Sunday, August 11, 2013

Week 5 Response: Danah Boyd, “White Flight in Networked Publics?: How Race and Class Shaped American Teen Engagement with MySpace and Facebook”


In this article the author talks about racism on the Internet. Younger generations are carrying forward this practice by using it on the Internet.



“It’s not really racist, but I guess you could say that. I’m not really into racism, but I think that MySpace now is more like ghetto or whatever” – Kat.

The teen says this without realizing its implications. According to her, people who are still using MySpace are backward or Blacks. She tries to put an image of white people being much advanced and creative. And the minorities are just gonna follow them.

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