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My first personal interaction with social media was precisely in 2006, two years after what I could call the boom of Myspace. Compare to most of friends, it took me awhile before joining the circle because I didn’t think it was a useful tool for me until I took my first trip to France, where I started to miss my families and friends and I then create an account, just to communicate pricelessly with them. Back then, there were no prevalent features as video chat or voice and photos upload, as…

Digital Identity – What is it? In cyberspace, each thing that exist within it will be classed as an entity by most. These entities will be considered as everything that is within cyberspace. A digital Identity will give characteristics to said entities. The entities themselves will not be able to be identifiable without the help of a Digital Identity (Abelson, 1998). So, if we take the following data that is given to us, we will be able to know that a digital identity will refer to one person’s…

space, place and time. He first interprets the meaning of Cyberspace which is a space of online activities, and it’s different than the physical internet. He continues to give some prominent examples like online communities and social networking site Myspace to strengthen our understanding of the Cyberspace, and weaken the users’ fear of using the social network…

environments are too shaped by race and class, not just physical ones. Danah Boyd gives the example, “Teen Preference for Myspace or Facebook went beyond simple consumer choice; it reflected a reproduction of social categories that exist in schools throughout the United States. Because race, ethnicity, and socio-economic status shape social categories (Eckert, 1989), the choice between Myspace and Facebook became racialized. This got reinforced as teens chose to self-segregate across the two…

Digital and Social Media in Our Lives It is hard to imagine that only a decade ago, social and digital media was a little more than a growing trend. In 1995 less than 1 percent of the world’s population was connected to the internet (internetlivestats.com); today about 46 percent of the world’s population has internet connection (internetworldstats.org 1). In the United States, about 89 per cent of households are connected to the internet (interneworldstats.org 2). Also, both social and…

Literature Review Where did it all start The first appearance of a form of media in the United States was in 1690 when Richard Pierce printed the first newspaper in Boston. Then in 1920 the radio became another way for the media to communicate, followed by the television (David,2000). Media at this time was directed toward White two-parent middle-class homes. Shows mostly portrayed women as soft and gentle stay at home mothers and men as the breadwinners. The first black person did not appear…

someone online especially when you don’t know them. And also how what you say online can be seen by many people and could really hurt the person you targeted. This article is about a boy named Brandon Turley who was cyberbullied extremely bad on MySpace. He decided…

phones, computers, and other devices constantly. Merriam-Webster defines social networking as the creation and maintenance of personal and business relationships especially online. Some well-known examples of social networking are Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, LinkedIn, and Youtube. Modern society loves social networking, and uses it frequently. Since social networking has become such a phenomenon, it has altered our view specifically public persona, private persona, and ethics. Social…

In today’s world Friendship is start from Facebook, Myspace, snapchat, Instagram, WhatsApp etc which are common social networking sites for people to meet online and share their activities. Friendship is connection between two or more persons in which they have understanding, trust, feeling, expression etc. Friendship is also very important part in the life because without friend life is nothing, no fun, no connection. In friendship, two friends share their feeling, express their things with…

sociability-the ability to interact with other, or to socialize (Keenan & Shiri, 2009, 439). Social networking sites are websites that encourage social interaction through profile-based user accounts and mimic desktop applications, such as Facebook and Myspace and is comprised of types of…