Friday, August 17, 2007
Social Networking and Social Class
Danae Boyd recently had a piece on "On the Media" about the significant differences in the social roots of My Space and Facebook, musing about whether these distinctions are being deepened. She's a researcher at Harvard's Center on Internet and Society who shares a lot of her work on her Apophenia blog. Check it out...
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Quick question Jeff, where can I find the teacher blogs again. My brain is getting fuzzy and I don't remember where I went during the summer to post.
Thanks -Shilow
Shilow, I put copies of the lists of suggested blogs in the "Blog Inspirations" folder inside RESOURCES on our CTools site.
I'm glad that you posted this piece. I've been fascinated by social networking for a while now, (partly because it has naturally become a large part of my life as a college student,) and this article took an interesting perspective that I hadn't thought about. I've been reading a bit of Dewey lately, and thinking about his idea of communication's impacts on the creation of multiple publics. I think that this is a prime example of how new communications create new publics. I believe Dewey saw such mass media as hindering the effectiveness of our public sphere, and thus our democratic nation. What I wonder is, is there anything that future teachers can do to counteract this effect? It's an interesting idea - our over connection is really causing a disconnection.
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