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  • About
  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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Social network sites : a constructionist approach to self, identity and community in MySpace

Goodings, Lewis January 2010 (has links)
MySpace is a social network site (SNS) that forms an essential part of modern online communication. The creation of a personal profile in MySpace allows a user to connect with a global network of friends and communicate in a number of different ways. This thesis sets out to explore the experience of MySpace in terms of the self, identity and community. MySpace will be studied from a constructionist form of social psychology that benefits from new dialects of movement, performance and process. MySpace is conceptualised as a mediated community where users shape and are shaped by their experience of using the site. This study uses empirical data taken from the natural use of MySpace. A total of 100 open-access profiles are explored for the myriad ways that users constitute the self and identity in MySpace. The analysis identifies a number of functions of mediating the self including: the brand me, the hoped-for self and the self in potential. The brand me describes the reflective ability to realise other normative capacities through the practice of blogging in MySpace. This focuses on the ability to create new forms of subjectivity in MySpace interactions. In a similar vein, the hoped-for self explains the modification of the self through the act of profile changing and focuses on the actual, everyday practices of the self. Each of these analytic themes demonstrates the importance of the relational connections in MySpace. Finally, the self is defined as in potential as the analysis demonstrates an ongoing need for a narrative construction to the profile that is performed in both the visual and the textual aspects of the page.
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Médiations documentaires et médiations identitaires dans une communauté de savoir en ligne : le cas de la blogosphère infodoc / Documentary and identity mediations in a community of knowledge online : the case of infodoc blogosphere

Stassin, Bérengère 16 November 2015 (has links)
Cette recherche doctorale s’inscrit dans la problématique des nouvelles formes de médiation de l’information et des savoirs engendrées par les technologies du Web 2.0. Elle porte sur le terrain des blogs et vise à analyser leur rôle dans l’émergence de réseaux informationnels dans le domaine de l’information-documentation (info-doc). Plus particulièrement, notre étude porte sur la blogosphère info-doc française et non institutionnelle, c’est-à-dire sur les blogs tenus par des archivistes, des bibliothécaires, des documentalistes et des chercheurs, dans une position totalement détachée des institutions où ils travaillent. L’objectif est de déterminer quelle est la nature de ce réseau de blogs et quelles sont les formes de médiation qu’il exerce. Différentes analyses sont menées sur un corpus de 5 555 billets publiés par 68 blogueurs entre 2010 et 2012 : une analyse structurale, une analyse du contenu thématique, une analyse du discours, auxquelles s’ajoute une série d’entretiens semi-directifs. Les résultats montrent que cette blogosphère peut être considérée comme une communauté de savoir en ligne dont les membres partagent des connaissances, des savoir-faire et des expériences. Malgré l’hétérogénéité de leur profil, les blogueurs sont réunis autour d’un intérêt commun pour l’info-doc. Ils sont également réunis grâce à des « objets-frontières » et des « acteurs interfaces » qui créent des liens entre eux. En outre, leur activité de partage de connaissances passe par un processus de réification consistant à produire des documents. Les résultats montrent que les blogueurs produisent différents types de documents et exercent une mosaïque de médiations documentaires. À travers leurs pratiques info-communicationnelles ils construisent également leur « identité numérique » et leur présence en ligne et assurent la promotion de leur expertise. Cela engendre alors une autre forme de médiation : une « médiation identitaire ». Tout document publié au sein d’un blog d’expert est donc à la fois le produit d’une médiation documentaire et d’une médiation identitaire. / This doctoral research deals with the new forms of information and knowledge mediation resulted by Web 2.0 technologies. It focuses on blogs and investigates their role in the emergence of informational networks in the field of Library and Information Science (LIS). The study conducted for this doctoral research focused on the French LIS non-institutional blogosphere, i.e. on blogs of archivists, librarians, knowledge managers, or researchers, maintained by themselves independently from any institution. The goal of the study was to define the character of this blog network and the type of information mediation it represents. A sample of 5 555 posts published by 68 bloggers between 2010 and 2012 was analyzed. The following types of analysis were applied: social network analysis, content analysis, discourse analysis, enriched by semi-structured interviews. The results show that this blogosphere might be considered as an online knowledge community whose members share knowledge, know-how, and experience. Despite their different backgrounds, bloggers gather around a common interest in LIS. They also gather thanks to “boundary objects” and “brokers” that provide a link and an interface between them. Moreover, their knowledge sharing activities require a reification process that involves a production of documents. The results of the study reveal that bloggers produce not only a wide range of documents, but also a mosaic of documentary mediations. Through their information and communication practices, bloggers also create their digital identities, build their online presence and promote their expertise. This performs another type of mediation: “identity mediation”. Therefore, any document published in an expert’s blog is subject to both a documentary and identity mediation.

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