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* Boyd, Danah (2007). [http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2007/?page_id=28 Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?], ''The Knowledge Tree'', 2007. | * Boyd, Danah (2007). [http://kt.flexiblelearning.net.au/tkt2007/?page_id=28 Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?], ''The Knowledge Tree'', 2007. | ||
* Churchill, E.F.; Halverson, C.A. (2005) Guest Editors' Introduction: Social Networks and Social Networking, ''IEEEExplore'',9 (5). 14- 19 | |||
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** See the full special edition of http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=32341&isYear=2005 | |||
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Revision as of 10:41, 5 June 2008
Definition
Social networking is the practice of expanding the number of one's business and/or social contacts by making connections through individuals. (Whatis.com)
In educational technology, social networking refers to the professional or education/pedagogical use of social networking software.
One may distinguish two basic genres
- Social linking platforms that mostly just promote links between entries describing persons (profiles). A well known platform for professionals is LinkedIn.
- Social network sites: Platforms that let people create media-rich webpages and manage "friends" on the same platform and that can have various access to contents. The best known example is probably Facebook and pioneers were Frienster and MySpace. A variant of these are platforms to create networks, e.g Ning.
Social network sites
According to Danah Boyd, social network sites can be defined through three features: profiles, friends and comments.
Standards
- FOAF, a RDF standard for linking people (for which various applications exist)
- API standards to script platforms like Facebook and Ning (more details needed plus links to other web 2.0 standards)
Examples of social networking platforms
Examples of linking platforms
- frienster,
- Tribe
- LinkedIn, a friend-of-friend professional network.
- Orkut
- StudiVz - (StudiVZ Wikipedia) Social Networking platform for students.
Example of platforms to promote exchange
- Ning social network platform. "Create Your Own Social Network for Anything". This is quite interesting, also more interested in web 2.0 standardization efforts than Facebook
- Think.com
- Facebook (not just homepages for the idle, it does have some interesting features and networks, including an API)
- youfig
Links
References
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- Boyd, Danah (2007). Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?, The Knowledge Tree, 2007.
- Churchill, E.F.; Halverson, C.A. (2005) Guest Editors' Introduction: Social Networks and Social Networking, IEEEExplore,9 (5). 14- 19
DOI 10.1109/MIC.2005.103.
- See the full special edition of http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.jsp?isnumber=32341&isYear=2005