[Air-L] Facebook's class divide - implications
Jessika Tremblay
jessika.tremblay at gmail.com
Fri Sep 28 09:30:15 PDT 2018
Daniel Miller wrote about this a few years ago as well (see link below),
though it was less about class than it was about generational shifts. Teens
in Europe were migrating from Facebook to a variety of social media
platforms like what's app and Line to avoid their parents' presence (and
also lack of prestige, as others on here have mentioned).
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/dec/27/facebook-dead-and-buried-to-teens-research-finds
best,
Jessika Tremblay
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> From: "Bell, Valarie" <Valarie.Bell at unt.edu>
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> Hi David: as a matter of fact, I?m close to finishing a FB study largely
> dealing with class issues. Please contact me at Valarie.Bell at unt.edu for
> more details.
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> Thanks,
>
> Dr. Valarie J. Bell
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> Mayborn School of Journalism,
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> Dear all,
>
> I am writing a piece for The Conversation about the social implications of
> the recent sharp decline in the use of Facebook in the US by wealthier
> teens
> https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fqz.com%2F1355827%2Fdo-teens-use-facebook-it-depends-on-their-familys-income%2F&data=01%7C01%7CValarie.Bell%40unt.edu%7C47c73674fd94434e43be08d624b3db78%7C70de199207c6480fa318a1afcba03983%7C0&sdata=5q%2BtiBnPkECp5tsSNgiwLjWHwPPP0jD1r%2Fv412Kn5pg%3D&reserved=0,
> speculating on the social implications of this shift. I made some
> conjectures about this but the editors wanted some empirical backup for
> these if possible, so here are some of the issues I raise - I would be
> interested if anyone could suggest good references that relate to any of
> them!
>
> * Do we have any idea why wealthy American teens are leaving Facebook? It
> surprised me since it was wealthier MySpace users who migrated to Facebook
> in the first place.
> * Do we have evidence that widespread Facebook use may have helped
> facilitate inter-cultural or inter-class communication/understanding? I
> speculate it might because even if FB tends to show you strong tie
> information, you might still get glimpses of the lives and concerns of
> people you knew whose lives have taken different paths. If the wealthy
> leave FB they might lose some of that information and empathy?
>
> My second half is about the shift from a textual to a visual ?culture?
> which a move away from FB towards Instagram and Snapchat might represent.
>
> * Do we have any quantitative evidence for this shift (eg shortening
> length of text used in online communication?)
> * Do we know anything about whether richer/more well-educated people are
> more effective at getting their message across using social media video and
> images than poorer? I would argue yes because they have the time and
> resources to learn and employ editing techniques and use better hardware
> and software to do so while poorer people might tend just to put out ?raw?
> video. Visible minorities also may find their message sidelined because of
> their visible lower ?status?. Whereas text is meant to be more of a status
> leveller than f2f (though of course we know this is not entirely true).
>
> Pardon the rant. If there is no good scholarship on some of these points,
> I will be making the point that more scholarship is needed which may help
> some of you to get grants ;-)
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
> --
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> Please share widely with colleagues. Thank you, Alfred
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> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 23:37:36 +0300
> From: Dimitris Gouscos <gouscos at media.uoa.gr>
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> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook's class divide - implications
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> dear David,
>
> I am watching this list for very nice issues and ideas that come along,
> and just saw your post
>
> without having readily at hand the references to back up my view, I
> recall it was George Bernard Shaw that had been arguing in his essays
> (maybe in What socialism is (Fabian tract 13), cf.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_George_Bernard_Shaw#Political_writings),
>
> that sun tanning became fashionable as an outspring of the industrial
> revolution, just in the same way thatin earlier timespale skin had
> become a sign of nobleness and beauty in outdoors-work based economies
>
> the point I'm trying to make, in fact, is that the answer to your
> question may exist in what you already mention yourself, that wealthier
> (teen) users will at some point be looking at migrating away from a
> network which has now lost (in their own perception of their own
> society) its elite/status-symbol character ...
>
> do you think this could be so? Just a thought ...
>
> regards,
>
> Dimitris
>
>
> ---
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>
> ???? 27/9/2018 11:03 ??, ? David Brake ??????:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am writing a piece for The Conversation about the social implications
> of the recent sharp decline in the use of Facebook in the US by wealthier
> teens
> https://qz.com/1355827/do-teens-use-facebook-it-depends-on-their-familys-income/,
> speculating on the social implications of this shift. I made some
> conjectures about this but the editors wanted some empirical backup for
> these if possible, so here are some of the issues I raise - I would be
> interested if anyone could suggest good references that relate to any of
> them!
