ART 80F Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Opal Tometi, White Supremacy, Kendrick Lamar
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Social networks: databases and surveillance talk back (cont. ) Last day of freedom reactions: a, a. What is white flight: white people moving from myspace to fb, originally a movement from urban areas to the suburbs. Fb started as a harvard-only social network site before expanding to support all ivy. League schools and then top-tier colleges and then a wider array of colleges. Because of its background, some saw fb as an elite social network site. The highbrow aura of fb appealed to some potential participants while repelling others. In my fieldwork, i found that clearly dominant racial groups went unmarked, but labels like. The blacks, the chinese people, the hispanics, the mexicans, the white people, and so forth were regularly employed to define social groupings. Teens who preferred myspace lamented the limited opportunities for creative self-expression on fb, but those who preferred fb were much more derogatory about the style of profiles in.
