(Writer's note: I would like to apologize for the next series of posts, as they are going to deal with my dissertation and may be slightly technical. I'll mark this post as a dissertation in the tags. Thanks in advance.) The development of a profile on an online social network...
After reviewing the literature associated with this field of study, it suggested to me to look at online social networks from the online-offline dynamic. The online-offline dynamic is defined as the ability of an online social network to develop and maintain relationships and transfer those relationships to the real world...
One of the significant works in cyberstudies is Donna Haraway's "A Cyborg Manifesto." She argues that she would rather be a cyborg as it is a "social reality… our most important political construction, a world-changing fiction." This centerpiece of organic substance and mechanical precision forms the basis of Haraway's religion....
