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dc.contributor.authorRobards, Brady
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:33:10Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:33:10Z
dc.date.issued2012
dc.date.modified2013-11-26T02:42:39Z
dc.identifier.issn1030-4312
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/10304312.2012.665836
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/46082
dc.description.abstractIn the past decade, the reach of social network sites such as MySpace and Facebook has extended to a point where for many young people, participation is now mandatory for inclusion amongst peer groups. For some of these young people, large parts of their social lives have been played out on these sites. The shift from one site (MySpace) to another (Facebook) can also be understood as marking an important change in the way young people manage their 'digital trace'. This shift corresponds with narratives in which participants signal their movement towards forms of online sociality that are concerned with their relationships with others on Facebook rather than the often introspective and performative forms of sociality emphasised on MySpace. This article examines elements of each site that participants point towards as contributing to their own shift - both in terms of their functionality and the broader social milieu in which the sites operate. More broadly, this article also considers the 'trace' that is generated by participation on these sites (creating profiles, uploading images, commenting on pages and so on) as representing a key mechanism by which young people's transition narratives can be made accessible and visible amongst their network. This article draws on research from two linked small-scale qualitative studies conducted on the Gold Coast in Australia, the first with a group of ten young people in 2007 and the second with thirty young people in 2009/2010.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeAustralia
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationY
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom385
dc.relation.ispartofpageto398
dc.relation.ispartofissue3
dc.relation.ispartofjournalContinuum
dc.relation.ispartofvolume26
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSociology and Social Studies of Science and Technology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchFilm, Television and Digital Media
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommunication and Media Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCultural Studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode160808
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1902
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2001
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2002
dc.titleLeaving MySpace, joining Facebook: ‘Growing up’ on social network sites
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.rights.copyright© 2012 Taylor & Francis. This is an electronic version of an article published in Continuum, Volume 26, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 385-398. Continuum is available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com with the open URL of your article.
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gro.griffith.authorRobards, Brady J.


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