Feedback Requested: Writing-in-progress About the History of Social Networks & SPECIAL Section on Blogging

Feedback Requested: Excerpt of a work-in-progress introduction to the JCMC Special Issue on Social Network Sites
Danah Boyd and Nicole Ellison, authors of this draft, are soliciting your feedback and comments.

The Journal of Computer Mediated Communication can be found here. JCMC is a peer-reviewed publication.

Selected Articles in the Most Recent Issue of JCMC (July 2007):

+ The Benefits of Facebook “Friends:” Social Capital and College Students’ Use of Online Social Networks

+ A Case of Mistaken Identity? News Accounts of Hacker, Consumer, and Organizational Responsibility for Compromised Digital Records

+ Online vs. Face-to-Face Deliberation: Effects on Civic Engagement

+ SPECIAL Section on Blogging
++ Blogging Practices: An Analytical Framework
Jan Schmidt
++ Anonymity and Self-Disclosure on Weblogs
Hua Qian and Craig R. Scott
++ Psychological and Social Influences on Blog Writing: An Online Survey of Blog Authors in Japan
Asako Miura and Kiyomi Yamashita
++ Gender Differences in British Blogging
Sarah Pedersen and Caroline Macafee