This article considers young people’s identities and privacy on social network sites through reflection on the analogy of the teenage bedroom as a means to understand such spaces. The notion therein of intimate personal space may jar with the scope and complexity of social media and, particularly, with recent emphasis on the challenges to privacy posed by such environments. I suggest, however, ...

This research adopts a brand relationship perspective to investigate how users of a social network site (e.g., Facebook and Twitter) perceive the quality of their relationship with those sites and their intention to continue to use them, as well as the intention to continue using the hosted brands that they “follow” through the social network site. In addition, the role of matching a user’s per...

Recently, a new form of social network site focusing on researchers has emerged and attracted worldwide users. In addition to basic functionalities of SNSs, social research network sites (SRNS) combine multiple research-specific tools, such as knowledge management tools, citation management, and paper recommendation engines, supporting researchers to collaboratively structure, coordinate and co...

Through social network sites (SNS) are between the most popular sites in the Web, there is not a formal study on their functional features. This paper introduces a comprehensive list of them. Then, it shows how these features are supported by top 16 social network platforms. Results show some universal features, such as comments support, public sharing of contents, system notifications and prof...

The Online Social Networking phenomenon is growing rapidly all around the world. As a consequence, in recent years, several studies have been devoted to the analysis of Social Network Sites (SNSs). A specific issue that has been addressed is the identification of leaders based on well-known algorithms such as PageRank [1], [2], [3]. In this talk we give a new method to identify leaders on an SN...

A relevant feature of Social Network Sites is their ability to propagate units of information and create large distributed conversations. This phenomenon is particularly relevant because of the speed of information propagation, which is known to be much faster than within traditional media, and because of the very large amount of people that can potentially be exposed to information items. Whil...

Introduction Online social networks, also known as Social Network Sites (SNS) are web-based services allowing users to communicate with each other whether for personal or professional usage. Boyd and Ellison have defined SNS in their paper as “Web Based Services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system (2) to articulate a list of other user...