> >
> > * Do we have any idea why wealthy American teens are leaving Facebook?
> It surprised me since it was wealthier MySpace users who migrated to
> Facebook in the first place.
> > * Do we have evidence that widespread Facebook use may have helped
> facilitate inter-cultural or inter-class communication/understanding? I
> speculate it might because even if FB tends to show you strong tie
> information, you might still get glimpses of the lives and concerns of
> people you knew whose lives have taken different paths. If the wealthy
> leave FB they might lose some of that information and empathy?
> >
> > My second half is about the shift from a textual to a visual ?culture?
> which a move away from FB towards Instagram and Snapchat might represent.
> >
> > * Do we have any quantitative evidence for this shift (eg shortening
> length of text used in online communication?)
> > * Do we know anything about whether richer/more well-educated people are
> more effective at getting their message across using social media video and
> images than poorer? I would argue yes because they have the time and
> resources to learn and employ editing techniques and use better hardware
> and software to do so while poorer people might tend just to put out ?raw?
> video. Visible minorities also may find their message sidelined because of
> their visible lower ?status?. Whereas text is meant to be more of a status
> leveller than f2f (though of course we know this is not entirely true).
> >
> > Pardon the rant. If there is no good scholarship on some of these
> points, I will be making the point that more scholarship is needed which
> may help some of you to get grants ;-)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > David
> >
> > --
> > Dr David Brake, Researcher and Educator http://davidbrake.org/, @drbrake
> > Author of "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media?
> https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline <
> https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 20:42:47 +0000
> From: "Barett T. Christensen" <bchristensen at bwf.com>
> To: David Brake <davidbrake at gmail.com>, AoIR mailing list
> <Air-L at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook's class divide - implications
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> This is not formal research nor is it a response to trends, but it may be
> interesting. Using the Ads Manager, here is the current number of teens
> (13-18) on Facebook and Instagram and their distributions by zip code
> values. You will see that 65% of teens on Facebook live in the bottom half
> of zip codes in the United States, while 37% of teens live in the top half
> of zip codes. You will also see that 67% of teens on Instagram live in the
> bottom half of zip code values in the United States, while 33% of teens
> live in the top half of zip codes.
>
> Facebook currently has a wealthier teen audience by count and percentage
> of total teens.
>
> 1. There are approximately 8.8 million teens on Facebook.
> a. 320K (or 4%) live in the top 5% of wealthy zip codes.
> b. 660K (or 8%) live in the top 6-10% of wealthy zip codes.
> c. 920K (or 11%) live in the top 11-25% of wealthy zip codes.
> d. 1.2M (or 14%) live in the top 26-50% of wealthy zip codes.
> e. That leaves 5.7 million teens (or 65%) on Facebook living in
> the bottom half of zip codes in the United States.
>
> 2. There are approximately 7 million teens on Instagram.
> a. 250K (or 4%) live in the top 5% of wealthy zip codes.
> b. 520K (or 7%) live in the top 6-10% of wealthy zip codes.
> c. 680K (or 10%) live in the top 11-25% of wealthy zip codes.
> d. 840K (or 12%) live in the top 26-50% of wealthy zip codes.
> e. That leaves 2.3 million teens (or 67%) on Instagram living in
> the bottom half of zip codes in the United States.
>
>
> Barett
> Director, Marketing and Digital Services
> Bentz Whaley Flessner
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of David Brake
> Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2018 3:03 PM
> To: AoIR mailing list <Air-L at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: [Air-L] Facebook's class divide - implications
>
> Dear all,
>
> I am writing a piece for The Conversation about the social implications of
> the recent sharp decline in the use of Facebook in the US by wealthier
> teens
> https://qz.com/1355827/do-teens-use-facebook-it-depends-on-their-familys-income/,
> speculating on the social implications of this shift. I made some
> conjectures about this but the editors wanted some empirical backup for
> these if possible, so here are some of the issues I raise - I would be
> interested if anyone could suggest good references that relate to any of
> them!
>
> * Do we have any idea why wealthy American teens are leaving Facebook? It
> surprised me since it was wealthier MySpace users who migrated to Facebook
> in the first place.
> * Do we have evidence that widespread Facebook use may have helped
> facilitate inter-cultural or inter-class communication/understanding? I
> speculate it might because even if FB tends to show you strong tie
> information, you might still get glimpses of the lives and concerns of
> people you knew whose lives have taken different paths. If the wealthy
> leave FB they might lose some of that information and empathy?
>
> My second half is about the shift from a textual to a visual ?culture?
