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American Class Divisions Through Facebook and MySpace

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the something-to-think-about dept.

Jamie found this paper earlier about American Class Divisions and Facebook and MySpace. The paper talks about the history of the two sites, what groups tend to use what site. They also talk about what proponents of each site think of the other. It's actually an interesting read and worth your time.

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  1. Re:Serious Scientific Article? by ubernostrum · · Score: 5, Informative

    In a serious scientific discussion, yes.

    To be fair, I saw this earlier this morning when danah (the author) first linked it off her blog (which I read); the announcement there was along the lines of "here's this thing I've been looking into, I don't have anything formal or rigorous yet but I wanted to throw out some thoughts on it real quick", not "this is a serious, finalized paper on the topic".

    Her actual (formally) published work is, as one would expect, of much higher quality.