I wasn't surprised by most of their findings, but one of them did make me raise my eyebrows: Teens from lower-income are more likely to blog. Because of how Pew collects data, they cannot answer the question "why?" when they find such correlations, but I figured that my qualitative data might provide some insight and so I went back through my data. When asked about blogging, most of my MySpace-dominant users would immediately talk about the blogs that they kept on MySpace while my Facebook-dominant teens would talk about how Xanga was "so middle school" and that "everyone stopped" because "it just felt really weird writing about my day to people that I didn't even care about." And then it clicked. As I pointed out last summer and Eszter saw in her survey, the MySpace/Facebook split is correlated with socio-economic status. Because MySpace supports blogging and Facebook does not and because many of the teens who were once on Xanga are now using one of the SNSs, it makes sense that teens from lower-income households are more likely to blog now. They are blogging on MySpace. Now, that outta be interesting when these kids hit college where blogging is used as an educational tool.
apophenia: "Information Access in a Networked World"
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more fromwww.zephoria.org
apophenia: Pew on teen social media practices (with interesting bits on class)
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more fromwww.zephoria.org
Whose Space? Differences Among Users and Non-Users of Social Network Sites
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more fromjcmc.indiana.edu
Old media hits the skids as new models roil market- Crain's New York Business.com
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more fromwww.crainsnewyork.com
Computer Networks As Social Networks
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more fromwww.jstor.org.er.lib.ksu.edu
IT Conversations: Yochai Benkler
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more fromitc.conversationsnetwork.org
How Your Creepy Ex-Co-Workers Will Kill Facebook -- Facebook -- InformationWeek
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Download PDFs of the book - WikiNotes
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more fromwww.benkler.org
Network Structure and the Kinship Perspective
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more fromwww.jstor.org.er.lib.ksu.edu
Interconnectedness and the duration of connections in several small networks
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more fromwww.jstor.org.er.lib.ksu.edu
Social network - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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more fromen.wikipedia.org
Network Forms of Organization
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more fromwww.jstor.org.er.lib.ksu.edu
Network Analysis: A Reappraisal
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more fromwww.jstor.org.er.lib.ksu.edu
Social Networks and Economic Sociology: A Proposed Research Agenda For a More Complete Social Science
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Rhizome (philosophy) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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more fromen.wikipedia.org
Quintura
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