> which a move away from FB towards Instagram and Snapchat might represent.
>
> * Do we have any quantitative evidence for this shift (eg shortening
> length of text used in online communication?)
> * Do we know anything about whether richer/more well-educated people are
> more effective at getting their message across using social media video and
> images than poorer? I would argue yes because they have the time and
> resources to learn and employ editing techniques and use better hardware
> and software to do so while poorer people might tend just to put out ?raw?
> video. Visible minorities also may find their message sidelined because of
> their visible lower ?status?. Whereas text is meant to be more of a status
> leveller than f2f (though of course we know this is not entirely true).
>
> Pardon the rant. If there is no good scholarship on some of these points,
> I will be making the point that more scholarship is needed which may help
> some of you to get grants ;-)
>
> Regards,
>
> David
>
> --
> Dr David Brake, Researcher and Educator http://davidbrake.org/, @drbrake
> Author of "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media?
> https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline <
> https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 17:24:33 -0400
> From: Chris Julien <juliencm22 at gmail.com>
> To: davidbrake at gmail.com
> Cc: Air-L at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook's class divide - implications
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>
> Hello David,
>
> Perhaps the move mirrors reasons found by danah boyd as she investigated
> teen flight from myspace to facebook. She's written about this here:
>
> boyd, danah. 2012. ?White Flight in Networked Publics: How Race and Class
> Shaped American Teen Engagement with Myspace and Facebook.? Pp. 203-222 in
> Race After the Internet, edited by L. Nakamura and P.A. Chow-White. New
> York: Routledge.
>
> In short, she found that the language teens used to describe their
> migration mirrored the language of whites during what's traditionally been
> called "white flight" from major US cities.
>
>
> Chris Julien
> PhD Student (PSU), MA (UNCG)
> State College, PA, USA
> www.chrisjulien.com
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 4:49 PM Barett T. Christensen <
> bchristensen at bwf.com>
> wrote:
>
> > This is not formal research nor is it a response to trends, but it may be
> > interesting. Using the Ads Manager, here is the current number of teens
> > (13-18) on Facebook and Instagram and their distributions by zip code
> > values. You will see that 65% of teens on Facebook live in the bottom
> half
> > of zip codes in the United States, while 37% of teens live in the top
> half
> > of zip codes. You will also see that 67% of teens on Instagram live in
> the
> > bottom half of zip code values in the United States, while 33% of teens
> > live in the top half of zip codes.
> >
> > Facebook currently has a wealthier teen audience by count and percentage
> > of total teens.
> >
> > 1. There are approximately 8.8 million teens on Facebook.
> > a. 320K (or 4%) live in the top 5% of wealthy zip codes.
> > b. 660K (or 8%) live in the top 6-10% of wealthy zip codes.
> > c. 920K (or 11%) live in the top 11-25% of wealthy zip codes.
> > d. 1.2M (or 14%) live in the top 26-50% of wealthy zip codes.
> > e. That leaves 5.7 million teens (or 65%) on Facebook living in
> > the bottom half of zip codes in the United States.
> >
> > 2. There are approximately 7 million teens on Instagram.
> > a. 250K (or 4%) live in the top 5% of wealthy zip codes.
> > b. 520K (or 7%) live in the top 6-10% of wealthy zip codes.
> > c. 680K (or 10%) live in the top 11-25% of wealthy zip codes.
> > d. 840K (or 12%) live in the top 26-50% of wealthy zip codes.
> > e. That leaves 2.3 million teens (or 67%) on Instagram living in
> > the bottom half of zip codes in the United States.
> >
> >
> > Barett
> > Director, Marketing and Digital Services
> > Bentz Whaley Flessner
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of David Brake
> > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2018 3:03 PM
> > To: AoIR mailing list <Air-L at listserv.aoir.org>
> > Subject: [Air-L] Facebook's class divide - implications
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am writing a piece for The Conversation about the social implications
> of
> > the recent sharp decline in the use of Facebook in the US by wealthier
> > teens
> >
> https://qz.com/1355827/do-teens-use-facebook-it-depends-on-their-familys-income/
> ,
> > speculating on the social implications of this shift. I made some
> > conjectures about this but the editors wanted some empirical backup for
> > these if possible, so here are some of the issues I raise - I would be
> > interested if anyone could suggest good references that relate to any of
> > them!
> >
> > * Do we have any idea why wealthy American teens are leaving Facebook? It
> > surprised me since it was wealthier MySpace users who migrated to
> Facebook
> > in the first place.
