danah boyd tweeted an unedited version of her talk given at the Personal Democracy Forum Conference (#pdf09) entitled “The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online” and I must say, it’s absolutely fabulous. Though her ideas might be controversial, she touches on an important reality I think many tech evangelists are scared to recognize; that class divisions [...]
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Tagged: class, danah boyd, facebook, myspace, politics, race, social networking, society, stratification, technology
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- June 30, 2009 – 12:56 pm
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- By Adam
An interesting article was brought to my attention via Twitter this afternoon. Melanie McBride tweeted an article written last December that presents the complex issue of self celebration on the web through a particularly unsettling case of a Facebook group named 30 Reasons Girls Should Call It A Night where thousands of posted pictures depict [...]
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Tagged: anthropology, facebook, identity, privacy, self, web
- Published:
- July 8, 2008 – 10:50 pm
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- By Adam