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Douglas Forbes: /* Submissions */ Link to Doug Forbes Assignment

2013-02-19T21:41:38Z

Submissions: Link to Doug Forbes Assignment

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			[[User:Douglas Forbes\|Douglas Forbes]] 16:41, 19 February 2013 (EST)
			Doug Forbes

			http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research
			http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace
			https://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2013/File:ASSIGNMENT_1_WRITE_UP_WIKKIPEDIA_ADDITIONS,_MYSPACE.docx

			Assignment One

			In 2004 I was looking for a person to help me make a web site for my business. A cousin of mine had a friend Laura who was making sites for people so I talked with her. At that time Myspace was very new and while it seems unthinkable now, she wanted to make a page on Myspace for me for a small fee. She sent me links to some examples she had done for some people. Being an opera singer herself, she had set up pages for other musicians. I didn’t like the concept at all because it seemed to me that only affiliates of the site would be likely to go there and I didn’t like the brand dilution of having a host who’s site was a visible shell around mine. I had someone else help with my first site but because of this introduction, I figured Myspace to be more of a hosting site for artists or people doing some similar notable thing and their followers, a little more like Linked in with fans. I didn’t know they were also a competitor to facebook, especially in the “friends” arena. I didn’t realize they were even still around at all until a couple of weeks ago I got a email or facebook entry with a reference to a Myspace page and felt that my reservations were vindicated. Having been introduced to Mysape through a Jewish opera singer I was quite surprised to read Boyd’s “white flight” article. Even more so because almost all of my black friends who are on anything are on facebook, with the exception of one Linkedin user, I figured the myspace had positioned itself wrong as described above and fallen prey to peoples desire to be with the latest trends.

			My college educated black friends aside, Boyds’ research is pretty compelling and of course several people who’s research she includes note that race, class, buying tastes, fashion and homophily are all tied together. (I won’t site these as they are all in Boyd’s article but for the benefit of anyone reading this who hasn’t read her article it can be found at this link): http://www.danah.org/papers/2011/WhiteFlight.pdf
			Still I was particularly surprised to find myself in a pool of white bread on facebook, I see myself as pretty progressive and have a black wife, so to be totally unaware of that divide was disturbing. This made me curious to see what the Wikipedia on Myspace page had to say and I thought it would be a good choice for a page to make an edit on. I would have considered it a real coup if they had none of Boyd’s research there and to add the “white flight” element but she was already quoted there. I noted that the sections they included did not include the fact that a lot of the perceived dangers that led people, especially parents to encourage some flight to a safer site such as facebook were actually untrue and that seemed a little unfair at best and worth mentioning as her research suggests that to a large extent, the media which often likes to exaggerate and create fear and their by parents-were largely responsible for the flight to facebook. I found it particularly telling that students that Boyd interviewed thought of facebook as safer but couldn’t explain why which suggested to me that they had gotten this from a trusted source, their parents. Lastly I thought it was important to note that some of this misplaced fear was around sexual predator apprehension, a pretty big disincentive.

			With all of the above in mind, I directly copied the following two originally non-sequential segments after some “white flight” discussion in the article. The only change being that I added, “Boyd continues” because she goes into the first person after that point (highlighted in yellow below). I went back to check on the writing and they added the citation with the same number as some other Boyd quotes so it looks like it will remain as part of the article. This means I’m now a successful contributor to Wikipedia. : )




			WIKKIPEDIA MYSPACE PAGE ADDITIONS:


			Safety – or rather the perception of safety – also emerged as a central factor in teen preference. While teens believed Facebook was safer, they struggled to explain why.

			MySpace was once a cultural center for youth culture. As Myspace grew increasingly popular, a moral panic emerged over the potential risks of sexual predators (Marwick, 2008). While the risks were overblown (Shrock and boyd, 2009), fear spread. Involved parents – typically from more educated and wealthier communities
			began looking closer and they didn’t like what they saw. Boyd continues, while my examination of MySpace profiles revealed that more teens referenced God, Jesus, bible quotes, and other religious symbols than uploaded scantily clad self-¬‐images, parents typically assumed that the latter dominated MySpace and this upset them. Furthermore, these parents were often horrified by the practices of the urban 20somethings, especially those from different cultural backgrounds who appeared to have different moral codes. The media helped produced a techno-¬‐panic, often by leveraging adult fears of urban black signals such as bling and hip-¬‐hop.

			Missing in my assignment zero paper: I wanted to include the full name of the Marshall McLuhan book that I mentioned, the title of which contained the phrase Global Village. I think I revised the paper in the process of submitting it so I don’t have the latest version so I’ll take the time to mention it here. It is “War and Peace in the Global Village” (1968)
			[[User:Douglas Forbes\|Douglas Forbes]] 16:41, 19 February 2013 (EST)

Tessa May: /* Update */

2013-02-17T00:14:56Z

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	[[User:Tessa May\|Tessa May]] 16:32, 12 February 2013 (EST)		[[User:Tessa May\|Tessa May]] 16:32, 12 February 2013 (EST)
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			Update - The “Tamar Frankel” article which I also edited, has had the “orphan” designation removed.[[User:Tessa May\|Tessa May]] 19:14, 16 February 2013 (EST)
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Alybarbour: /* Submissions */

2013-02-14T05:05:56Z

Submissions

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			http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view
			http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glitter_bombing
			http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2013/File:Wikireview.docx

Baughller at 03:17, 13 February 2013

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			Baughller

			http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view

			http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InfoArmy

			http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2013/sites/is2013/images/Baughller_Assignment_1.docx

RobMcLain: /* Submissions */

2013-02-13T00:19:39Z

Submissions

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	Rmcharv [RobMcLain]		Rmcharv [RobMcLain]

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability		http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Charms		http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Charms

	http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2013/File:RobMcLain_-_Assignment_1.docx		http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2013/File:RobMcLain_-_Assignment_1.docx

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RobMcLain at 00:18, 13 February 2013

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			Rmcharv [RobMcLain]
			http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability
			http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Charms
			http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2013/File:RobMcLain_-_Assignment_1.docx

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Jax: /* Submissions */

2013-02-12T22:39:14Z

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	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggalo		http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggalo

	http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2013/File:Wikipediafinal.docx		http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2013/File:Wikipediafinal.docx
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Jax: /* Submissions */

2013-02-12T22:36:55Z

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	http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2013/File:JW_Assignment1.pdf[[User:JW\|JW]] 17:29, 12 February 2013 (EST)		http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2013/File:JW_Assignment1.pdf[[User:JW\|JW]] 17:29, 12 February 2013 (EST)


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			Jax
			http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view
			http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juggalo
			http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2013/File:Wikipediafinal.docx

Muromi at 22:30, 12 February 2013

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			Muromi

			http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:No_original_research

			http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiragana

			http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2013/sites/is2013/images/Muromi_Assignment_1.doc


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JW at 22:29, 12 February 2013

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			JW
			http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_view
			http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_yogurt
			http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/is2013/File:JW_Assignment1.pdf[[User:JW\|JW]] 17:29, 12 February 2013 (EST)