The shaky sociology of social networks - Valleywag Comments

The shaky sociology of social networks

dubdub — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 09:28:06 PDT

@Rockwell: forgiven! I can't even spell "Paul Fussell" correctly...

dubdub

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superba — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 06:41:23 PDT

No teenager would tell this self-infatuated dipwad a single true syllable.

superba

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Rockwell — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 23:04:00 PDT

"My research focuses on how people negotiate a presentation of self to unknown audiences in mediated contexts."

I'm sorry about saying that I admired her a little bit.

Rockwell

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dubdub — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 19:05:53 PDT

Stanford creates Yahoo and Google, Berkeley creates this. Easy Cal alums, as a Berkeley PhD, I hate being right about this :-)

Paul Fussel would have expressed the main point with fewer words and more wit!

dubdub

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Barce — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 17:09:25 PDT

I think you guys needed to read the article a bit more carefully. Danah Boyd was not providing a "study" She states in her article that she is acutely aware of the lack of a scientific study or "numbers" to back up her case, but that she definitely had to say something. She also noted lacking a language for what she had to say. Yeah, that makes her a mystic which is something you clearly could've made fun of.

I know you folks at Valleywag are anti-subtlety (and that's why I love you so much), but your article comes across as if you did not read Danah's article at all. Valleywag, bad dog! No bone!

Barce

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Rockwell — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 16:34:12 PDT

You have to admire her a little bit, turning regurgitated, hyper-obvious, inane talking points into a PhD.

"I want to take a moment to make a meta point here. I have been traipsing through the country talking to teens and I've been seeing this transition for the past 6-9 months but I'm having a hard time putting into words. Americans aren't so good at talking about class and I'm definitely feeling that discomfort. It's sticky, it's uncomfortable, and to top it off, we don't have the language for marking class in a meaningful way. So this piece is intentionally descriptive, but in being so, it's also hugely problematic. I don't have the language to get at what I want to say, but I decided it needed to be said anyhow. I wish I could just put numbers in front of it all and be done with it, but instead, I'm going to face the stickiness and see if I can get my thoughts across. Hopefully it works."

~BARF~

Rockwell

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doomslayer — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:11:18 PDT

She writes her name in all lowercase and makes "meta-points." Ugh.

doomslayer

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oiseau — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:09:11 PDT

Guys check out these guys from stanford www.glicis.com. Apparently they have built what they claim to be the first web3.0 search engine built around the word exchange markets. There is no typo, it is Word Exchange Markets --online marketplaces where you will make money simply by buying and selling words. Interesting stuff.

oiseau