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Team LoL

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Thesis Statement

Thesis

Primary

  • Research the trend of social networking and why people sacrifice their privacy in order to achieve social validation.

Secondary

  • Why do people go above and beyond what they would normally consider doing for views and money through youtube partnership?

Keywords

privacy, social networking, facebook, myspace, twitter, youtube, google, amazon, digg, blogs

Bibliography

Primary

Jones, Harvey, and Hiram Soltren, José "Facebook: Threats to Privacy"* [1]

  • How facebook effects privacy
  • Serious flaws in their systems
  • Statistical analysis of Facebook data from MIT, Harvard, NYU, and the University of Oklahom

Goettke, Richard, and Christiana, Joseph "Privacy and Online Social Networking Websites" > link

  • myspace and facebook online advertising
  • default privacy policies not doing enough for users
  • how much information a typical user of a social networking site makes widely available both knowingly and unknowingl

Bakari, Akil II "The Theory of Social Validation" link

  • Social Validation and what it means
  • User reviews on amazon.com and other web 2.0 websites
  • Does social validation solely reside on the internet or does it take place in real life as well.


Secondary

Burgess, Jean (2008) "All Your Chocolate Rain Are Belong to Us? Viral Video, YouTube and the Dynamics of Participatory Culture" link

  • Marketing potential of youtubes viral videos
  • Striving to create a viral video for money

Grant Crowell , "Can You Make Money From Posting Video of Other's Misfortune?" link

  • Dynamics of making money through youtube partnerships
  • Ethics of making money off of a video you have of someone else

Research Notes

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