Nicolas Hamatake, David Lifson and Saket Navlakha prepared a paper for a graduate level class that deals heavily with race. The paper is entitled: The Facebook: Analysis of a Cornell Community Social Network. The paper can be downloaded here: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/nh39/papers/cs685.pdf The authors acknowledge the methodological shortcomings of the study, and it has not been peer-reviewed. And also, its not about Myspace. That said, it should be interested to a few of us who haven't come across the paper yet. -Fred On Sat, 25 Mar 2006, danah boyd wrote:
I know of none but would be very interested in this. I am paying attention to the (lack of) diversity in youth networks on these sites. For example, even in schools that are racially mixed, the profiles people connect to on MySpace are very homogeneous.
On Mar 24, 2006, at 7:36 PM, Greg Wise wrote:
Hi folks, Just following up on the myspace thread that bounced around here last month: anyone know of any work regarding myspace and race? In particular representation, self-presentation, etc. of race on myspace (or similar sites). The article in the NYT a few weeks ago on online self-portraits got me thinking about identity performance and negotiation on such sites.
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