> > * Do we have evidence that widespread Facebook use may have helped
> > facilitate inter-cultural or inter-class communication/understanding? I
> > speculate it might because even if FB tends to show you strong tie
> > information, you might still get glimpses of the lives and concerns of
> > people you knew whose lives have taken different paths. If the wealthy
> > leave FB they might lose some of that information and empathy?
> >
> > My second half is about the shift from a textual to a visual ?culture?
> > which a move away from FB towards Instagram and Snapchat might represent.
> >
> > * Do we have any quantitative evidence for this shift (eg shortening
> > length of text used in online communication?)
> > * Do we know anything about whether richer/more well-educated people are
> > more effective at getting their message across using social media video
> and
> > images than poorer? I would argue yes because they have the time and
> > resources to learn and employ editing techniques and use better hardware
> > and software to do so while poorer people might tend just to put out
> ?raw?
> > video. Visible minorities also may find their message sidelined because
> of
> > their visible lower ?status?. Whereas text is meant to be more of a
> status
> > leveller than f2f (though of course we know this is not entirely true).
> >
> > Pardon the rant. If there is no good scholarship on some of these points,
> > I will be making the point that more scholarship is needed which may help
> > some of you to get grants ;-)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > David
> >
> > --
> > Dr David Brake, Researcher and Educator http://davidbrake.org/, @drbrake
> > Author of "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media?
> > https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline <
> > https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2018 18:42:15 -0300
> From: Ricardo Rohm <ricardorohm at gmail.com>
> To: Dimitris Gouscos <gouscos at media.uoa.gr>,
> "air-l at listserv.aoir.org" <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: [Air-L] RES: Facebook's class divide - implications
> Message-ID: <5bad4eb5.1c69fb81.551eb.4a8a at mx.google.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Dear David,
>
> I totally agree with Dimitris.
> It is already time for people to wake up and become smarter. It has been
> already demonstrated that Face and some other social networks have got a
> little to do with mental health and human development in terms of purpose,
> ethics and welfare at large.
> Best regards
> Ricardo Rohm
> Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
>
> Enviado do Email para Windows 10
>
> De: Dimitris Gouscos
> Enviado:quinta-feira, 27 de setembro de 2018 17:41
> Para: air-l at listserv.aoir.org
> Assunto: Re: [Air-L] Facebook's class divide - implications
>
> dear David,
>
> I am watching this list for very nice issues and ideas that come along,
> and just saw your post
>
> without having readily at hand the references to back up my view, I
> recall it was George Bernard Shaw that had been arguing in his essays
> (maybe in What socialism is (Fabian tract 13), cf.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_works_by_George_Bernard_Shaw#Political_writings),
>
> that sun tanning became fashionable as an outspring of the industrial
> revolution, just in the same way thatin earlier timespale skin had
> become a sign of nobleness and beauty in outdoors-work based economies
>
> the point I'm trying to make, in fact, is that the answer to your
> question may exist in what you already mention yourself, that wealthier
> (teen) users will at some point be looking at migrating away from a
> network which has now lost (in their own perception of their own
> society) its elite/status-symbol character ...
>
> do you think this could be so? Just a thought ...
>
> regards,
>
> Dimitris
>
>
> ---
>
> Dr. Dimitris Gouscos
>
> media.uoa.gr/~gouscos <http://www.media.uoa.gr/%7Egouscos>
>
> Assistant Professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies,
> National and Kapodistrian University of Athens | media.uoa.gr
> <http://www.media.uoa.gr/>
>
> Faculty member, MSc Digital Communication Media and Interaction
> Environments | masters.ntlab.gr <https://masters.ntlab.gr/>
>
> Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Electronic Governance |
> inderscience.com/ijeg <http://www.inderscience.com/ijeg>
>
> postal address Sofokleous 1 & Aristidou str. GR-10559 Athens, Greece
>
> tel. ++30 210 3689421, ++30 6984 334993 (please prefer texting if possible)
>
> email gouscos at media.uoa.gr | skype dimitris.gouscos (please send me an
> email first)
>
>
> ===
>
> ???? 27/9/2018 11:03 ??, ? David Brake ??????:
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am writing a piece for The Conversation about the social implications
> of the recent sharp decline in the use of Facebook in the US by wealthier
> teens
> https://qz.com/1355827/do-teens-use-facebook-it-depends-on-their-familys-income/,
> speculating on the social implications of this shift. I made some
> conjectures about this but the editors wanted some empirical backup for
> these if possible, so here are some of the issues I raise - I would be
> interested if anyone could suggest good references that relate to any of
> them!
