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
[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.]
My message:
Hello!
Anyone study Vernacular Creativity and/or Cultural Citizenship? I need to
find some texts and haven't studied in this area before, and alas, currently
I am in-between Universities and do not have library access to academic
journals! (The horror, the horror)
I am just about to get stuck into my PhD - on yet an entirely different
topic, and other than that, working in the wonders of the IT world (NB, you
may have noticed a recent Irish ad. campaign). Mind is everywhere
currently!
However, the reason I am so interested in vernacular creativity and cultural
citizenship is due to the phenomenon of Frank Warren's "Postsecret" (found
here if you are not yet aware->http://postsecret.blogspot.com/) I'm looking
at the transformation of the Postcard to the "Postsecret". The Postcard
being a rather mundane and now outdated method of communication and cultural
creativity, which in my mind, has undergone with the help of Warren's idea,
a transformation to the "Postsecret" - individually created, produced and
published.
Any thoughts or comments? This is the second paper which I plan to present
at AOIR, and with help and advice, hopefully something which many others
will find interesting.
-H
THANKYOU!
--
Hilary Wheaton BA (Hons)
UWA/Curtin/iiNet
-http://proceedbydebate.blogspot.com/
-http://hilarywheaton.blogspot.com/
The aggregators now in existence not only don't really work that well, but
in many ways miss the point entirely. It seems to me that the steps
involved in building the next generation of social networking tools are
threefold: 1) finding fun ways to get users interested in generating lots of
information that reflect valid/reliable social concepts and is stored using
standardized data conventions 2) develop methods for users to protect,
deploy, and control access to the information they generate in creative
ways 3) leverage the power this immense data set to encourage the building
of web applications that utilize this data in complex, ethical, and somewhat
transparent ways. I've been writing an
essay<http://www.alexevasion.com/node/146>precisely on this topic and
have posted it to the part of my blog where
where I grapple with similar ideas related to my identity game project, "The
Educated Guess" <http://www.alexevasion.com/node/137>.
--
ALEX GOLDMAN
<http://www.couchsurfing.com/alexevasion> www.alexevasion.com
<http://www.darkestdays.org>
Hello,
I wonder if we would see a sort of a social network aggregator
developed in the near future. A tool to integrate all our networks..
Today, we can aggregate all the news, blogs, etc. we need using an RSS
reader. We can also aggregate all the content that we create on
different platforms in one place - using jaiku.com, so that it is
easier for others to follow everything we do online.
Would that be possible to somehow integrate all our online social
networks? Is there a need for it?
M.
On 6/20/07, elw(a)stderr.org <elw(a)stderr.org> wrote:
>
> > Now for the scholarly types, this community seems to be a bit more
> > fragmented. I know many of these people who have accounts on myspace and
> > even friendster, in addition to Facebook. I personally have an inactive
> > friendster account that never ceases to amaze me when I get notices that
> > someone actually was there. These are slowly dribbling off.
>
> there are at least a few people from aoir that i've found on:
>
> tribe
> friendster
> facebook
> myspace
> linkedin
> ryze
> orkut
> [a site i've forgotten the name of...]
>
> and probably a significant number of other sites that i don't know about.
>
> I have friends from several different demographics on each of them.
>
> When folks try to compress a site into "teens go here" and "latinos mostly
> go here", they generally miss out on the fact that these sites are HUGE -
> so huge that there is a broad spectrum of behavior present on ALL of them.
> Surface-level characterizations are great, yes, but there's a lot of
> nuance in people's behaviors and networking patterns - that is easily
> missed.
>
> --elijah
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Dear all,
I am sorry to tell you very sad news about an italian Professor who was one of the best and original italian researchers on Internet subjects: Antonio Roversi.
He died last June 15th.
Prof. Roversi worked for a long time in Bologna University (http://www2.scedu.unibo.it/roversi/) and was also one of the first italians to join aoir.
Best regards
antonella mascio
