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    Facebook : utopia, dystopia or heterotopia

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    Date
    2010
    Publisher
    BRAC University
    Author
    Zaman, Tabassum
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10361/5174
    Citation
    Zaman, T. (2010). Facebook : utopia, dystopia or heterotopia. BRAC University Journal, Special Issue(01), 170–179.
    Abstract
    Social networking sites (SNSs) like Facebook, Friendster, Orkut, Hi5, and MySpace have accelerated and changed the meaning of communication for millions of computer users around the world. The growing number of people joining these SNSs and the ascending rate of their usage hours make this rather somatically taxing experience qualify semiotically as quite a potent field of research. This paper investigates the time-space defying locus provided by one particular SNS, Facebook and its multilateral usage pattern with all its complex dynamics, to bring to light the mechanisms that are vital for its successful functioning. Over the years, the space provided by the SNS or the Internet in general has been considered under different hypothetical frames – as a public sphere, democratic space, private space, virtual community, discursive space, transformative site, or even a non-space. The paper, however, posits that it is not one particular frame, but a fusion of all these frames, forming one alternative space, heterotopic in nature, which can explain why SNSs, particularly Facebook have such escalating popularity among its members from all age groups.
    Keywords
    Facebook
    Description
    Includes bibliographical references (page 178-179).
    Department
    Department of English and Humanities, BRAC University
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    Article
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