[Air-L] facebook ethnic diversity?

Didem Türkoğlu didem.turkoglu at gmail.com
Thu Dec 17 13:34:45 PST 2009


Personally I found it quite repulsive in terms of using the discourse of
diversity (thus reenacting racial and ethnic boundaries) for marketing
purposes. Am I overpessimistic?
Didem

2009/12/17 live <human.factor.one at gmail.com>

> I found it quite interesting.
> I was intrigued and surprised by the relative saturation of Asian users.
>
> (Btw Facebook's sociologist is Cameron from MIT Media Lab, and they sourced
> from Census Genealogy and used mixture modeling, so I feel comfortable about
> how the data was gathered and used.)
>
>
> -Sharon
>
> -------------------------
> Sharon Greenfield
> Marylhurst University
> http://www.sharoncountry.com
> @SharonG
>
>
> On Dec 17, 2009, at 3:57 AM, Seda Guerses wrote:
>
>
>> i am very curious to hear what people on this list think of this note from
>> facebook?
>> s.
>>
>> http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=205925658858&id=8394258414&ref=mf
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