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Subject: [Working-Class] Class and social networking
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 15:39:12 -0400
From: Sherry Linkon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Organization: Youngstown State University
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As I was searching the web, looking for examples of new media that
addresses working-class issues, I came upon this piece, a study of class
differences between Facebook and my Space. This blog posting generated
heated discussion and a follow-up piece by the author, Danah Boyd (she's
a grad student, using ethnographic methods to study social networking).
Most of the response to her piece came from people who are interested in
new media and social networks, not in working-class studies. I thought
folks on this list might be interested, too, and that we might offer
Danah some responses from our perspective. So I'm copying her on this
message, and I invite you to take a look and think about the patterns
she's noticing.
Here's the link to her blog, the responses, and her responses:
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2007/06/24/viewing_america.html
That said, if anyone has found any interesting cases of new media
projects that focus on working-class culture (I'm not so interested in
politics and policy as I am with lived experience, stories, images),
please let me know. I'm trying to create a list.
thanks--
Sherry
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