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
Interesting research on the dynamics of online and offline social networks. Seems like our close connections undergo some pruning as time passes.
You may have more Facebook friends as the years go by, but when it comes to your close friends, you lose about half and replace them with new ones after about seven years, new [...]
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Tagged: anthropology, context, social networking, sociology
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- June 22, 2009 – 2:50 pm
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- By Adam