- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Inventing the Internet: Scapegoat, Sin Eater, and Trickster
- 2 Next Generation Internet Users
- 3 The Relational Self-Portrait
- 4 The Politics of Children’s Internet Use
- 5 Gender and Race Online
- 6 Internet Geographies
- 7 China and the US in the New Internet World
- 8 Social Media and the News
- 9 The Impact of the Internet on Media Industries
- 10 Big Data
- 11 Transforming Government—by Default?
- 12 The Wisdom of Which Crowd? On the Pathology of a Digital Democracy Initiative for a Listening Government
- 13 Online Social Networks and Bottom-up Politics
- 14 Big Data and Collective Action
- 15 Empowering Citizens of the Internet Age
- 16 Scarcity of Attention for a Medium of Abundance
- 17 The Internet in the Law
- 18 The Digital Divide and Employment
- 19 A Critical Perspective on the Potential of the Internet at the Margins of the Global Economy
- 20 Next-Generation Content for Next-Generation Networks
- 21 Data Privacy in the Clouds
- 22 The Social Media Challenge to Internet Governance
- 23 Beyond the Internet and Web
- Index
The Relational Self-Portrait
The Relational Self-Portrait
Selfies Meet Social Networks
- Chapter:
- (p.53) 3 The Relational Self-Portrait
- Source:
- Society and the Internet
- Author(s):
Bernie Hogan
Barry Wellman
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
Social media have been changing patterns of Internet use. Time spent on social media has increased since 2005 in ways that have challenged other activities, such as search. Accordingly, social network sites (SNSs) have become a major focus for research, such as on how the Internet supports or undermines sociality and identity. Do SNSs act as a substitute for offline interaction? Can we trust those we meet online, and can we consider Facebook friends “real” friends? How do individuals manage their privacy, given the blurring of public and private boundaries on general SNSs? This chapter introduces new concepts and research that addresses these issues through creative approaches to quantitative, qualitative, and “trace” methods, showing how SNSs build on fundamental sociological principles. The success of SNSs is no accident but an illustration of how new technology can capture, mediate, and amplify basic patterns of human behavior.
Keywords: social networks, social media, friends, privacy, profiles, self-portrait
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- Title Pages
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- 1 Inventing the Internet: Scapegoat, Sin Eater, and Trickster
- 2 Next Generation Internet Users
- 3 The Relational Self-Portrait
- 4 The Politics of Children’s Internet Use
- 5 Gender and Race Online
- 6 Internet Geographies
- 7 China and the US in the New Internet World
- 8 Social Media and the News
- 9 The Impact of the Internet on Media Industries
- 10 Big Data
- 11 Transforming Government—by Default?
- 12 The Wisdom of Which Crowd? On the Pathology of a Digital Democracy Initiative for a Listening Government
- 13 Online Social Networks and Bottom-up Politics
- 14 Big Data and Collective Action
- 15 Empowering Citizens of the Internet Age
- 16 Scarcity of Attention for a Medium of Abundance
- 17 The Internet in the Law
- 18 The Digital Divide and Employment
- 19 A Critical Perspective on the Potential of the Internet at the Margins of the Global Economy
- 20 Next-Generation Content for Next-Generation Networks
- 21 Data Privacy in the Clouds
- 22 The Social Media Challenge to Internet Governance
- 23 Beyond the Internet and Web
- Index