> >
> > * Do we have any idea why wealthy American teens are leaving Facebook?
> It surprised me since it was wealthier MySpace users who migrated to
> Facebook in the first place.
> > * Do we have evidence that widespread Facebook use may have helped
> facilitate inter-cultural or inter-class communication/understanding? I
> speculate it might because even if FB tends to show you strong tie
> information, you might still get glimpses of the lives and concerns of
> people you knew whose lives have taken different paths. If the wealthy
> leave FB they might lose some of that information and empathy?
> >
> > My second half is about the shift from a textual to a visual ?culture?
> which a move away from FB towards Instagram and Snapchat might represent.
> >
> > * Do we have any quantitative evidence for this shift (eg shortening
> length of text used in online communication?)
> > * Do we know anything about whether richer/more well-educated people are
> more effective at getting their message across using social media video and
> images than poorer? I would argue yes because they have the time and
> resources to learn and employ editing techniques and use better hardware
> and software to do so while poorer people might tend just to put out ?raw?
> video. Visible minorities also may find their message sidelined because of
> their visible lower ?status?. Whereas text is meant to be more of a status
> leveller than f2f (though of course we know this is not entirely true).
> >
> > Pardon the rant. If there is no good scholarship on some of these
> points, I will be making the point that more scholarship is needed which
> may help some of you to get grants ;-)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > David
> >
> > --
> > Dr David Brake, Researcher and Educator http://davidbrake.org/, @drbrake
> > Author of "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social Media?
> https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline <
> https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline>
> > _______________________________________________
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>
> Message: 7
> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 05:09:35 +0000
> From: Jannie M?ller Hartley <jath at ruc.dk>
> To: Chris Julien <juliencm22 at gmail.com>, "davidbrake at gmail.com"
> <davidbrake at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Air-L at listserv.aoir.org" <Air-L at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook's class divide - implications
> Message-ID: <9D9A9C3A-FB0D-421C-98F3-B5A03BC1A01A at ruc.dk>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Hello David and others,
>
> I have done qualitative research based on diaries with young people 15-18
> and found the same in Denmark. Although I was mainly interested in news
> consumption via social media and across platforms (and the article below
> reflects that), it was clear that it's no longer cool for young people with
> high cultural capital to use Facebook (and much of the evidence in the
> diaries and interviews show just that). They might still have an account
> and lurke, but they do not share, like or post. Theoretically, I call this
> digital distinction, and it can also be compared to when the same young
> people give up their smartphones and get a Nokia 5110.
>
> The article is here:
> https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1322
>
> @Valerie - I would also be interested in reading your work on the class
> divide, if you don't mind sharing.
>
> Best
>
> Jannie M?ller Hartley | Lektor, Ph.d. Journalist | Journalistik | IKH |
> Roskilde Universitet
> jath at ruc.dk
> Associate Professor, Ph.d. | Director of the Digital Media Lab (DeMiLab):
> digitalmedialab.ruc.dk <https://digitalmedialab.ruc.dk/ Department of
> Communication and Arts | Roskilde University
>
> 42.2.15 | Box 260 | 4000 Roskilde | Denmark Phone: (+45) 4674 37 53Email:
> jath at ruc.dk
>
> // Chapter in new book: The Future of Audiences (2018), Palgrave McMillan
> /'It?s Something Posh People Do?: Digital Distinction in Young People?s
> Cross-Media News Engagement <
> https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1322>,
> (2018) Media and Communication, A Matter of Trust- Plagiarism, fake sources
> and paradigm repair in the Danish news media <
> https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TCrJUP2qzEF4qc2mskIg/full> (2018)
> Journalism Studies. News Audiences and news habits <
> http://communication.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228613-e-845>,
> Oxford Encyclopedia of Journalism (2018)
> --
>
>
>
> ?D. 27/09/2018 23.25 skrev "Air-L p? vegne af Chris Julien" <
> air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org p? vegne af juliencm22 at gmail.com>:
>
> Hello David,
>
> Perhaps the move mirrors reasons found by danah boyd as she
> investigated
> teen flight from myspace to facebook. She's written about this here:
>
> boyd, danah. 2012. ?White Flight in Networked Publics: How Race and
> Class
> Shaped American Teen Engagement with Myspace and Facebook.? Pp.
> 203-222 in
> Race After the Internet, edited by L. Nakamura and P.A. Chow-White. New
> York: Routledge.
>
> In short, she found that the language teens used to describe their
> migration mirrored the language of whites during what's traditionally
> been
> called "white flight" from major US cities.
