[Air-L] RES: Facebook's class divide - implications

[Ricardo Rohm]

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

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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


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Στις 27/9/2018 11:03 μμ, ο David Brake έγραψε:
> 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
>
> --
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> 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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