Summarizing Facebook Research
Posted 4/24/2006 01:59:00 PM |
In preparation for a conference, I've started going back over some of my recent research and opinion/theory pieces, particularly those about Facebook. I'll be appearing on a panel about social networking websites, and we'll be talking about Facebook, MySpace, Orkut and others.
Research:
- Student Life on The Facebook - Early results of a longitudinal quantitative study I ran on Facebook utilization by UNC's Freshmen class. To be expanded into a journal article, Summer 2006.
- Adopting the Facebook: A Comparative Analysis - Comparing Facebook adoption of the 2005 and 2006 freshman class.
- The Freshmen Facebook Zeitgeist - Earlier results of the same study, with some different aspects.
- You're Not my Friend - a new look at undergraduate Privacy on Facebook.
- Our Lives, Our Facebooks (pdf) - Presentation to the INSNA Social Networking Conference, Vancouver, 2006.
- An Evaluation of Identity-Sharing Behavior in Social Network Communities (pdf) - Results of a pilot study I ran to gauge social network community use on UNC-Chapel Hill's campus. Presented at the iDMA and IMS Code Conference, 2006.
- Political Orientation of the UNC Campus - My first Facebook research project.
- Google Tech Talk - Video capture of a talk on the Facebook I gave at Google, Mountain View, California.
- Public radio interview about Facebook research.
- Podcast and slides (pdf) of a talk I gave about the Facebook.
- Situational Relevance in Social Networking Websites - A piece I'm particularly proud of, which I think provides a roadmap for designers of social networking systems.
- Adopting Social-Technical Communication Behavior - Post covering how Facebook, and social networking websites, are integrating new models of communication behavior that will influence future technology.
- Leveraging the Future of Social Technology - A follow-on to the previous post, in a sense. Explores next-generation aspects of social networking.
- Transience in Social Networks, or How to Beat MySpace and Facebook - More theory for developers of social networking services, informed by my research.
- Facebook's Critical Success Factors - An exploration of why the Facebook captured its early market.
- Social Networks, Privacy, Security and the Media - Defining the challenges of privacy and security in social networking websites.
- When the Gates to the Walled Garden are Thrown Open - Early coverage of Facebook privacy issues. These issues are now well-documented.
- Our Private Lives, Protected by Terms of Use? - Extended coverage of Facebook privacy issues.
- How University Administrators Should Approach the Facebook: Ten Rules - The title explains it all.
- Common-Sense Facebook Advice for Students - Written for students, I hope to shed a little moderating light on the potential ramifications of having a Facebook profile.
- Faceted Search Interfaces - Exploring how people search for each other in social networking services.
- Service Providers Doing Campus IT Better than Campus IT - Students are choosing to use the Facebook to communicate, over campus-provided tools.
- Facebook's Value Proposition - Why it would make sense for certain companies to acquire the Facebook.
- Facebook Expands to Corporate Markets - Why it makes sense for Facebook to accept a corporate audience.
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At May 20, 2008 10:19 AM,
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I would like to point out that by updating corporations on the details of social networks you only give them ideas of how do exploit it. Soon Facebook will be all advertisments. This will not be because Facebook is going to sell to some conglomerate, but because who can resist pretty much free money?
