Re: [silk] American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace

2007-06-26 Thread Raul Siddhartha
http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html Considering the interest in anthropology on silk, I'm surprised this hasn't been posted here already. Interesting read... thanks :-) [ A couple of her essays were included in Joel Spolsky's Best of Software Writing I compilation... ]

Re: [silk] American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace

2007-06-26 Thread Srini Ramakrishnan
On 6/26/07, Ramakrishnan Sundaram [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html I kinda made a similar point (with what is known in Indian parlance as a lot of masala :-)) on my blog about a year ago. Of course,

Re: [silk] American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace

2007-06-26 Thread Ramakrishnan Sundaram
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Srini Ramakrishnan said the following on 26/06/2007 12:10: I kinda made a similar point (with what is known in Indian parlance as a lot of masala :-)) on my blog about a year ago. Of course, the piece is not empirically backed, it's a blog. No,

Re: [silk] American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace

2007-06-26 Thread shiv sastry
On Tuesday 26 Jun 2007 1:01 pm, Ramakrishnan Sundaram wrote: http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html The article says: when orkut grew popular in India, the caste system was formalized within the system by the users. Could someone explain please? I have never entered the

Re: [silk] American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace

2007-06-26 Thread Madhu M Kurup
Oh no Udhay: -- [1] for those silklisters who've not heard of Eric Raymond yet, I will pull you down to our level by posting the URL: http://www.catb.org/~esr/writings/cathedral-bazaar/ -- And I had to then inevitably do the what-is-Eric-upto, to land on this: From: