Danah Boyd, a social scientist engaged in ethnographic research, has published her findings regarding the socioeconomic effects we’ve seen play out on MySpace and Facebook. According to Boyd, those with more education tend to be on Facebook while those in the margins of nearly every aspect of our culture can be found on MySpace. -> Read more
Well, that’s not exactly surprising, given that Facebook started out as a way for college students to stay in touch with each other.
What’s surprising is that this ethnographer bothered to publish this at all. Boyd gathered all of her data from an observational perspective, culminating her findings from a collection of case studies. Perhaps she had some grant money she needed to use up.