social web - the academic side

I have been browsing resources to find out about social networking on the Internet - I stumbled upon this great site, http://www.danah.org/papers/.

Danah boyd is a PhD student at the School of Information (SIMS) at the University of California, Berkeley. "My research focuses on how people negotiate a presentation of self to unknown audiences in mediated contexts."

Great material for anyone interested in setting up an online community portal..