USC Annenberg Center Speaker Series - Justin Hall on "Passively Multiplayer Online Games" and danah boyd on "Creating Culture through Collective Identity Performance: MySpace, Youth, and DIY Publics"

Copyright © 2007 (danah boyd, dmb@sims.berkeley.edu, Justin Hall, Justin@bud.com). Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives (by-nc-nd). Available at http://ijoc.org. USC ANNENBERG CENTER SPEAKER SERIES Thursday, November 16, 2006 “Creating Culture through Collective Identity Performance: MySpace, Youth, and DIY Publics” DANAH BOYD University of California, Berkeley danah boyd investigates how youth formulate a presentation of self and negotiate socialization in mediated contexts where the audience is often unknown. She discusses the evolution of social networking sites from SixDegrees to Friendster to MySpace, and how these websites are changing the Internet.