vil fremlægge de metodiske udfordringer og muligheder, som et felt som Facebook byder på. Dernæst vil vi give en karakteristik af de nye tekno-sociale praksisser, som vi ser opstå med unges hverdagsbrug af Facebook og vise, hvordan disse praksisser betyder, at mennesker i stigende grad knyttes sammen via fornemmelsen for hinanden. Søgeord: Sociale netværkstjenester, ANT, sociologi, Facebook, digital etnografi. ENGELSK ABSTRACT: Nina Charlotte Schiøtz and Sophie Bo Schmidt: Digital Connections and New Awareness: An Ethnograhpic Study of Facebook This article explores the characteristics of the new kinds of social ties between people that are emerging with the use of Social Network Sites. The article builds on the results of an ethnographic study of young Danish Facebook users in late 2008. First we argue that Actor Network Theory is a useful strand of theory for studying technological phenomena. Then we describe two general techno-social practices that emerge from users’ engagement with Facebook. Finally, we argue that the substance of the social relations that emerges with the use of Social Network Sites is relations of awareness. This form of connectedness does not replace traditional social relations, but is rather a new dimension in the way people relate and make ties in society today. Key words: Social Network Sites, SNS, Facebook, ANT, sociology, digital ethnography.

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