Archive for the ‘Youth’ Category
Friday, March 5th, 2010
I like the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Their surveys are reliable and well-constructed, and they've collected tons of publicly available data over the past 10 years.
Their public relations, though, doesn't approach the quality of their methods. Exhibit A: thorough takedowns of last month's "just-this-side-of-moral-crusading...soft ball pitch to those ...
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Monday, November 2nd, 2009
Susan Engel, psychologist and educational administrator, has her take on the cesspool of American education in yesterday's NYT:
If we really want good schools, we need to create a critical mass of great teachers. And if we want smart, passionate people to become these great educators, we have to attract them ...
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Thursday, September 3rd, 2009
The Harvard Business Review recently published the above map in an article attempting to locate MySpace's centers of activity. The colors represent relative rates of use: red states have 20% or more MySpace logins than we'd expect from their populations of Internet users, and orange states have 10-20% more. Dark ...
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Tuesday, July 7th, 2009
ReadWriteWeb, via iStrategyLabs:
How fickle are kids these days? Just when all the grown ups started figuring out Facebook, college and high school users have declined in absolute number by 20% and 15% respectively in a mere six months, according to estimates Facebook provides to advertisers that were archived for tracking ...
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Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Teens and Texting (New York Times, 5/26/09)
Step 1: Select an act, norm, or condition to become stigmatized. The group or subculture primarily associated with this topic should ideally have little to no political power, and already be associated with other deviant behaviors (e.g., teenagers).
Step 2: Write a title stating the ...
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Wednesday, May 6th, 2009
My thesis, Learning to Like Facebook? Effects of Cultural and Educational Capital on the Use of Social Network Sites in a Population of University Students, is now available for download.
Abstract: This study explores the reasons why university students prefer to join or participate frequently in one social network website (SNS) ...
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Wednesday, April 1st, 2009
David Gibson at the Complexity and Social Networks Blog hypothesizes about Facebook and (anti) social capital:
I predict that we will eventually want to add something that I am tempted to call anti-social capital, which is a snarky (and imprecise) term for the absence of ties of a certain type, namely ...
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Saturday, February 14th, 2009
MySpace: 90,000 Sex Offenders Removed from Site
When I think of the attitudinal outlook driving moral panics, I think of my experience working as a technology assistant at a one-to-one laptop high school at the height of the MySpace/Facebook sexual predator panic from 2004-2006.
The school organized a series of informational sessions ...
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Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
This uproar and boycott over the new Facebook is pretty interesting in the context of my thesis.
One of the major differences between Facebook and MySpace is its design, layout, and overall aesthetic. As danah boyd colorfully notes, MySpace is ridden with "flashy...Las Vegas imagery," while Facebook is akin to a ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
I know. Ethnographies are hard. And I don’t mean to diminish any of the dozens of provocative behaviors and insights C.J. Pascoe presents in Dude, You’re A Fag, indisputably the best book I’ve read so far this summer. But I have to admit, because of some of her methodological choices, ...
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