Facebook : a simulation of friendship.
Facebook, one of the most popular social networking sites, has attracted many users worldwide. In trying to understand this new and emerging phenomenon, I have attempted to find out the attraction and widespread usage of Facebook. I argue, with Baudrillard’s notion of simulation and reality, that Fa...
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| author | Khoo, Yi Ping. |
| author2 | Kwok Kian Woon Anthony |
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| description | Facebook, one of the most popular social networking sites, has attracted many users worldwide. In trying to understand this new and emerging phenomenon, I have attempted to find out the attraction and widespread usage of Facebook. I argue, with Baudrillard’s notion of simulation and reality, that Facebook is a simulation of friendship and that it has changed the dialectic between the meaning of friendship and the types of social relation. In this study, I have engaged in participation observation in and on Facebook, 35 in-depth interviews and 80 Facebook profile content analysis to find out this Facebook phenomenon. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/153602019-12-10T12:27:30Z Facebook : a simulation of friendship. Khoo, Yi Ping. Kwok Kian Woon Anthony School of Humanities and Social Sciences DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media Facebook, one of the most popular social networking sites, has attracted many users worldwide. In trying to understand this new and emerging phenomenon, I have attempted to find out the attraction and widespread usage of Facebook. I argue, with Baudrillard’s notion of simulation and reality, that Facebook is a simulation of friendship and that it has changed the dialectic between the meaning of friendship and the types of social relation. In this study, I have engaged in participation observation in and on Facebook, 35 in-depth interviews and 80 Facebook profile content analysis to find out this Facebook phenomenon. Bachelor of Arts 2009-04-28T01:28:38Z 2009-04-28T01:28:38Z 2009 2009 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15360 en Nanyang Technological University 32 p. application/pdf |
| spellingShingle | DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media Khoo, Yi Ping. Facebook : a simulation of friendship. |
| title | Facebook : a simulation of friendship. |
| title_full | Facebook : a simulation of friendship. |
| title_fullStr | Facebook : a simulation of friendship. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Facebook : a simulation of friendship. |
| title_short | Facebook : a simulation of friendship. |
| title_sort | facebook a simulation of friendship |
| topic | DRNTU::Social sciences::Mass media |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10356/15360 |
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