Abandon your MySpace account for Facebook? You might just be a racist.
At a keynote speech during New York’s Democracy forum at Lincoln Center, Danah Boyd spoke of the racial disparity and possible reasons for mass abandonment of MySpace for the “more cultured” and “less cheesy” social networking site Facebook. Boyd, a social media researcher for Microsoft and fellow of the Harvard University Berkman Center for Internet and Society, stated:
Boyd also observed that:
Referring to MySpace as the “ghetto of the digital landscape,” Boyd indicated that MySpace users are more likely to be “brown or black” and espouse a different set of ideals in conflict with those espoused by the teens she surveyed over four years. She said that patterns in migration across social networking sites ec...
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As 2009 comes to a close, the Lens of Truth stops and takes a look back at the games that got us through the year. Those of you who've been there from the beginning can vouch for our growth. Some things we did well, sometimes our voice cracked from "website puberty", but rest assured, we came out with more hair on our chest.
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Happy New Year everyone!!
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It's already 2010 in a few places and just 40mins to go in Sydney. :-) - Kol Tregaskes
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What are you look forward to in 2010, any big plans, any predictions, any hopes or ideals? #2010
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Get ready for one of those rare celestial phenomenons you won’t want to miss. Not only will the earth be blessed with a full moon to accompany tonight’s New Year’s Eve celebrations, but it will be a Blue Moon — the second full moon in a single month. The first full moon of this month occurred on December 2, and the second will fall tonight on the cusp of the new year.
According to NASA , the la...