Terminology confusion on Social Networks
It often appears in some posts or messages on the net claiming about how we are assuming the wrong use of some terminology with much tolerance while scientist and academics have difficulty to spread out and convince to the public that the fair use of terminology is essential to build knowledge.
Social networks are now very attractive and everyone of us is realizing how many of our friends are subscribed to a “social network” in the Internet, while very few of them know exactly what it all is about social networks. It seems logical to differentiate between social networks, as a discipline that is used to study the relations in our society and “social networking platforms” or “social networking media” which are instruments to support social relations between people.
I plan to study the social network inside one of these platforms, but this does not mean that I will study the platform itself, but the relations and communication among the members of the platform, that can be seen as a coherent group, even as an organization, as it is in my case.
To help people to understand what SOCIAL NETWORK SITES are I strongly recommend to read the following post: http://jcmc.indiana.edu/vol13/issue1/boyd.ellison.html
November 5th, 2008 at 3:44 am
Interesting subject.