[Air-l] teens and myspace

[Nancy Baym]

>
>I think it is essential to remember that the history of personal media
>did not start with computer-mediated communication. Avid users of the
>telephone were hardly stigmatized, were they? Women chatting on the
>telephone were at least perceived as anything but anti-social
...

My understanding is that there were actually a lot of concerns that 
women chattering on the telephone would lead to lesser participation 
in their communities/nation/etc. and that in fact the social use of 
the telephone was seen as a threat at the time.

danah's point about reading is a good one too. Certainly there were 
moral panics of sorts surrounding women's reading novels in the 19th 
century.

Nancy