Virtual Social Networks: A New Dimension for Virtuality Research

Niki Panteli

Chapter 1 in Virtual Social Networks, 2009, pp 1-17 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Virtuality has been undergoing rapid and fundamental changes. As technology changes, so too have its applications and our uses of and experiences with them have changed as well. The emergence of new technologies such as Web 2.0 technologies offers individuals opportunities for new ways of interacting, playing, working, and learning, and companies new ways for promoting and advertising their products and services and interacting with their customers in general. The new possibilities are exciting, but there are uncertainties and anxieties too which affect individuals and organizations as well as societies in general. It is within this context, one of simultaneous excitement and anxiety, that we discuss virtual social networks in this edited collection.

Keywords: Virtual World; Social Networking Site; Online Social Network; Virtual Network; Virtual Community (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230250888_1

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