http://www.christydena.com/2007/08/history-of-social-network-sites/ Fri, 20 Jan 2012 22:19:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.christydena.com/2007/08/history-of-social-network-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-478 Cross-Media + Transmedia Entertainment » Blog Archive » Trebor Scholz's History of the Social Web Tue, 09 Oct 2007 06:11:01 +0000 http://www.cross-mediaentertainment.com/index.php/2007/08/17/history-of-social-network-sites/#comment-478 [...] After my post about Danah Boyd’s exploration of the history of social network sites, Trebor Scholz has developed his own. It is pretty comprehensive: This is a cross-cultural, critical history of social life on the Internet. It captures technical, cultural, and political events that influenced the evolution of computer-assisted person-to-person communication via the net. Acknowledging the role of grassroots movements, this history does not solely focus on mainstream culture with all its mergers, acquisitions, sales and markets, and the (mostly male) geeks, engineers, scientists, and garage entrepreneurs who implemented their dreams in hardware and software. It does trace the changing nature of labor and typologies of those who create value online as much as it searches for changing approaches toward control, privacy, and intellectual property. This history shows strategies for direct social change based on the technologies and practices, which already exist. [...] [...] After my post about Danah Boyd’s exploration of the history of social network sites, Trebor Scholz has developed his own. It is pretty comprehensive: This is a cross-cultural, critical history of social life on the Internet. It captures technical, cultural, and political events that influenced the evolution of computer-assisted person-to-person communication via the net. Acknowledging the role of grassroots movements, this history does not solely focus on mainstream culture with all its mergers, acquisitions, sales and markets, and the (mostly male) geeks, engineers, scientists, and garage entrepreneurs who implemented their dreams in hardware and software. It does trace the changing nature of labor and typologies of those who create value online as much as it searches for changing approaches toward control, privacy, and intellectual property. This history shows strategies for direct social change based on the technologies and practices, which already exist. [...]

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