From MySpace to Myspace Myspace is a website which had a rather dramatic fall from grace. What was once the most popular social media site on the globe now stands as a virtual ghost town. While competition with Facebook is to blame for much of Myspace’s loss, it is not the only contributing factor; privacy… Continue reading Final Research Paper

Hello dear readers. Truthfully, my Robinson Crusoe Myspace adventure is not done yet. I still have a day to submit it officially and I intend to use it to finish up the story and tie up any loose ends. However, I have some time and am in between posts, so I figured it would be… Continue reading Final Creative Project

So, by the end of this semester, I honestly feel a little disappointed with the work I've done on this site. I'll explain why in a moment, but I should first explain what I did to change the site at this point. I added an "About" page to make it more personal and relevant to… Continue reading Final Website Reflection

My modernized version of Robinson Crusoe told through social media starts with the creation of a Twitter account. The tweet on top is the most recent one. https://twitter.com/R_Crusoe1632 Once again, this Twitter account is only the beginning of the story. You can find the account at @R_Crusoe1632. The rest of the story can be found… Continue reading Creative Project Rough Draft

Two things I have learned throughout the years are this: Myspace nowadays is a pretty terrible social network, and I hate the Daniel Defoe novel Robinson Crusoe. Under normal circumstances, these two statements would be completely unrelated, but in this case I want to use the bizarre similarities between them to help form the creative… Continue reading Creative Project Proposal

Myspace is a website which had a rather dramatic fall from grace. What was once the most popular social media site on the globe for several years now stands as a ghost town–a remnant of the pre-Facebook era of social media. The site has gone through multiple iterations, and several changes in ownership, which has… Continue reading Research Paper Rough Draft

Boyle, Kris, and Thomas J. Johnson. "MySpace is your space? Examining self-presentation of MySpace users." Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 26, no. 6, Nov. 2010, pp. 1392-99. Science Direct, doi:10.1016/j.chb.2010.04.015. This article acts as a study of self-presentation in social media, done by analyzing the information found on public profiles on MySpace, which, at the… Continue reading Annotated Bibliography