“Un-Friend My Heart: Facebook, Promiscuity, and a Heartbreak in a Neoliberal Age” (2011) by Ilana Gershon Precis

The article “Un-Friend My Heart: Facebook, Promiscuity, and a Heartbreak in a Neoliberal Age” (2011) by Ilana Gershon argues how Facebook affects relationships and people to show that Facebook can be harmful like other social sites. The author talks about college students she interviewed, about Facebook, how Facebook ruins relationships, how they use Facebook after a break up, and why students deactivate their profiles. Her purpose is “that Facebook encourages (but does not require) users to introduce a neoliberal logic to all their intimate relationships, which these particular users believe turns them into selves they do not want to be” (Gershon 865) in order to show the issues it causes and can cause. Facebook users that are in relationships is the audience because she talks about how it affects their relationships during and after the break up but all Facebook users are the audience since it talks about Facebook and its use.

Gershon, Ilana. "Un-Friend My Heart: Facebook, Promiscuity, And Heartbreak In A Neoliberal Age." Anthropological Quarterly 84.4 (2011): 865-894. Academic Search Premier. Web. 12 Feb. 2013.

“Social Network Sites: Definition, History and Scholarship” by Danah M. Boyd and Nicole B. Ellison Precis

In the article “Social Network Sites: Definition, History and Scholarship” (2007) the authors, Danah M. Boyd and Nicole B. Ellison, declare what a social network site, use and history of social network sites. They start with an introduction to social network sites, defining social network sites, a timeline of social network sites, the history of social network sites, previous scholarship, an overview of theme section, and future research. Boyd and Ellison’s purpose is to explain social network sites and their uses in order to inform people about social network sites. The audience is anyone wanting to learn about social network sites.

Boyd, Danah M., and Nicole B. Ellison. "Social Network Sites: Definition, History, And Scholarship." Journal Of Computer-Mediated Communication 13.1 (2007): 210-230. Communication & Mass Media Complete. Web. 5 Feb. 2013.

Policing Social Media” by Daniel Trottier Precis

In “Policing Social Media” (2012) by Daniel Trottier claims police and other professions use Facebook and fake Facebook profiles to explain that they use social networking sites to find out information. The author writes that Facebook was used in Vancouver for the 2011 riot, the theory of policing the media, describes how Facebook was used in the 2011 Vancouver riot, investigating through fake Facebook profiles, how police legally use fake profiles, the relations between the police and public, and if social networks are insecure. Trottier’s purpose is just to inform the use of social networking sites in order to explain how they use it, that it is legal and relations with the public. The audience for this is police and Facebook users that think that their rights are violated when police collect evidence from their profiles online.

Trottier, Daniel. "Policing Social Media." Canadian Review of Sociology 49.4 (2012): 411-425. Academic Search Premier. Web. 5 Feb. 2013.

“Facebook Fakebook” by Ruth Ellen Gruber Precis

Ruth Ellen Gruber’s article “Facebook Fakebook” (2009) claims that there are tons of fake Facebook profiles and other fake e-profiles for many different reasons. Gruber explains what Facebook is, talks about how an impostor created a fake Facebook of one of her friends, how she researched fake profiles and why they are created, how people have their Facebook page set up, how it can be dangerous and how it can affect them from getting job. Her purpose is to inform the reader in order to tell then that there are people that create fake Facebook profiles and other fake e-profiles for dangerous reasons and a person should be careful what they post on it. This entire article is about Facebook and other social networking so the intended audience for this would be people that have social networking profiles and people considering to get a social networking profile.

Gruber, Ruth Ellen. "Facebook Fakebook." New Leader 92.2 (2009): 8-10. Academic Search Premier. Web. 5 Feb. 2013.

Precis of "Students Create Fake E-Profiles to Bully Peers" by Michelle R. Davis

            Michelle R. Davis talks about fake cyber e-profiles and cyber bulling in her article “Students Create Fake E-Profiles to Bully Peers” (2012) suggest the issues that fake e-profiles are causing. Davis starts off talking about a couple cases were fake e-profiles were created to bully students, how its dealt with, the legal issues with fake e-profiles and cyber profiles, the alternatives to court and how a school that dealt with a fake e-profile learned a lesson form the experience and created rules to keep it from happening again. The author’s purpose is to bring fake e-profiles and cyber bulling to schools and the law attention in order to have rules/laws created to keep it from happing since both students’ and staffs identities are being taken to bully other students. School staff and the government are the audience of this because both could keep this from happening but parents can also be the audience so that they could keep their child from being bullied by a fake e-profile.

Davis, Michelle R. "Students Create Fake E-Profiles to Bully Peers." Education Week 31.27 (2012): 1-13. Academic Search Premier. Web. 5 Feb. 2013.