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Keith HamonI want to talk about why most American teenagers are hanging out with their friends on MySpace and Facebook.
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Ian WilkerDanah Boyd talk on "friendship-driven practices and networked publics.... why [are] most American teenagers are hanging out with their friends on MySpace and Facebook." The great thing about Danah's work is that it's utterly concrete -- it's empirical, gr
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Jennifer Barnettgreat speech at MacArthur Forum
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zpinheadGood evening! My talk tonite concerns friendship-driven practices and networked publics. In other words, I want to talk about why most American teenagers are hanging out with their friends on MySpace and Facebook.
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Trebor ScholzMy talk tonite concerns friendship-driven practices and networked publics. In other words, I want to talk about why most American teenagers are hanging out with their friends on MySpace and Facebook
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Michel BauwensMy talk tonite concerns friendship-driven practices and networked publics. In other words, I want to talk about why most American teenagers are hanging out with their friends on MySpace and Facebook.
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Howard RheingoldMy talk tonite concerns friendship-driven practices and networked publics. In other words, I want to talk about why most American teenagers are hanging out with their friends on MySpace and Facebook.
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My talk tonite concerns friendship-driven practices and networked publics. In other words, I want to talk about why most American teenagers are hanging out with their friends on MySpace and Facebook.
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Teens don't automatically exist online. They aren't automatically a part of social network sites and their presence is simply an IP address. For this reason, teens begin by creating a presence. A digital body if you will. In social network sites, this digital body takes the form of a profile. Teens accessorize their digital body and attempt to express themselves to be as cool as possible, just like they do when they leave the house in their physical bodies. What exists offline is mirrored online.
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Next, they start adding Friends, fleshing out their social network. In doing so, they create their peer public within the broader public context. Their understanding of the social context is created in this process. These are not teens' closest and dearest, but the peer publics in which they socialize. They include classmates that they don't particularly like but don't want to offend as well as their best friends.
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comments section or Wall. This is where teens publicly converse. Often, the specific content is less relevant than the way in which that content helps teens maintain their relationships. In other words, "yo, wazzup" "not much, how you?" "goood" may seem pointless, but it has tremendous value. That supposedly meaningless interaction was a re-affirmation of friendship, a tightening of social bonds, and a confirmation that there is no drama. Those meaningless interactions are what builds the social ties that we rely on. In other words, what was really being said was: "I'm thinking of you and want validation that we are still friends and that you're willing to spend time talking to me." "Yes, of course we are friends. To prove it, I will say it publicly so that others know that we're still friends." "OK, cool. Thank you!!"
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What does hanging out provide? First, social and emotional reprieve - downtime as well as support and validation. Second, potential introduction to new ideas and cultural artifacts. Third, and most importantly, hanging out is where youth learn to make sense of social norms, peer relations, and status. This is where culture is transmitted, interpreted, and reproduced.
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As dreadful as middle school popularity fights are, learning how to negotiate peer relations is key to growing up. Forced group projects in school do not provide the same complex social interactions as peer publics. As an adult, you understand your role in relation to others and you have a pretty decent understanding of how to not offend people around you. You learned this by messing it up a few times. That's what it means to learn how to negotiate peer relations. You don't magically learn it at 18. You need to experience it. Friendships and peer publics are critical for that.
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As for youth culture... I'm not the world's biggest fan of our celebrity-ridden MTV-ified consumerist culture, but I can't blame teens for this. Teens became a demographic for marketing when our society began really age segregation in the 1920s. Condemning teens for participating in it while building a market that relies on such manipulation is hypocritical. Besides, telling youth not to participate only makes things worse. Teens should be socialized into this world with a critical eye and some media literacy. Their experiences in networked publics do actually familiarize them with the production of consumerism, even if they don't yet know how to critique it.
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five fundamental properties of networked publics
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Conversations become persistent which is great for asynchronicity, but not so great if someone wants to forget about a conversation. Digital media creates a persistence of memory.
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Teens and their content have become searchable
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Content can be replicated. An IM interaction between friends can be copied and pasted into Facebook for keeping and sharing.
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Public interactions are negotiated in front of invisible audiences. In physical environments, we can look around us and get a sense of who might be hearing our conversations. Online, this is not so possible.
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All four of these funnel into a fifth property: scalability. Networked publics amplify many things. People can be much more visible, but that doesn't necessarily mean they are. Information can spread much more widely, but that doesn't mean it does.
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Persistence, searchability, replicability, invisible audiences, and scalability destabilize context. As a result, teens learn to make sense of social contexts with these properties. This is probably a good thing. These environments aren't going away and if they learn to negotiate them now, they will be much better equipped to handle future social dilemmas.
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Just as context is destabilized through networked publics, so is the meaning of public and private. What I learned from talked to teens is that they are living in a world where things are "public by default, private when necessary."
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