>
>
> Chris Julien
> PhD Student (PSU), MA (UNCG)
> State College, PA, USA
> www.chrisjulien.com
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 4:49 PM Barett T. Christensen <
> bchristensen at bwf.com>
> wrote:
>
> > This is not formal research nor is it a response to trends, but it
> may be
> > interesting. Using the Ads Manager, here is the current number of
> teens
> > (13-18) on Facebook and Instagram and their distributions by zip code
> > values. You will see that 65% of teens on Facebook live in the
> bottom half
> > of zip codes in the United States, while 37% of teens live in the
> top half
> > of zip codes. You will also see that 67% of teens on Instagram live
> in the
> > bottom half of zip code values in the United States, while 33% of
> teens
> > live in the top half of zip codes.
> >
> > Facebook currently has a wealthier teen audience by count and
> percentage
> > of total teens.
> >
> > 1. There are approximately 8.8 million teens on Facebook.
> > a. 320K (or 4%) live in the top 5% of wealthy zip codes.
> > b. 660K (or 8%) live in the top 6-10% of wealthy zip codes.
> > c. 920K (or 11%) live in the top 11-25% of wealthy zip codes.
> > d. 1.2M (or 14%) live in the top 26-50% of wealthy zip codes.
> > e. That leaves 5.7 million teens (or 65%) on Facebook living
> in
> > the bottom half of zip codes in the United States.
> >
> > 2. There are approximately 7 million teens on Instagram.
> > a. 250K (or 4%) live in the top 5% of wealthy zip codes.
> > b. 520K (or 7%) live in the top 6-10% of wealthy zip codes.
> > c. 680K (or 10%) live in the top 11-25% of wealthy zip codes.
> > d. 840K (or 12%) live in the top 26-50% of wealthy zip codes.
> > e. That leaves 2.3 million teens (or 67%) on Instagram
> living in
> > the bottom half of zip codes in the United States.
> >
> >
> > Barett
> > Director, Marketing and Digital Services
> > Bentz Whaley Flessner
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of David
> Brake
> > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2018 3:03 PM
> > To: AoIR mailing list <Air-L at listserv.aoir.org>
> > Subject: [Air-L] Facebook's class divide - implications
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am writing a piece for The Conversation about the social
> implications of
> > the recent sharp decline in the use of Facebook in the US by
> wealthier
> > teens
> >
> https://qz.com/1355827/do-teens-use-facebook-it-depends-on-their-familys-income/
> ,
> > speculating on the social implications of this shift. I made some
> > conjectures about this but the editors wanted some empirical backup
> for
> > these if possible, so here are some of the issues I raise - I would
> be
> > interested if anyone could suggest good references that relate to
> any of
> > them!
> >
> > * Do we have any idea why wealthy American teens are leaving
> Facebook? It
> > surprised me since it was wealthier MySpace users who migrated to
> Facebook
> > in the first place.
> > * Do we have evidence that widespread Facebook use may have helped
> > facilitate inter-cultural or inter-class
> communication/understanding? I
> > speculate it might because even if FB tends to show you strong tie
> > information, you might still get glimpses of the lives and concerns
> of
> > people you knew whose lives have taken different paths. If the
> wealthy
> > leave FB they might lose some of that information and empathy?
> >
> > My second half is about the shift from a textual to a visual
> ?culture?
> > which a move away from FB towards Instagram and Snapchat might
> represent.
> >
> > * Do we have any quantitative evidence for this shift (eg shortening
> > length of text used in online communication?)
> > * Do we know anything about whether richer/more well-educated people
> are
> > more effective at getting their message across using social media
> video and
> > images than poorer? I would argue yes because they have the time and
> > resources to learn and employ editing techniques and use better
> hardware
> > and software to do so while poorer people might tend just to put out
> ?raw?
> > video. Visible minorities also may find their message sidelined
> because of
> > their visible lower ?status?. Whereas text is meant to be more of a
> status
> > leveller than f2f (though of course we know this is not entirely
> true).
> >
> > Pardon the rant. If there is no good scholarship on some of these
> points,
> > I will be making the point that more scholarship is needed which may
> help
> > some of you to get grants ;-)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > David
> >
> > --
> > Dr David Brake, Researcher and Educator http://davidbrake.org/,
> @drbrake
> > Author of "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social
> Media?
