::fibreculture:: Facebook group

[Danny Butt]

Interesting to me for lots of reasons is boyd's essay on the class  
distinctions between Facebook and Myspace (I never know exactly how  
to capitalise the dotcom brands properly and I work in this field:  
FaceBook? myspAce?)

http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html

Here's a sample:

> "The goodie two shoes, jocks, athletes, or other "good" kids are  
> now going to Facebook. These kids tend to come from families who  
> emphasize education and going to college. They are part of what  
> we'd call hegemonic society. They are primarily white, but not  
> exclusively. They are in honors classes, looking forward to the  
> prom, and live in a world dictated by after school activities.
>
> MySpace is still home for Latino/Hispanic teens, immigrant teens,  
> "burnouts," "alternative kids," "art fags," punks, emos, goths,  
> gangstas, queer kids, and other kids who didn't play into the  
> dominant high school popularity paradigm. These are kids whose  
> parents didn't go to college, who are expected to get a job when  
> they finish high school. These are the teens who plan to go into  
> the military immediately after schools. Teens who are really into  
> music or in a band are also on MySpace. MySpace has most of the  
> kids who are socially ostracized at school because they are geeks,  
> freaks, or queers."

Also worth checking is the level of methodological heat she received  
for writing this essay.

None of which is to say FB is a bad place for FC, but it may say  
something about the "us" of FC that we are having this conversation  
about Facebook in a way that we weren't about MySpace... and what we  
might be able to do to affect the context that is suggested by boyd's  
comments (remembering with fondness white Australia's long history of  
sardonic critiques of anyone too up themselves).

Regards,

Danny

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http://www.dannybutt.net


On 9/08/2007, at 4:55 PM, Lisa Gye wrote:

> Hi Tom
>
> perhaps you might be interested in Danah Boyd and Nicole Ellison's
> draft introduction to their forthcoming issue of the Journal of  
> Computer
> Mediated Communications which is focussing on social network sites? It
> provides an excellent overview of what people are doing with these
> platforms now -
> see http://www.danah.org/papers/worksinprogress/SNSHistory.html
>
> I guess I'm interested not so much in what people are doing but what
> they might be able to do in the future. What are the limits and
> possibilities of such systems? As people interested in researching
> network culture,  it makes sense to me to engage with these platforms,
> IMHO.
>
> Cheers, Lisa
>
>
>
> Lisa Gye
> Lecturer in Media and Communications
> Swinburne University of Technology
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