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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"myspace"”.
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Myspace Or Ourspace: A Media System Dependency View Of Myspace
MySpace is a type of "social networking" website where people meet, socialize, and create friendships. The way MySpace members, particularly younger individuals, interact online underscores the changing nature of mass media. Media system dependency states that individuals become reliant on media in …
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Comunicação na Internet : a rede social Myspace : um estudo de caso
… interacção da autora com outros utilizadores do MySpace em geral e com os “amigos virtuais” em particular. Neste sentido são observadas as actividades realizadas pelos mesmos e as consequências das acções efectuadas pela própria autora do projecto. Foi através da página da pesquisadora e da sua …
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The effects of the friend networking site MySpace on adolescents' global self esteem
… effects of the popular friend-networking site, MySpace on young adolescents' global self-esteem. The hypothesis of the present study states that adolescents who spend more time on the friend-networking site, MySpace, will experience lower overall self-esteem than their peers who spend either …
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A study of Myspace and Facebook from the perspectives of uses and gratification and impression management
<p>This thesis explored MySpace and Facebook, two popular social networking sites (SNS), from the perspectives of the uses and gratification model and impression management theory. As a qualitative exploratory study, this thesis had three objectives. First, it investigated why young people use SNS. …
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WEB 2.0: THE INDUSTRY OF PARTICIPATION: An Actor-Network Theory Account of Myspace in the Case of Underground Music
… in my study of the Social Networking Site Myspace and some of its underground music-related users whether and how the alleged processes of democratization, user empowerment and active participation can be retrieved. I carried out my study with the methodology of cyberethnography, and, more …
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Why is MySpace the place for friends? : An ethnographic study on the effects of social-networking site use on socialization
… ' use of the popular social-networking site, MySpace. It also examined how MySpace influences online and offline relationships as well as impacts individuals' self concept. The research method included an initial unobtrusive observation of 50 random MySpace pages, participant-observation of …
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Self-Injury Knowledge and Peer Perceptions among Members of Internet Self-Injury Groups
Members of 26 MySpace social groups for self-injury (SI) provided data for this study investigating knowledge of SI, friends’ perceptions of SI, and the impact of online activity on SI. This study proposes that people who have belonged to these online SI groups for longer periods have higher levels …
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The Effect of Social Networking on Grief
… memoriam</em> profile webpages on Facebook and MySpace. The deceased were between the ages of six months and 32 years. Results indicate that society is using social media as a form of support and comfort in times of loss.</p>
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Advertising on Social Networking Websites
The rise of social networking websites such as MySpace and Facebook over the past decade has been nothing short of phenomenal. Once regarded as nothing more than a passing "fad", these websites have grown to astronomical proportions; each website currently boasts 60+ million unique visitors each …
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Organizational Use of Social Networking in Employment Actions
… social media websites (e.g., Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn) in various employment practices (e.g., selection, promotion, employee monitoring, layoffs). Court cases were identified using various online databases in an attempt to create an exhaustive list of cases to be used to better …
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An Examination of Changing Perceptions of Singlehood.
… and internet-based social networking (MySpace, Facebook, etc.) of never-married women.</p>
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An investigation of semantic patterns in passwords
… LinkedIn leak and 32% more passwords from the MySpace leak. Furthermore, we explore the implications of using date patterns in guessing attacks and investigate the lexical differences between standard English and the language used in passwords.
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Multi agent system for web database processing, on data extraction from online social networks.
… pro- le's attributes and list of friends from Myspace, the top OSN at that time, by parsing the Myspace pro les and extracting the relevant tokens from the parsed HTML source les. A Breadth First Search (BFS) algorithm was used to travel across the generated OSN friendship graph in order to …
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The Influence of Technology on Adolescent Development: An Eco-Cultural Analysis of Cybersocial Activity
… network sites; the most popular network site, MySpace, has grown exponentially since its creation in 2003. Adolescents are the primary users of such sites and many of them maintain blogs, or online chronicles that are available for public viewing and comment, along with their profile pages and …
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New potentials for "independent" music : social networks, old and new, and the ongoing struggles to reshape the music industry
… Rough Trade record label (1978 - 1991) and MySpace (2003 - present). Numerous examples of artists and their practices are drawn upon to illustrate how discursive meanings of independence are negotiated within each network. Investigated are potentials for realizing not only autonomy from the …
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The effects of social media sites on self-esteem
… social networking sites, such as Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter, have become increasingly popular and almost an integral part of everyday life, especially for college students. Approximately ninety percent of college students have a Facebook account, and it is estimated that the average …
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The perceived trustworthiness of electronic word of mouth (eWOM) on attitude towards dietary supplements, purchase intention and behaviour for dietary supplements amongst female adolescents in Saudi Arabia
Social networking sites (SNS) such as MySpace, Twitter and Facebook provide effective communication platforms that influence the purchase behaviour of brands for many age groups particularly adolescents. These platforms offer boards of online engagement by user-generated content to share, like and …
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A uses and gratifications perspective of Chinese college students' motivations in using renren (Chinese social networking site)
… area to explore. The success of Facebook and MySpace in the U.S. has attracted a considerate number of communication scholars to examine this phenomenon from different perspectives.</p> <p>As the most cutting-edge tool to investigate a newly-grown medium, uses and gratifications perspective …
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Sixth-, Seventh-, and Eighth-Grade Students' Experiences with the Internet and Their Internet Safety Knowledge.
… students included emailing, social networking (MySpace), instant messaging, publishing and sharing information about their favorite sports and activities, and using secret codes while messaging with friends. The results of this study indicated significant relationships between the household …
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