This is a fascinating essay...I think spot on:
http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html
American class divisions through MySpace and Facebook
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American class divisions through MySpace and Facebook
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This is a bothersome article.
Isn't the idea of a network such that it branches out/ webs, eventually transcending cultural/ socio-economic boundaries?
Some nice sweeping generalizations that don't resonate with many people as true at all in this article..... e.g.:
"The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other "good" kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college. They are part of what we'd call hegemonic society. They are primarily white, but not exclusively. They are in honors classes, looking forward to the prom, and live in a world dictated by after school activities.
MySpace is still home for Latino/Hispanic teens, immigrant teens, "burnouts," "alternative kids," "art fags," punks, emos, goths, gangstas, queer kids, and other kids who didn't play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm. These are kids whose parents didn't go to college, who are expected to get a job when they finish high school."
Really? I choose myspace primarily, always have. Maybe I'm just an outlier. Speaking of data... does this author really have any? Can we do any stochastic anlysis?
All I can find is some bullshit about "engaged in ethnographic research on social network sites since February 2003 when I began studying the practices that emerged on Friendster.... formally interviewed 90 teens in 7 states with a variety of different backgrounds and demographics"
Not the largest sample size I've ever seen for a legitimate review of nationwide trends... Shit with approx @ last check, even reviewing 10k profiles really doesn't amount to much when Business Week published circa November of 05, that there were over 24.2 unique myspace users. (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ ... 908925.htm)
It's 2007 now, I'm no math major, but I'll assume the number is larger now.... Are these all lower social class people? Really? Wow.
Isn't the idea of a network such that it branches out/ webs, eventually transcending cultural/ socio-economic boundaries?
Some nice sweeping generalizations that don't resonate with many people as true at all in this article..... e.g.:
"The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other "good" kids are now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who emphasize education and going to college. They are part of what we'd call hegemonic society. They are primarily white, but not exclusively. They are in honors classes, looking forward to the prom, and live in a world dictated by after school activities.
MySpace is still home for Latino/Hispanic teens, immigrant teens, "burnouts," "alternative kids," "art fags," punks, emos, goths, gangstas, queer kids, and other kids who didn't play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm. These are kids whose parents didn't go to college, who are expected to get a job when they finish high school."
Really? I choose myspace primarily, always have. Maybe I'm just an outlier. Speaking of data... does this author really have any? Can we do any stochastic anlysis?
All I can find is some bullshit about "engaged in ethnographic research on social network sites since February 2003 when I began studying the practices that emerged on Friendster.... formally interviewed 90 teens in 7 states with a variety of different backgrounds and demographics"
Not the largest sample size I've ever seen for a legitimate review of nationwide trends... Shit with approx @ last check, even reviewing 10k profiles really doesn't amount to much when Business Week published circa November of 05, that there were over 24.2 unique myspace users. (http://www.businessweek.com/technology/ ... 908925.htm)
It's 2007 now, I'm no math major, but I'll assume the number is larger now.... Are these all lower social class people? Really? Wow.
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isn't that called natural selection??
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not very objective.
"I don't have the data to confirm whether or not a significant shift has occurred but it was one of those observations that just made me think. "
this is when I stopped reading.
Why would anyone compare the two anyway...the site function differ. Almost no level of expression in facebook.
Expression is what I believe drives myspace.
"I don't have the data to confirm whether or not a significant shift has occurred but it was one of those observations that just made me think. "
this is when I stopped reading.
Why would anyone compare the two anyway...the site function differ. Almost no level of expression in facebook.
Expression is what I believe drives myspace.
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narcissistic bands and djs, as well as 14 year olds and celebrities drive myspace
im on there too, but its only because the *whole world* is there...so i might as well be
but i dont like it
im on there too, but its only because the *whole world* is there...so i might as well be
but i dont like it
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