danah boyd is one of my favorite writers on the intersection of media, culture, and youth. She recently posted a fascinating piece on how for teens, the same Facebook status update is meant to communicate very different things to different parts of the audience: Social steganography is one privacy tactic teens take when engaging in… Continue reading »
Sep
03
Jan
05
“Digital Decluttering: Clean up those profiles!”
The task for this week? Find and clean up all those digital profiles that arelurking out there on the Internet. Chances are, you haven’t ever really given it much thought, but you might have as many as twenty profiles collecting cobwebs in cyberspace. When someone finds you, do you want them to see outdated photos,… Continue reading »
Nov
08
: danah boyd on Twitter vs. Facebook Status Updates
“The functional act of constructing a tweet or a status update is very similar. Produce text in roughly 140 characters or less inside a single line text box and click a button. Voila! Even the stream based ways in which the text gets consumed look awfully similar. Yet, the more I talk with people engaged… Continue reading »