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  • Did Whites Flee the 'Digital Ghetto' of MySpace?

    07/16/2010 6:59:50 AM PDT · by flowerplough · 38 replies
    MIT's Technology Review ^ | 14 July | Christopher Mims
    (Danah) Boyd's current work argues that MySpace took on many of the aspects of a "digital ghetto" in the minds of teens who used the site, leading to "white [and asian] flight" from the site, analogous to the white flight from the city to the suburbs that took place in the U.S. beginning in the 1960's. Boyd continues: Consider the parallels. In some senses, the first teens to move to the "suburbs" were those who bought into a Teen Dream of collegiate maturity, namely those who were expressly headed towards dorm-­based universities and colleges. They were the elite who were...