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14 Jul 09

McKinsey: What Matters: Talentopolis

  • Today a highly significant demographic realignment is at work: the mass relocation of highly skilled, highly educated, and highly paid people to a relatively small number of metropolitan regions, and a corresponding exodus of traditional lower- and middle-class people from those same places. Such geographic sorting of people by economic potential, on this scale, is unprecedented. I call it simply the means migration.
  • The means migration can be seen most clearly in the increasing geographic concentration of college graduates. According to research by Harvard University’s Edward Glaeser and the University of Chicago’s Christopher Berry, in 1970 human capital was distributed relatively evenly across the United States.
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10 Jul 09

Does Social Networking Breed Social Division? - Gadgetwise Blog - NYTimes.com

  • Ms. Hargittai hasn’t published the full findings of her February-April 2009 survey of 1,115 students yet, but a table of data on her blog paints the picture. Hispanics are still the most likely to use MySpace (58%). Whites and blacks have diverged, with 30% of whites and 51% of blacks using it. And Asians, already the group least likely to be on MySpace, grew much scarcer (16%). Students from less-educated families were still more likely to use MySpace, while those from more-educated families were more likely to use Facebook.
  • So is this white flight? Yes, but it’s not quite so simple, she says. Everyone is fleeing MySpace, and whites and Asians are fleeing in larger numbers.
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01 Jul 09

"The Not-So-Hidden Politics of Class Online"

  • For decades, we've assumed that inequality in relation to technology has everything to do with "access" and that if we fix the access problem, all will be fine. This is the grand narrative of concepts like the "digital divide." Yet, increasingly, we're seeing people with similar levels of access engage in fundamentally different ways. And we're seeing a social media landscape where participation "choice" leads to a digital reproduction of social divisions.
  • As is the case in many situations, teenagers are a darn good indicator of broader trends. I'm an ethnographer. For the last four years, I've been traveling the United States, talking to American teenagers about their use of social media. During the 2006-2007 school year, I started noticing a trend. In each school, in each part of the country, there were teens who opted for MySpace and teens who opted for Facebook. (There were also plenty of teens who used both.) At the beginning of the school year, teens were asking "Are you on MySpace? Yes or No?" At the end of the school year, the question had transformed to "MySpace or Facebook?"
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05 Nov 08

Wealth gap creating a social time bomb | World news | The Guardian

Growing inequality in US cities could lead to widespread social unrest and increased mortality, says a new United Nations report on the urban environment.
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But the report also identified what it believes is the emergence of a new urban trend, with many

www.guardian.co.uk/...galitarian-cities-urban-growth - Preview

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