{"id":48,"date":"2012-10-01T12:56:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T19:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/samiraahhh\/?p=48"},"modified":"2012-10-01T12:56:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T19:56:56","slug":"why-youth-3-social-network-sites-the-role-of-the-networked-publics-in-teenage-social-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/samiraahhh\/2012\/10\/01\/why-youth-3-social-network-sites-the-role-of-the-networked-publics-in-teenage-social-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Youth <3 Social Network Sites: The Role of the Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

Danah Boyd is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communitation at NYU, a Visiting Researcher at Harvard \u00a0Law School, a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of New South Wales (danah.org<\/a>). On top of these many positions, Boyd also maintains a blog<\/a>. Her research centers around social media, and it’s implications on society. This reading,\u00a0Why Youth (Heart) Social Network Sites: The Role of the Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life, <\/em>deals specifically with social media and it’s affects on the middle and high school aged children.<\/p>\n

This article, which details Boyd’s research regarding social network sites, establishes a relationship between technology and the younger generation, and questions why and how social networking influences teenage social life. The study itself was conducted over a two year period and monitored teenagers on MySpace. It was determined that teenagers flock to MySpace for many reasons: to segregate themselves from adults (parents), to establish a sense of identity, and to become celebrity-like figures within their social groups.<\/p>\n

I would agree that the influence of technology is important to understand, but for me at least, this all seems almost common sense. This is where I find interest in this study — this is all common sense for me<\/em>, but maybe not the older generation. Many people who lived and participated during the MySpace days would probably read over this and thing and wonder why it’s such a big deal. Mundane tasks like making a profile and creating a “top 8” are blown into these great social acts. What we, the users, don’t realize is, stuff like this didn’t exist. We assume social media is just a regular part of life — not anything that merit’s academic research. But it does. Step back and look at it from a different perspective: to anyone outside of the internet generation, this is something honest-to-god bewildering.<\/em> We’ve become assimilated to the idea of social networking without realize that there was a world that existed without it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Danah Boyd is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communitation at NYU, a Visiting Researcher at Harvard \u00a0Law School, a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":319,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"qubely_global_settings":"","qubely_interactions":"","kk_blocks_editor_width":"","_kiokenblocks_attr":"","_kiokenblocks_dimensions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"gutentor_comment":1,"qubely_featured_image_url":null,"qubely_author":{"display_name":"samiraahhh","author_link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/samiraahhh\/author\/samiraahhh\/"},"qubely_comment":1,"qubely_category":"Uncategorized<\/a>","qubely_excerpt":"Danah Boyd is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research, a Research Assistant Professor in Media, Culture, and Communitation at NYU, a Visiting Researcher at Harvard \u00a0Law School, a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Center, and an Adjunct Associate Professor at the … Continue reading →","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/samiraahhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/samiraahhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/samiraahhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/samiraahhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/319"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/samiraahhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/samiraahhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/samiraahhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/50"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/samiraahhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/samiraahhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/samiraahhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}