> > https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline <
> > https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline>
> > _______________________________________________
> > The Air-L at listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the
> Association
> > of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or
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>
> Message: 8
> Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2018 05:51:50 +0000
> From: Jenny Davis <jennifer.davis at anu.edu.au>
> To: Jannie M?ller Hartley <jath at ruc.dk>, Chris Julien
> <juliencm22 at gmail.com>, "davidbrake at gmail.com" <
> davidbrake at gmail.com>
> Cc: "Air-L at listserv.aoir.org" <Air-L at listserv.aoir.org>
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook's class divide - implications
> Message-ID:
> <
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> >
>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>
> Hi David and All-
>
>
> Fantastic conversation and great resources. Just to throw a small wrench
> in the matter, research also shows that young people in disadvantaged
> circumstances struggle with Facebook because of its default context
> collapse and related amplification of social problems and violence. This
> seems antithetical to the wealthy drop-off trend and complicates the puzzle
> (see e.g. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444815625941)
>
> [
> http://journals.sagepub.com/na101/home/literatum/publisher/sage/journals/content/nmsa/2017/nmsa_19_6/nmsa_19_6/20170609/nmsa_19_6.cover.png
> ]<http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444815625941>
>
> The digital hood: Social media use among youth in ...<
> http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1461444815625941>
> journals.sagepub.com
> The digital hood: Social media use among youth in disadvantaged
> neighborhoods
>
>
> I think we all look forward to reading your piece!
>
> Best,
> Jenny
>
>
> Jenny L. Davis
>
> Lecturer, School of Sociology
>
> The Australian National University
>
> Co-Editor: Cyborgology<https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/> <
> https://twitter.com/Jenny_L_Davis>
>
> Twitter: @Jenny_L_Davis<https://twitter.com/Jenny_L_Davis>
>
> ________________________________
> From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> on behalf of Jannie M?ller
> Hartley <jath at ruc.dk>
> Sent: Friday, September 28, 2018 3:09:35 PM
> To: Chris Julien; davidbrake at gmail.com
> Cc: Air-L at listserv.aoir.org
> Subject: Re: [Air-L] Facebook's class divide - implications
>
> Hello David and others,
>
> I have done qualitative research based on diaries with young people 15-18
> and found the same in Denmark. Although I was mainly interested in news
> consumption via social media and across platforms (and the article below
> reflects that), it was clear that it's no longer cool for young people with
> high cultural capital to use Facebook (and much of the evidence in the
> diaries and interviews show just that). They might still have an account
> and lurke, but they do not share, like or post. Theoretically, I call this
> digital distinction, and it can also be compared to when the same young
> people give up their smartphones and get a Nokia 5110.
>
> The article is here:
> https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1322
>
> @Valerie - I would also be interested in reading your work on the class
> divide, if you don't mind sharing.
>
> Best
>
> Jannie M?ller Hartley | Lektor, Ph.d. Journalist | Journalistik | IKH |
> Roskilde Universitet
> jath at ruc.dk
> Associate Professor, Ph.d. | Director of the Digital Media Lab (DeMiLab):
> digitalmedialab.ruc.dk <https://digitalmedialab.ruc.dk/ Department of
> Communication and Arts | Roskilde University
>
> 42.2.15 | Box 260 | 4000 Roskilde | Denmark Phone: (+45) 4674 37 53Email:
> jath at ruc.dk
>
> // Chapter in new book: The Future of Audiences (2018), Palgrave McMillan
> /'It?s Something Posh People Do?: Digital Distinction in Young People?s
> Cross-Media News Engagement <
> https://www.cogitatiopress.com/mediaandcommunication/article/view/1322>,
> (2018) Media and Communication, A Matter of Trust- Plagiarism, fake sources
> and paradigm repair in the Danish news media <
> https://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/TCrJUP2qzEF4qc2mskIg/full> (2018)
> Journalism Studies. News Audiences and news habits <
> http://communication.oxfordre.com/view/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228613.001.0001/acrefore-9780190228613-e-845>,
> Oxford Encyclopedia of Journalism (2018)
> --
>
>
>
> ?D. 27/09/2018 23.25 skrev "Air-L p? vegne af Chris Julien" <
> air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org p? vegne af juliencm22 at gmail.com>:
>
> Hello David,
>
> Perhaps the move mirrors reasons found by danah boyd as she
> investigated
> teen flight from myspace to facebook. She's written about this here:
>
> boyd, danah. 2012. ?White Flight in Networked Publics: How Race and
> Class
> Shaped American Teen Engagement with Myspace and Facebook.? Pp.
> 203-222 in
> Race After the Internet, edited by L. Nakamura and P.A. Chow-White. New
> York: Routledge.
>
> In short, she found that the language teens used to describe their
> migration mirrored the language of whites during what's traditionally
> been
> called "white flight" from major US cities.
