• DocumentCode
    1074142
  • Title

    Social Networking

  • Author

    Weaver, Alfred C. ; Morrison, Benjamin B.

  • Author_Institution
    Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville
  • Volume
    41
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    2008
  • Firstpage
    97
  • Lastpage
    100
  • Abstract
    In the context of today´s electronic media, social networking has come to mean individuals using the Internet and Web applications to communicate in previously impossible ways. This is largely the result of a culture-wide paradigm shift in the uses and possibilities of the Internet itself. The current Web is a much different entity than the Web of a decade ago. This new focus creates a riper breeding ground for social networking and collaboration. In an abstract sense, social networking is about everyone. The mass adoption of social-networking Websites points to an evolution in human social interaction.
  • Keywords
    Internet; Web sites; groupware; social sciences computing; Internet; Web applications; Web sites; electronic media; human social interaction; social networking; Collaboration; Context; Educational institutions; Explosions; Facebook; Humans; IP networks; Internet; Social network services; Web sites; Facebook; MySpace; Wikipedia; YouTube; how things work; social networking;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Computer
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9162
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MC.2008.61
  • Filename
    4454412