MySpace now a “digital ghetto”
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MySpace now a “digital ghetto”
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Re: MySpace now a “digital ghetto”
#2Utter nonsense. Overlaying a racist agenda onto the shift from Myspace to Facebook is ridiculous. Neither have any barier to entry.
Abandoning Yahoo! for Google might also shadow the population changes the author alludes to, but does that make google users racist? No.
EDIT: the new original link provides more reasoned context - but even then, the data appears very, very weak [~4 anecdotal data points, all 17-year-olds].
If the point were valid it would be troubling, but I'm not convinced on the evidence provided.
Re: MySpace now a “digital ghetto”
#3I'm old enough to remember white flight. To make an analogy with MySpace migration to Facebook is absurd.
Re: MySpace now a “digital ghetto”
#4original paper is here: http://www.danah.org/papers/talks/PDF2009.html
Re: MySpace now a “digital ghetto”
#5Is the article attributing a racist agenda? Or is it talking about an empirical reality. If the average facebook user is indeed more educated than the average myspace user, it's certainly worth talking about. Even if it is not the case, it certainly seems to be the general perception--as a friend of mine recently said: "myspace if for pedophiles and dropouts, facebook is for everybody else."
Re: MySpace now a “digital ghetto”
#6Utter nonsense. Overlaying a racist agenda onto the shift from Myspace to Facebook is ridiculous. Neither have any barier to entry. Abandoning Yahoo! for Google might also shadow the population changes the author alludes to, but does that make google users racist? No. EDIT: the new original link provides more reasoned context - but even then, the data appears very, very weak [~4 anecdotal data points, all 17-year-old…
i think you misunderstand homophilia.
ok, voted down, maybe for not explaining. alli can bring myself to do is say: the point is not barrier to entry but self-segregation.
starting a comment with "Utter nonsense. is rediculous" is entertaining but poor form (in my books). i think there are real issues here that are being belittled simply because sociology and media studies do not fall into the IT/web realm you are comfortable with.
i regret having risen to the bait to begin with. this article, ironcially, cannot be seriously considered in this community.
Re: MySpace now a “digital ghetto”
#7I'm with the initial commenter's: this is crap.
What I find ironic and laughable at the same time is the article doesn't mention usability of the software deployed by the two sites and how that might actually factor in. Assuming it has a racial connotation is absurd. IMO, Facebook has a better interface, making it easier on the eyes, makes use of less ads, etc. etc. -- any part of that racial? I'd like to answer by using more derogatory words in this space because the assumption by this author is simply ignorant, but then I'd be lowering myself to this author's level.
Re: MySpace now a “digital ghetto”
#8OR it's just the new geocities. This article doesn't even provide numbers - just hunches and hearsay. What a crock.
Re: MySpace now a “digital ghetto”
#9I'm old enough to remember white flight. To make an analogy with MySpace migration to Facebook is absurd.
i agree that the "white flight" analogy is a bit much. that reminds me, there are some good comments here:
http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/06/30/pdf_tal...
Re: MySpace now a “digital ghetto”
#10That's an argument that's in a way true, but it's also a non-sequitir comparison: in order to live in a middle class suburb (or especially a middle/upper class section of an urban area, e.g. Pacific Heights in San Francisco) there's a very high monetary barrier to entry. There's no monetary barrier to entry for Facebook (especially since it's no longer just for college students-- which may have been the seedling of the current phenomenon).