Okay! So after looking at the first paragraph of my draft, I realized my topic was boring and nothing unique. In class we discussed introducing new questions about social networking and creating innovative topics. I continued to research the topic and found some interesting information on girls and social networking sites. Being a teenage girl myself, it was interesting to find out that we are supposedly the most common users of social networking sites such as facebook and myspace. My essay will delve deeper into this discussion to ask why we are the biggest users, and which features appeal more to girls than boys.
These are some of the website I have found in my research:
http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/198/report_display.asp
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/business/15drill.html?ex=1326517200&en=6badc3d6bd407b86&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
http://spotlight.macfound.org/main/entry/justine_cassell_online_disempowering_girls_users/
http://www.webpronews.com/insiderreports/2007/01/08/girls-dominate-the-social-networking-world
http://informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196801997&subSection=
My one question: if I use sites about the psychology of girls and boys to further discuss this topic and speak generally a bit about how girls are socially in comparison to boys, am I straying to far from the "social network" focus?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment