Title :
Social Networking
Author :
Weaver, Alfred C. ; Morrison, Benjamin B.
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville
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;