The Naked Generation

We write about everything. We capture it in photos and on video, and we share the links with online acquaintances known only by their login handle. It is too early in the social networking phenomenon to declare whether this practice is beneficial or not. What is undeniable, however, is that we live in a transparent age right now.

Demographic bias exists in Social Networks

There was some controversy last June when uber Ph.D. student Danah Boyd wrote an essay for her blog Apophenia reporting on four years of ethnographic research on social networks. That essay claimed there was a demographic segregation by class between Facebook and MySpace. The current issue of the JCMC offers some quantitative evidence that Boyd’s informal observations are correct.

Bob Dylan is my Facebook Friend

Dylan rocks. Now, he rocks for me.

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