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Team LoL
Web Sites Reviewed
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
