A Small Linkdump of Recent Smart Things Written About the Internet/IRL Dichotomy:
+ Thankfully, someone at the Times had the good sense to publish an effective rejoinder to Bill Keller’s hysteria piece, The Twitter Trap. Jenna Wortham’s Does Facebook Help or Hinder Offline Friendships? takes a nice, smart, even tone—and a realistic portrayal of the way most of us actually roll.
+ Oh, to be a real academe. Here’s a Twitter link to Danah Boyd and Alice Marwick’s paper-in-progress, Social Privacy in Networked Publics: Teens’ Attitudes, Practices, and Strategies. I would like to write the “adult” version of this paper.
+ From Yale’s Law & Technology blog via the site of one Max Cho (a post that deserves a link if only for its title alone): Unsell Yourself — A Protest Model Against Facebook. I feel like this piece fails to account for the prevalence of irony in Internet humor (and how certain social logics emerge to form new stratas of power—we see this in the art world all the time). But hey, sure—go ahead and “like” Lady Gaga and call it protest. It’s just Facebook, after all.
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