Reading Four: Danah Boyd

Reading Four was “Social Network Sites as Networked Publics: Affordances, Dynamics, and Implications” by Danah Boyd. Danah writes a small .pdf paper talking about Social Media and its broad effects on its users. This paper mostly refers to the current Social Network of choice; Facebook. In this paper (linked below) Danah goes from explaining just what a current day Social Network looks like touching on Features and Profile pages and also Friends lists. This was the first time in the class I could relate to the presentations we had--had up to this date. Facebook and Social Media as a whole are something that 95% of today's population under 60 would have some experience with. Rebecca did a great job in getting us to understand that Social Media is the biggest creative technology project our generation will know. Facebook collects so much data on its users and in my opinion that is the biggest part of creative technology; the users. Danah talks about this in the paper saying:
"Knowing one’s audience matters when trying to determine what is socially Knowing one’s audience matters when trying to determine what is socially appropriate to say or what will be understood by those listening."

http://www.danah.org/papers/2010/SNSasNetworkedPublics.pdf