{"id":32,"date":"2012-01-23T11:37:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-23T19:37:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/relevantchatter\/?p=32"},"modified":"2012-01-23T13:12:47","modified_gmt":"2012-01-23T21:12:47","slug":"race-social-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.scu.edu\/relevantchatter\/2012\/01\/23\/race-social-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Social Networks as a Map of Face-to-Face Public Networking: The Insights of Danah Boyd"},"content":{"rendered":"

Danah Boyd has an impressive background in terms of the places she has worked and the amount of research she has been able to put out.\u00a0 Her blog and publications can be found at her site http:\/\/www.danah.org\/ .\u00a0 Recently, I read her article\u00a0White Flight in Networked Publics? How Race and Class Shaped American Teen Engagement with MySpace and Facebook<\/em><\/a><\/em>.\u00a0 Having grown up in suburbia\/urban Los Angeles,\u00a0 the article struck true on a number of issues. Danah explains the exodus from MySpace to Facebook, and the race\/class issues implied by the migration.\u00a0\u00a0 She displays and describes how MySpace had first been popular for all teens, and why the first youth began to leave the site and emigrate to Facebook.\u00a0 What these teens left behind was a social map of the segregation that was in plain-sight at their high schools.\u00a0 I remember my personal high school experience.\u00a0 Mexicans would kick it at the M (for Mexican) wing. \u00a0 The White’s would kick it on “the hill”.\u00a0 The African-American’s at the gym.\u00a0 The Asians in the own wing etc. etc.\u00a0 Being Latino, I was one of the last to migrate to Facebook, and only migrated to the site because one of my mentors had urged me to claiming that MySpace was for “cholos and cholas”.\u00a0 I remember my White friends telling me about Facebook, but never really put any thought into leaving MySpace until an authority figure in my life asked me to.\u00a0 Today I have neither a Facebook or a MySpace, and my life has been much better because I can now focus on my studies (Facebook was my preferred tool of procrastination). However, after reading this article, I also thought about my current University experience and wondered if it has felt racially segregated.\u00a0 Yes and no.\u00a0 However, for the truth, all one has to do is to walk into Benson (Cafeteria) and take into account “who kicks-it with who”, or look at Facebook and see who talks to who.\u00a0 Peers, what do you think about our campus?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Danah Boyd has an impressive background in terms of the places she has worked and the amount of research she has been able to put out.\u00a0 Her blog and publications can be found at her site http:\/\/www.danah.org\/ .\u00a0 Recently, I …<\/p>\n

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