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Myspace: www.myspace.com

Introduction

The main purpose of this essay is to describe the social network, MySpace; analysing the modes of the value production, the kind of labour involved or exploited and the business model behind the web surface. Along with this description we provide additional information on the value production of the website and how it transforms its value to money.

Synopsis

MySpace is one of several social networking portals that has been largely recognised in the last several years along with Friendster, http://www.friendster.com, Facebook, http://www.facebook.com and many more. MySpace has developed and become the 5th biggest website worldwide, now having 48 million individual visitors and 27.4 billion page views in June 2006. The users are mostly between 14 and 34 years old, and the numbers of members are growing by 5 million a month, according to MySpace's numbers [Kornblum, 2006]. Since early 2006, MySpace has also offered to access the service......

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