[Air-l] viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
Jason Wilson
jason_a_wilson at yahoo.com.au
Wed Jun 27 20:34:53 PDT 2007
Hi all
On this topic, I wrote something last week comparing the shift from MySpace to Facebook to "white flight" on a group blog I am involved with via the New Media Research Group at the University of Bedfordshire.
http://mad.beds.ac.uk/nmrg/?p=60
I plan to turn this into something longer - right now I'm thinking through the methodological implications of using freely available marketing-oriented demographics in a critical context. I think that this stuff may be useful when we want to react in a timely way to situations thta are in flux, such as the current shift towards Facebook, which I think has an aesthetic, privacy functions and a narrative of "tech success" that appeals to a middle-class, tech-savvy audience.
Cheers
Jason Wilson
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From: Frank Thomas <news.ftr at free.fr>
To: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
Sent: Thursday, 28 June, 2007 9:20:10 AM
Subject: Re: [Air-l] viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
Hi Danah,
Félicitations. Even Le Monde cites you:
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-651865,36-928363@51-928862,0.html
The Fondation Internet Nouvelle Génération (FING) in Paris interviewed
Hélène Delaunay-Téterel about the social distinction in French blogs
(which seems to be different from the US American one) :
http://www.ent-leblog.net/upfing06/2006/06/interview_upfin_2.html
Cheers
Frank Thomas
danah boyd wrote:
> A week ago, folks were talking about class divisions around Facebook
> and MySpace use in teen culture. I was in the middle of writing an
> essay about that exact topic(and some folks have heard me speak to
> this issue over the last few months) so i didn't want to peep up
> until i had written what i could. I finally gave up and realized
> that I didn't have the proper words for talking about this issue so I
> wrote an essay with caveats. I offer it to you to tear to shreds in
> the hopes that maybe some good can come out of it. (I didn't include
> the full text here because it's long - i hope the link doesn't
> discourage folks from checking it out.) Feedback is *very* welcome.
>
> Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
> http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html
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> [Barry - i disagree with your view that it's just local clustering
> dependent on a random local seed. I've seen this in too many schools
> in too many states in the United States to believe that this isn't
> about class. I can't speak to Canada or Britain or anywhere else. I
> also can't speak to adult usage. I'm talking solely about high
> school teen usage in the US. If you've got ideas for how to measure
> this quantitatively when demarcating class is difficult, i'm all ears.]
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