6. CMC and SNA
E-mail
IM Eckmann et al, 2004
Web
Listservs
Web
Blogs
Ali-Hasan & Adamic, 2007
7. Online Social Networks
Especially designed to empower the flow of resources
across people’s social networks.
Each user will have a different view of the system,
based on his own relationships.
8. Power Laws on
CMC + OSN
Subscribers x Blog / Bloglines Views x Photo / Flickr
Java et al., 2007 van Zwol, 2007
9. My questions
Are OSNs providing new means of communication?
What is new about it?
What does this allow people to do?
What is the value of OSNs for their users?