» MySpace to offer spyware for parents | The Social Web | ZDNet.com. Following continuing pressure from politicians (and parts of the media), MySpace is planning to offer parents the chance to download software which will monitor aspects of their children's activities on the social networking site. The Wall Street Journal reports: Parents who install the monitoring software on their home computers would be able to find out what name, age and location their children are using to represent themselves on MySpace. The software doesn't enable parents to read their child's e-mail or see the child's profile page and children would be alerted that their information was being shared.
The program would continue to send updates about changes in the child's name, age and location, even when the child logs on from other computers. From a business point of view, the move appears to be a highly risky one. So why is News Corp (owners of MySpace) going down this road? The MySpace Gap - September 15, 2006 - Library Journal. MySpace may face legislative crackdown | CNET News.com. Quot;How MySpace Works" The idea isn't new: "Social networking" has been around forever. It's the simple act of expanding the number of people you know by meeting your friends' friends, their friends' friends and their friends' friends' friends.
And MySpace isn't the first (or the last) Web site to take the concept online. So why does MySpace have more than twice the traffic of Google within four years of its 2003 launch? Fifty-four million people have profiles on MySpace as of February 2006, and 180,000 more register to use the site every day. By all accounts, it's a phenomenon. On MySpace, your social network starts growing from day one without much effort on your part. You join MySpace and create a profile.You invite your friends to join MySpace and search MySpace for your friends who are already members. From what the author can tell, there's no way to actually view your Extended Network in any collective way. There's a lot more to MySpace than networking, but that's the core concept. Discussion: MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act. Citation: boyd, danah and Henry Jenkins. 2006. "MySpace and Deleting Online Predators Act (DOPA). " MIT Tech Talk.
May 26. The following interview with Henry Jenkins (co-director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT) and danah boyd (PhD student at the School of Information, University of California-Berkeley) was conducted via email by Sarah Wright of the MIT News Office. Click here for a printable, PDF version of the following text. Q: What is MySpace? Danah: MySpace and Facebook are social network sites where individuals create profiles and link to others (“friends”) within the system. These sites also provide numerous communication tools. MySpace has over 78 million registered accounts while Facebook has approximately 8 million. Q: What is the controversy over MySpace? Henry: More broadly, there are concerns about what aspects of their lives teens reveal through their online profiles.
By industry / Media & internet - MySpace acts to calm teen safety fears (-) MySpace.com, the fast-growing community website hugely popular with American teens, has removed 200,000 “objectionable” profiles from its site as it steps up efforts to calm fears about the safety of the network for young users. The site, which allows users to create their own profiles with details of their interests that can be viewed and linked to by other MySpace.com “friends”, was acquired by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp last year and its phenomenal growth has placed it at the centre of the media company’s internet strategy. Ross Levinsohn, head of News Corp’s internet division, said some of the material taken down contained “hate speech”. Some of it, he said, was “too risqué”. “It’s a problem that’s endemic to the internet – not just MySpace,” Mr Levinsohn said.
“The site, in the last two months, I think has become safer.” With 66m users, and 250,000 new users signing up every day, MySpace has become one of the top internet destinations. Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2014. Internet News Article | Reuters.co.uk (-) Infomancy » MySpace - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (-) I had been meaning to write a nice post praising Kevin Poulsen for a wonderful article on Wired News about MySpace, and today’s trip through my blog list shows me I cannot put it off any longer. Let me start with just a couple of statements: 1) MySpace is a tool – it is not good, bad or ugly, it just is. 2) Communication tools don’t assult children – sadly children have probably been at risk from predators since before someone thought to make some scratches on a rock to leave a message 3) The future is coming – I’m sorry, time seems to be stuck in play and I can’t find batteries powerful enough for the remote control big enough to pause the future for us to catch our breaths for a second.
We just have to carry on as best we can… So this is where the person asks if you want the good news or the bad news, right? Well, I am starting with the bad news and working my way up to the good, but if you prefer things the other way around, the fast forward button does work here =) Stephen's Lighthouse: Is MySpace Scary....? (-) News: MySpace can be unfamiliar ground to busy parents, and not everything is as it seems on the site. So Wired News addresses some of the most pressing questions parents might have if they explore their teenager's relationship with MySpace. This FAQ relies heavily on an interview with UC Berkeley researcher Danah Boyd, who studied teens' ways during a two-year ethnographic study of the MySpace phenomenon.
Boyd speaks on her findings in a recent lecture. Can I search MySpace to see if my kid is on it? MySpace profiles are searchable, and with little detective work you can probably find your offspring if they are participating. But should you? UC Berkeley researcher Danah Boyd says it's a bad idea. I did it anyway. No. What if she's linking to adult men? Boyd says kids collect online friends like baseball cards, and the reason for a link isn't always obvious: "They connect to their teachers, their older cousins, people who they think are cool. " How should I talk to them about MySpace? News: Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace. "Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace" danah boyd American Association for the Advancement of Science February 19, 2006 Citation: boyd, danah. 2006. "Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace.
" American Association for the Advancement of Science, St. Louis, MO. February 19. [This is a rough, unedited crib of the actual talk.] Much appreciation to the Macarthur Foundation for funding this research and to the rest of the Digital Youth team for guidance and insight. If you have feedback about this talk/essay (especially if you think i'm wrong), write me: zephoria@zephoria.org This crib has been translated to French thanks to Laurence Allard. NOTE: This talk morphed into a proper peer-reviewed academic article published in the MacArthur Series on Digital Learning by MIT Press: "Why Youth Heart Social Netowrk Sites: The Role of Networked Publics in Teenage Social Life.
" Introduction: I have been following MySpace since its launch in 2003.