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简介：背景和理论基础
自英特网出现和兴盛以来，新闻界也逐步发生了变化。随着万维网的传播，社交网站（我们有时也称之为SNS）迅速普及并涵盖了各种年龄段的用户。

社交网站是一种“基于网络的服务，为用户提供（1）在一个封闭环境中，发布公开或半公开的信息；（2）告知一群其他用户，他们是和谁在交流；（3）查看这个环境中和其他用户保持联系的用户信息，或与他们建立联系。不同网站中这种联系的性质和对它的称呼可能会有所不同（博伊德和埃里森，2007年提出）。”

目前，数百万用户正在使用不同的社交网站，比如说脸书、聚友网、朋友网、Bebo网等。这些网络社区为迎合不同偏好和兴趣的人群而设置，且大多数用户“将这些社交网站与他们的日常生活融为一体（博伊德和埃里森，2007年提出。）”

社交网站使常常为用户提供与朋友、家人、以前的同学和熟人在网络世界重新取得联系的机会。

About internet
Published: 23, March 2015

简介：背景和理论基础——INTRODUCTIONBackground and Rationale

The media landscape has evolved since the internet emerged and flourished. Together with the widespread use of the World Wide Web is the rapid popularity of social networking sites, sometimes called social network sites, among people of all ages.

Social network sites are “web-based services that allow individuals to (1) construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, (2) articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and (3) view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site (Boyd and Ellison 2007.)”

Millions of users are now using different social networking sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Friendster and Bebo among others. These sites have catered to different preferences and interests of people, and most of the members “have integrated these sites into their daily practices (Boyd and Ellison 2007.)”

Social network sites often offer the members to reunite with their friends, family members, former schoolmates and acquaintances in the cyber world. But amazingly, some of these sites also allow the user to meet other people whom he or she does not personally know, thus widening his or her social network. It literally breaks the notion of distance, thus creating a more intimate and familiar sphere from which people get to interact despite physical absence.

Other than connectivity, social networking sites also allow the users to express themselves through shout outs, status messages, blog, notes, tags and bulletins. The messages or contents of those features are primarily based on the preference of the user. Another remarkable feature is the ability of other users to post comments on another user's blog, note, and status message or shout out. This aspect therefore allows more exchange of ideas, online debates and communication.

Because of the features and the popularity SNS has achieved, senators, congressmen and other politicians have created their own SNS profiles, while others also maintained personal websites. This gave them instant and easy publicity, plus a wide connection of voters and future voting public. “Commentators and journalists have often seen the expansion of interactive media technology on the Internet as telltale signs that the Web has broken through the barriers of communication between candidates and citizens (Romano 2009.)”

Aside from personal profiles, other SNS users post blogs, shout outs or status messages containing their two cents worth on political and social issues. The issues may range from local, national or international in scope, generally based on the interest or preference of the user. Other users then, having read the posts send thei