>
>
> Chris Julien
> PhD Student (PSU), MA (UNCG)
> State College, PA, USA
> www.chrisjulien.com<http://www.chrisjulien.com>
>
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 4:49 PM Barett T. Christensen <
> bchristensen at bwf.com>
> wrote:
>
> > This is not formal research nor is it a response to trends, but it
> may be
> > interesting. Using the Ads Manager, here is the current number of
> teens
> > (13-18) on Facebook and Instagram and their distributions by zip code
> > values. You will see that 65% of teens on Facebook live in the
> bottom half
> > of zip codes in the United States, while 37% of teens live in the
> top half
> > of zip codes. You will also see that 67% of teens on Instagram live
> in the
> > bottom half of zip code values in the United States, while 33% of
> teens
> > live in the top half of zip codes.
> >
> > Facebook currently has a wealthier teen audience by count and
> percentage
> > of total teens.
> >
> > 1. There are approximately 8.8 million teens on Facebook.
> > a. 320K (or 4%) live in the top 5% of wealthy zip codes.
> > b. 660K (or 8%) live in the top 6-10% of wealthy zip codes.
> > c. 920K (or 11%) live in the top 11-25% of wealthy zip codes.
> > d. 1.2M (or 14%) live in the top 26-50% of wealthy zip codes.
> > e. That leaves 5.7 million teens (or 65%) on Facebook living
> in
> > the bottom half of zip codes in the United States.
> >
> > 2. There are approximately 7 million teens on Instagram.
> > a. 250K (or 4%) live in the top 5% of wealthy zip codes.
> > b. 520K (or 7%) live in the top 6-10% of wealthy zip codes.
> > c. 680K (or 10%) live in the top 11-25% of wealthy zip codes.
> > d. 840K (or 12%) live in the top 26-50% of wealthy zip codes.
> > e. That leaves 2.3 million teens (or 67%) on Instagram
> living in
> > the bottom half of zip codes in the United States.
> >
> >
> > Barett
> > Director, Marketing and Digital Services
> > Bentz Whaley Flessner
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Air-L <air-l-bounces at listserv.aoir.org> On Behalf Of David
> Brake
> > Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2018 3:03 PM
> > To: AoIR mailing list <Air-L at listserv.aoir.org>
> > Subject: [Air-L] Facebook's class divide - implications
> >
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I am writing a piece for The Conversation about the social
> implications of
> > the recent sharp decline in the use of Facebook in the US by
> wealthier
> > teens
> >
> https://qz.com/1355827/do-teens-use-facebook-it-depends-on-their-familys-income/
> ,
> > speculating on the social implications of this shift. I made some
> > conjectures about this but the editors wanted some empirical backup
> for
> > these if possible, so here are some of the issues I raise - I would
> be
> > interested if anyone could suggest good references that relate to
> any of
> > them!
> >
> > * Do we have any idea why wealthy American teens are leaving
> Facebook? It
> > surprised me since it was wealthier MySpace users who migrated to
> Facebook
> > in the first place.
> > * Do we have evidence that widespread Facebook use may have helped
> > facilitate inter-cultural or inter-class
> communication/understanding? I
> > speculate it might because even if FB tends to show you strong tie
> > information, you might still get glimpses of the lives and concerns
> of
> > people you knew whose lives have taken different paths. If the
> wealthy
> > leave FB they might lose some of that information and empathy?
> >
> > My second half is about the shift from a textual to a visual
> ?culture?
> > which a move away from FB towards Instagram and Snapchat might
> represent.
> >
> > * Do we have any quantitative evidence for this shift (eg shortening
> > length of text used in online communication?)
> > * Do we know anything about whether richer/more well-educated people
> are
> > more effective at getting their message across using social media
> video and
> > images than poorer? I would argue yes because they have the time and
> > resources to learn and employ editing techniques and use better
> hardware
> > and software to do so while poorer people might tend just to put out
> ?raw?
> > video. Visible minorities also may find their message sidelined
> because of
> > their visible lower ?status?. Whereas text is meant to be more of a
> status
> > leveller than f2f (though of course we know this is not entirely
> true).
> >
> > Pardon the rant. If there is no good scholarship on some of these
> points,
> > I will be making the point that more scholarship is needed which may
> help
> > some of you to get grants ;-)
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > David
> >
> > --
> > Dr David Brake, Researcher and Educator http://davidbrake.org/,
> @drbrake
> > Author of "Sharing Our Lives Online: Risks and Exposure in Social
> Media?
> > https://www.facebook.com/sharingourlivesonline <
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