[Air-l] back to myspace (the quizes that kids have on them)

[radhika gajjala]

Hi,

getting back to myspace and race.

Since my group of students and I have been focused on looking at 
biracial users from low-income bacgrounds and have been going back 
and forth from doing user-end interviews to doing textual/semiotic 
analyses of their (and their listed friends') sites -and since on 
myspace I am connected to mostly non-white groups (South Asians etc) 
I actually have less general knowledge about the "white" populations 
in these spaces.

So my question is for those of you who are studying myspace and doing 
analyses of white-appearing youngsters - can you tell me the 
significance of the quizzes they tend to have link to their sites - 
if they do?

thanks,


radhika

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