Facebook: What Did It Actually Invent?
In short: Profiles, friend lists and online communities existed before Facebook; this film traces how Facebook grew from campus networks and confirmed friendships into a News Feed, a developer platform and a vast graph whose stories came to be chosen by algorithms.
A 2:09 short film in the series “Being Social Online”, narrated by intellect_voice_01.
Sources used in this film: Academia.edu (hosting a 2007 Journal of Computer-mediated Communication article and abstracts of related papers), “Social Network Sites: Definition History and Scholarship”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “SixDegrees.com | American company | Britannica”; Encyclopaedia Britannica, “Social network | Definition, Examples, & Facts | Britannica”; The Atlantic, “Before It Conquered the World, Facebook Conquered Harvard”; ScribbleWiki: Analysis of Social Media (student summary hosted on a Carnegie Mellon University course page) of Stutzman, F., 2006 iDMAa and IMS Code Conference paper, “Stutzman, IDMA and IMS Code 2006”; Physica A (Elsevier B.V.): 'Social structure of Facebook networks' by Amanda L. Traud, Peter J. Mucha and Mason A. Porter (2012), hosted on Mason Porter's University of Oxford Mathematical Institute …, “datadump.pdf”; Facebook (official company blog, open letter signed by Mark Zuckerberg; archived by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine), “An Open Letter from Mark Zuckerberg: | Facebook”; Meta (Facebook Newsroom, company press release), “Facebook Launches Additional Privacy Controls for News Feed and Mini-Feed”; Michael A. DeVito, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University (pre-print of a 2016 article in Digital Journalism), “Untitled”; Mack Institute for Innovation Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (working paper by Dokyun Lee, Kartik Hosanagar and Harikesh S. Nair), “FB_0602_EDIT-DK-KH-HSN.dvi”; Reuters, “Facebook becomes hub for outside software makers”; Meta (Facebook Newsroom), “Facebook Unveils Platform for Developers of Social Applications”; University of California, Davis (Nazir, Raza and Chuah), paper presented at ACM IMC'08 (Internet Measurement Conference), 2008, “imc08_facebook.pdf”; Facebook research team (Ugander, Karrer, Backstrom, Marlow), arXiv preprint 1111.4503 hosted on Stanford SNAP course readings, “backstrom12fb.pdf”.
Sources used in this film
- Academia.edu (hosting a 2007 Journal of Computer-mediated Communication article and abstracts of related papers) — Social Network Sites: Definition History and Scholarship · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — SixDegrees.com | American company | Britannica · View →
- Encyclopaedia Britannica — Social network | Definition, Examples, & Facts | Britannica · View →
- The Atlantic — Before It Conquered the World, Facebook Conquered Harvard · View →
- ScribbleWiki: Analysis of Social Media (student summary hosted on a Carnegie Mellon University course page) of Stutzman, F., 2006 iDMAa and IMS Code Conference paper — Stutzman, IDMA and IMS Code 2006 · View →
- Physica A (Elsevier B.V.): 'Social structure of Facebook networks' by Amanda L. Traud, Peter J. Mucha and Mason A. Porter (2012), hosted on Mason Porter's University of Oxford Mathematical Institute … — datadump.pdf · View →
- Facebook (official company blog, open letter signed by Mark Zuckerberg; archived by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine) — An Open Letter from Mark Zuckerberg: | Facebook · View →
- Meta (Facebook Newsroom, company press release) — Facebook Launches Additional Privacy Controls for News Feed and Mini-Feed · View →
- Michael A. DeVito, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University (pre-print of a 2016 article in Digital Journalism) — Untitled · View →
- Mack Institute for Innovation Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (working paper by Dokyun Lee, Kartik Hosanagar and Harikesh S. Nair) — FB_0602_EDIT-DK-KH-HSN.dvi · View →
- Reuters — Facebook becomes hub for outside software makers · View →
- Meta (Facebook Newsroom) — Facebook Unveils Platform for Developers of Social Applications · View →
- University of California, Davis (Nazir, Raza and Chuah), paper presented at ACM IMC'08 (Internet Measurement Conference), 2008 — imc08_facebook.pdf · View →
- Facebook research team (Ugander, Karrer, Backstrom, Marlow), arXiv preprint 1111.4503 hosted on Stanford SNAP course readings — backstrom12fb.pdf · View →
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Sources
- Summary by Intellect · source: Academia.edu (hosting the 2007 Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication article 'Social Network Sites: Definition, His: Social Network Sites: Definition History and Scholarship
- Also: Encyclopaedia Britannica: SixDegrees.com | American company | Britannica
- Also: Encyclopaedia Britannica: Social network | Definition, Examples, & Facts | Britannica
- Also: The Atlantic: Before It Conquered the World, Facebook Conquered Harvard
- Also: ScribbleWiki: Analysis of Social Media (student summary hosted on a Carnegie Mellon University course page) of Stutzman,: Stutzman, IDMA and IMS Code 2006
- Also: Physica A (Elsevier B.V.): 'Social structure of Facebook networks' by Amanda L. Traud, Peter J. Mucha and Mason A. Porte: datadump.pdf
- Also: Facebook (official company blog, open letter signed by Mark Zuckerberg; archived by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine: An Open Letter from Mark Zuckerberg: | Facebook
- Also: Meta (Facebook Newsroom, company press release): Facebook Launches Additional Privacy Controls for News Feed and Mini-Feed
- Also: Michael A. DeVito, Department of Communication Studies, Northwestern University (pre-print of a 2016 article in Digital : Untitled
- Also: Mack Institute for Innovation Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (working paper by Dokyun Lee, K: FB_0602_EDIT-DK-KH-HSN.dvi
- Also: Reuters: Facebook becomes hub for outside software makers
- Also: Meta (Facebook Newsroom): Facebook Unveils Platform for Developers of Social Applications
- Also: University of California, Davis (Nazir, Raza and Chuah), paper presented at ACM IMC'08 (Internet Measurement Conference): imc08_facebook.pdf
- Also: Facebook research team (Ugander, Karrer, Backstrom, Marlow), arXiv preprint 1111.4503 hosted on Stanford SNAP course rea: backstrom12fb.pdf
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