The functional act of constructing a tweet or a status update is very similar. Produce text in roughly 140 characters or less inside a single line text box and click a button. Voila! Even the stream based ways in which the text gets consumed look awfully similar. Yet, the more I talk with people eng ...
In the last couple of years, Facebook has eclipsed MySpace as the world’s most popular social networking site. Facebook now has 95 million active users, compared with only about 65 million on MySpace. What’s more interesting than these numbers is the way that users of the sites appear to break down ...
One of the sharpest sociological observers of social media on the block, danah boyd, has written a cracker of a post at apophenia pointing out that people actually tend to use Facebook status updates and Twitter for different purposes, and that the social context of each is quite distinct. It’s refr ...
Ce qui fascine chez les A-Listers, ces bloggers incontournables de la blogosphère anglophone : le caractère multiple de leurs compétences et le fait qu’il s’agit de personnalités qui, au delà de la réflexion, sont en permanence dans l’action. La richesse de leur parcours improbable leur permet d’avo ...
A fascinating read of a presentation given by Danah Boyd at the Personal Democracy Forum. It is a discussion of the ways in which technology is NOT the great equalizer, and that inequality in relation to technology is not just about “access”. An excerpt: For decades, we’ve assumed that inequality in ...
by nathan jurgenson There has been recent news coverage on social class and social networking site usage. CNN asked “ Does your social class determine your online social network?” “Is there a class divide online? Research suggests yes. A recent study by market research firm Nielsen Claritas found th ...
by nathan jurgenson There has been recent news coverage on social class and social networking site usage. CNN asked “ Does your social class determine your online social network?” “Is there a class divide online? Research suggests yes. A recent study by market research firm Nielsen Claritas found th ...
Hier, j’ai passé l’avant-midi au colloque du CEFRIO sur la Génération C. Je dois admettre que j’étais dans l’expectative de l’étude réalisée par le CEFRIO sur la consommation Internet des jeunes de 12 à 24 ans. Un setup intéressant Le CEFRIO avait un tableau interactif, deux projecteurs qui dupliqua ...
Interesting story on NPR this morning about the social anthroplogy behind the Facebook /MySpace divide. Short and anecdotal, its main point was that Facebook attracts young/white/self-styled sophisticates, while MySpace is home to Hispanics and creative types (artists and musicians) — or in the vagu ...
I am deeply grateful for all that was accomplished by second wave feminism. I love living in a world in which my job opportunities are not constrained because of what's between my legs. That said, I also struggle with the externalities of the accomplishments in the 1970s. This week, I found myself t ...
