English 130 on Internet Issues

A ton of Boyd's different articles on social media.

interesting slides about "friends" online and offline

this article explains how certain companies follow terrorist online and provide us with terrorist movement and related issues quicker then any other source.

Good for papers that include both the social media and music.

"No less than a decade ago, the majority of mainstream music was funneled through a handful of media conglomerates. But now more individuals are listening to more music from a greater variety of sources than at any time in history." Greg Kot

Top Three Reasons We Join social Networking Sites

This study used an experiment embedded within a Web-based survey to examine the influence of contextual (i.e., face-to-face vs. online chat room discussion) and social-psychological factors on individuals' willingness to express opinions. In this experiment, respondents were asked whether they would be willing to express an opinion if they were placed in a face-to-face discussion group in one condition and in an online chat room discussion group in the other condition.

Psychological research on Twitter reveals who tweets, how much, what they talk about and why. There are now 190 million Twitter users around the world producing 65 million tweets each day. 19% of US internet users now say they use Twitter or a similar service to share updates about themselves-double the figure from the previous year (Pew, 2009).

There are those who spend — literally — a few hours a day on Twitter. Jagadeesh Krishnamurthy wanted to know why.

Mental Health, Personality, and Parental Rearing Styles of Adolescents with Internet Addiction Disorder.

This site has a lot of facts about social media along with how social media relates to identity.

This is a discussion blog concerning online identity.

Online Gaming Addiction: The Role of Sensation Seeking, Self-Control, Neuroticism, Aggression, State Anxiety, and Trait Anxiety.

This explains the turning point for social media.

So what does this have to do with the psychology of cyberspace? There are two basic ways the internet tends to create division in one's life and identity. First, people tend to separate their online lives from their offline lives. You may have online companions, groups, and activities that are quite distinct from those you have in the face-to-face world.

A paper on on-line and off-line identity

Users often wish to participate in online groups anonymously, but misbehaving users may abuse this anonymity to spam or disrupt the group. We present the first general messaging protocol that offers provable anonymity with accountability for moderate-size groups, and efficiently handles unbalanced loads where few members have much data to transmit in a given round.

In a sweeping victory for free speech rights in cyberspace, the Supreme Court struck down the Communications Decency Act in Reno v. ACLU in June 1997. The Court granted the highest level of First Amendment protection to the Internet, and cyber-activists are still dancing in the streets.

Around the world, information technology increasingly pervades weapons systems, defense infrastructures, and national economies. As a result, cyberspace has become a new international battlefield for terrorist.

This article talks about how we express out identity through social media.