It's Live! New JCMC on Social Network Sites (danah boyd)- November 13, 2007 It gives me unquantifiable amounts of joy to announce that the JCMC special theme issue on &8220;Social Network Sites&8221; is now completely birthed. It was a long and intense labor, but all eight newborn articles are doing just fine and the new mommies are as proud as could be. So please, join us in our celebration by heading on over to the Journal for Computer-Mediated Communication and snuggling up to an article or two. The more you love them, the more they&8217;ll prosper! JCMC...http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/11/13/its_live_new_jcmc_on_social_network_sites.php Raceethnicity and parent education differences in usage of Facebook and MySpace (danah boyd)- November 4, 2007 In June, I wrote a controversial blog essay about how U.S. teens appeared to be self-dividing by class on MySpace and Facebook during the 2006-2007 school year. This piece got me into loads of trouble for all sorts of reasons, forcing me to respond to some of the most intense critiques. While what I was observing went beyond what could be quantitatively measured, certain aspects of it could be measured. To my absolute delight, Eszter Hargittai (professor at Northwestern) had collected data.http://many.corante.com/archives/2007/11/03/raceethnicity_and_parent_education_differences... |