The Construction of the Virtual Self on MySpace by Goldie Salimkhan, Adriana M. Manago, Patricia M. Greenfield

“…This qualitative study examines communication processes of identity construction within social interactions among emerging adults using MySpace. One-on-one interviews in front of a computer monitor were conducted with five female and five male college students who were active users of MySpace. …”
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Look at me! Look at me! Self-representation and self-exposure through online networks by Kerry Mallan

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A systematic examination of the use of Online social networking sites for sexual health promotion by Hellard Margaret E, Sacks-Davis Rachel, Pedrana Alisa E, Gold Judy, Chang Shanton, Howard Steve, Keogh Louise, Hocking Jane S, Stoove Mark A

“…Facebook was the most commonly used SNS (used by 71% of all health promotion activities identified), followed by MySpace and Twitter. Seventy nine percent of activities on MySpace were considered inactive as there had been no online posts within the past month, compared to 22% of activities using Facebook and 14% of activities using Twitter. …”
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PLATAFORMAS DE MÚSICA ONLINE: Práticas de comunicação e consumo através dos perfis by Adriana Amaral

“…Posteriormente descrevemos essas características e fluxos comunicacionais nas práticas dos usuários em uma observação inicial comparativa entre três plataformas (Last.fm, MySpace, Blip.fm). Consideramos a emergência de algumas categorias de análise: o papel das recomendações e das classificações dos gêneros musicais no Last.fm; o caráter de consciência sobre a audiência segmentada no MySpace; e a constituição de uma reputação por microconteúdos musicais no Blip.fm.…”
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Language and Love by Brian P. Jenssen, Nicola J. Gray, Kevin Harvey, Ralph J. DiClemente, Jonathan D. Klein

“…The 346 participants viewed approximately 28,000 MySpace pages, yielding a 1,147,432-word text corpus. …”
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The Digital Exhibition and Keyimage Ontology / Dijital Sergiler ve Anahtar Resim Ontolojisi by Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh, Kalina Sotirova

“…In our times the explosive expansion of Web 2.0 Social Space, typified by the phenomena of De.licio.us, Flickr, MySpace, YouTube…, and the concomitant emergence of folksonomy, present interesting challenges in the management of this information. …”
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Playful Culture and the Glamorization of Everyday (Virtual) Life: Elements of Play in Facebook Applications by Valentina Rao

“…Are Facebook Applications and its clones in other networks like Bebo or MySpace a form of casual games, are they “just for fun”, how do they participate in the general cultural trend that incorporates play elements in non-play environments? …”
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Web 2.0 Socail Network Sites And Facebook Marketing by Andreas Chang

“…In fact, one of the fastest-growing arenas of the World Wide Web is the space of so-called social networking sites. Face book, Tweeter, MySpace and other Social Network Sites have huge population of users. …”
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The Digital Exhibition and Keyimage Ontology by Mícheál Mac an Airchinnigh, Kalina Sotirova

“…In our times the explosive expansion of Web 2.0 Social Space, typified by the phenomena of De.licio.us, Flickr, MySpace, YouTube…, and the concomitant emergence of folksonomy, present interesting challenges in the management of this information. …”
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The Impact of New Technologies on Leisure in Developed and Emerging Economies by Lynne Ciochetto

“…There has been a major shift in the way people communicate particularly the exponential increase in the use of social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Skype and Baibu. Sites such as iTunes and YouTube have changed the way music and video are accessed, listened to and used. …”
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Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and the English Language ClassroomA Case Study on the Use of ICT by Students and Faculty in the English Language Classroom at the Uni... by María Jesús Vera Cazorla

“…Mientras el uso de las nuevas tecnologías tales como los mensajes de texto, las wikis, las redes sociales y otros servicios interactivos como el Facebook, MySpace, Flickr y YouTube y otras aplicaciones de la Web 2.0 por parte de nuestros alumnos es cada vez más común, no ocurre lo mismo en el caso de muchos profesores universitarios. …”
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NFC Implementation to Improve Business Process by Marisa Karsen

“…The fast growing of social network (Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn) and Smartphone (Blackberry and iPhone) in Indonesia indicate that Indonesian people are already familiar with high technology and it is the right time to introduce new technology in Indonesia. …”
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Cybersecurity on US social networks by Olga Zernetska

“…Influence of American social media on society (Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest, LinkedIn, MySpace, Twitter, Instagram, FriendWise, FriendFinder) is characterized in the article. …”
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A comparative study of Usability and Sociability Of public and specialized social networking websites by Saeed Roshani, Nafiseh Rezaeenik, Seyed Mohammad Hosain Shojaei

“…In this regard, 33 main indexes for these criteria were examined and the result shows that Facebook, Myspace, and Cloob networks have the highest level of compatibility with the criteria among the selected public networks. …”
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Impact of Social Media on Political Efficacy and Vote Intention: A Case of Educated Youth by Sumaira Tufail, Ummel Baneen, Bushra Akram, Rizwan Sajid

“…In this study, a structured questionnaire was used to collect the data by targeting those 320 Master and B.S students who have maintained at least one personal profile on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Blogs, MySpace or any other social networking sites. These respondents were taken through using purposive sampling technique. …”
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The Utilization of Facebook as a Publicity Vehicle During the 2010 Final Season of ABC’s Lost by Anna D’Aloisio

“…Virtual environments like Faceboook.com, Myspace.com, Friendster.com and Twitter.com are becoming increasingly important vehicles for brands to cultivate relationships with their publics. …”
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Візуальна культура в соціальних мережах by Вікторія Василівна Соломатова

“…Розглянуто специфіку візуальної культури в популярних соціальних мережах та мобільних додатках «MySpace», «Instagram», «Webrity», «YouTube», «Facebook», «Snapchat», «Tinder» та досліджено особливості соціальної самоідентифікації користувачів; визначено, що домінуючими тенденціями у візуальній культурі соціальних мереж на сучасному етапі є автентичність, справжність та достовірність презентованих користувачами образів, а прискоренню виявлення трендів та домінуючого візуального засобу привертання уваги аудиторії сприяють мобільні додатки, завдяки можливість швидкої візуальної трансляції; доведено позитивний вплив практик соціального навчання на розвиток особистості засобами візуальної культури в мережі Інтернет. …”
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Assess and rehabilitate body representations via (neuro)robotics: An emergent perspective by Gaia Risso, Gaia Risso, Gaia Risso, Michela Bassolino, Michela Bassolino, Michela Bassolino

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Los estudiantes universitarios ante las redes sociales: cuestiones de uso y agrupación en estructuras elitistas o pluralistas by Alejandro Tapia Frade, Begoña Gómez Nieto, Jose María Herranz de la Casa, Mónica Matellanes-Lazo

“…Este trabajo se centra, dentro de este complejo fenómeno, específicamente en el uso que una parte de los nativos digitales (Fumero y Hervás, 2008:65) hacen de Facebook, MySpace, Tuenti, Hi5, Ringo, Bebo y un amplio número de redes sociales. …”
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Students’ Engagement of Social Networking Sites: An Evaluation of Perception, Gratification, Sociability, Academic and Generalized Usage Patterns by Asad Khan, Mohamad Noorman Masrek, Shafiq Ur Rehman

“…However, generalized use of SNS specifically, Wiki, RSS, Twitter, and MySpace is not considered academic or for research purposes, but for sheer gratification, and sociability. …”
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