The kids online are indeed goofing off - but it's that goofing off that's key to their ability to do more "serious" internet usage.
Now, it's official: a release from MySpace has confirmed that Quarterlife will debut on its MySpaceTV platform on November 11. A project of Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, who created the TV shows My So-Called Life and Thirtysomething in addition to Blood Diamond, the new Web show will follow the lives of six people in their 20s and "chart the sometimes excruciating, sometimes comic, often emotional experiences that comprise coming of age as a part of the digital generation."
MySpace.com has found and deleted profiles of 29,000 convicted sex offenders, more than four times the initial 7,000 profiles they claimed in May. The numbers were discovered after MySpace turned over info detailing the offenders they had removed from the service. MySpace turned over the records after states filed a formal legal request.
Online predators are a smaller risk than the public is led to believe by the media and by law enforcement officials.
In what follows, I discuss the ways in which Ann, an 18 year old freshman, constructs her sense of self, or personhood (see Strathern 1999, 2004), through her engagement in two popular āsocial networkingā sites, MySpace and Facebook. Focusing upon her transition from high school to early college and, in turn, the changing materialization of self in and through her MySpace and Facebook pages, the fluidity of Annās engagement in āonlineā and āofflineā contexts. Alongside highlighting the role of media in aiding in life cycle transitions, I further suggest that, for many ādigital kidsā, the dichotomy between the ārealā and the āvirtualā may no longer be salient.
A Pennsylvania school principal has filed a lawsuit against four former students, claiming they falsely portrayed him as a pot smoker, beer guzzler and pornography lover and sullied his reputation through mock MySpace profiles.
Because MySpace is a hangout space for teenagers, aspects of their flirtation with and dismissal of potential partners takes place on the site. Given the public nature of these expressions, we can get a glimpse into the trials and tribulations of teen love. Furthermore, we can examine how technology supports pre-existing practices while complicating other aspects of relationship management. Not al
After years of Minuteman militias' preening "border patrol" exercises, months of Congressional grandstanding and weeks of debate over a House bill to crack down on immigrants, the immigrant movement struck back. In March, demonstrations and boycotts galvanized millions of people.
PEW has just released the overview of their latest study on teens' usage of social network sites. Most of the data is not surprising, but it sure is interesting. # 55% of online teens (ages 12-17) have created a personal profile online, and 55% have used social networking sites like MySpace or Facebook.
# 66% of teens who have created a profile say that their profile is not visible to all internet
In my last round of talking with teens, not a single one of them put a real age on their MySpace profiles. They were no longer saying that they were 69 or 104 (typically identifiers for teens). Instead, they were choosing arbitrary ages ranging from 16-24. Think about that. If this is as common as i'm seeing, none of the data is remotely real when it comes to age. How far does this go? Does it ext
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The kids online are indeed goofing off - but it's that goofing off that's key to their ability to do more "serious" internet usage.
Now, it's official: a release from MySpace has confirmed that Quarterlife will debut on its MySpaceTV platform on November 11. A project of Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick, who created the TV shows My So-Called Life and Thirtysomething in addition to Blood Diamond, the new Web show will follow the lives of six people in their 20s and "chart the sometimes excruciating, sometimes comic, often emotional experiences that comprise coming of age as a part of the digital generation."
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