15 month ago
Andy Baio : Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace - Danah Boyd breaks down the migration of preppy white kids to Facebook
joshua : Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
Linkorama : Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace - The picture is now being blurred. Some teens are flocking to MySpace. And some teens are flocking to Facebook. Who goes where gets kinda sticky... probably because it seems to primarily have to do with socio-economic class.
WillPate : Viewing American class divisions through Facebook and MySpace
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16 month ago
Rod Begbie : meish dot org » Things my new commute has taught me #1 - I must confess that I have similarly designed heuristics and strategies for the T, as well as lane positioning on the Mass Pike, but I've never been geeky enough to write them down. [via] #
philgyford : Meish dot org » Things my new commute has taught me #1 - Meg Pickard on the hierarchy of positions in a Hammersmith & City Line carriage. It annoys me that I already know this stuff. I don't want to.
plasticbag : Meg Pickard on the natural heirarchy of seats on the tube... - I don't agree with some of what she says - the idea of being trapped by the end door with the window open in a train would appall me. Hard to escape. Otherwise though, desperately and depressingly insightful.
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19 month ago
Linkorama : The Machine is Us/ing Us - digital ethno video
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23 month ago
cameron : The Chronicle: Daily News Blog: Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) - Clifford Geertz, the influential anthropologist died a few days ago.
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29 month ago
plasticbag : Wikipedia's article on the Pirahã people has the most references to back it up, so I'm linking to it instead of all the other sites - The Pirahã apparently have almost no way of counting whatsoever and appear to be unteachable in that regard. They also have incredibly limited kinship concerns, limited sense of colour, ridiculously simple pronouns and whistle their language
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31 month ago
deusx : New Scientist Breaking News - Did early humans socialise to avoid getting eaten? - "New computer simulations lend further support the notion that cooperation helped early humans escape becoming prey for other animals, researchers report."
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36 month ago
plasticbag : 'Proof' our brains are evolving - a really interesting BBC News piece on genes associated with acculturation.. - "The microcephalin variant appeared along with the emergence of traits such as art and music, religious practices and sophisticated tool-making techniques, which date back to about 50,000 years ago."
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39 month ago
plasticbag : A mobile tale of three cities - "Amparo Lasén, a Spanish sociologist, is completing a study conducted for the Digital World Research Center at the University of Surrey in England of mobile phone users in London, Madrid and Paris to compare behavioral changes between cultures and over
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