[Air-l] myspace and race

[Fred Stutzman]

Nicolas Hamatake, David Lifson and Saket Navlakha prepared a paper for a 
graduate level class that deals heavily with race.  The paper is entitled: 
The Facebook: Analysis of a Cornell Community Social Network.

The paper can be downloaded here:
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/nh39/papers/cs685.pdf

The authors acknowledge the methodological shortcomings of the study, and 
it has not been peer-reviewed.  And also, its not about Myspace.  That 
said, it should be interested to a few of us who haven't come across the 
paper yet.

-Fred

On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, danah boyd wrote:

> I know of none but would be very interested in this.  I am paying
> attention to the (lack of) diversity in youth networks on these
> sites.  For example, even in schools that are racially mixed, the
> profiles people connect to on MySpace are very homogeneous.
>
> On Mar 24, 2006, at 7:36 PM, Greg Wise wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>> Just following up on the myspace thread that bounced around here
>> last month: anyone know of any work regarding myspace and race? In
>> particular representation, self-presentation, etc. of race on
>> myspace (or similar sites). The article in the NYT a few weeks ago
>> on online self-portraits got me thinking about identity performance
>> and negotiation on such sites.
>>
>> cheers,
>>
>> Greg Wise
>> _______________________________________________
>> The air-l at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
>> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
>> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://
>> listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
>>
>> Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
>> http://www.aoir.org/
>
> - - - - - - - - - - d a n a h ( d o t ) o r g - - - - - - - - - -
> "taken out of context i must seem so strange"
>
> musings :: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> The air-l at listserv.aoir.org mailing list
> is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org
> Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org
>
> Join the Association of Internet Researchers:
> http://www.aoir.org/
>

-- 
Fred Stutzman
http://claimID.com
AIM: chimprawk
919-260-8508