Hello all,
Interesting thread, indeed. However, it seems that for some reason I did not
received some of your emails, so maybe my contribution is already done.
Sorry if so.
Probably you would find very interesting this article by the PhD student
Danah Boyd with the title, "Viewing American Class Divisions Thorugh
Facebook and MySpace." (
http://www.danah.org/papers/essays/ClassDivisions.html) I find it very
relevant for our discussion. I got the reference reading the article
"MySpace es para perdedores" published on the Spanish newspaper, El País (
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/internet/MySpace/perdedores/elpeputec/20070626elpepunet_1/Tes
)
Best,
Pilar Gonzalo
lamusediffuse / e-artcasting
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On 7/3/07, Peter Davies <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> Hi all, this is a really interesting thread, and something I'm just
> starting to become interested in myself.
>
> In a project we are just about to be running with teenagers, we are
> playing about with the idea of using something like Facebook. The
> reasons behind this are similar, but not the same, as below. Yes we
> want to engage with teenagers on a platform they use and understand, and
> something that can be accessed remotely to the museum, but the main
> reason I want to use something like this is that these are 'social
> networking sites.'
>
> What better way to advocate the service to a large and distanced
> audience, such as teenagers, than to have them act as the advocates! My
> idea is simple, that the small group of teenagers I am working with over
> the summer all have a facebook account, they start a group which is
> formed of themselves, and they can add images (of the museum and objects
> if they wish), and their thoughts, reasons, ideas etc on these, and also
> mingle them with 'non-museum' images about themselves and their lives.
> Basically explaining what being a teenager in canterbury in 2007 is
> like.
>
> The theory behind this is that there isn't a 'museum hand' controlling
> what they write or say, and so the teenagers can advocate the service in
> their own words to their own peers. This to me is a much better way of
> running a site like this, it then lives for the duration it should live,
> and doesn't suffer 'ditching and moving' resentment when the next big
> thing comes along, because it isn't run by us, it's run by them. By
> allowing them to add the images to the site, they choose what they like
> and generate the debate and idea flow around that.
>
> In this way I'd hope we would gain the benefits of it, but by empowering
> the young people we work with, rather than some kind of obvious
> band-wagon jumping exercise on our part, which as was pointed out below,
> would have people join a group, but never know if they ever turn up
> again, or, even worse, turns out to be all us lot subscribing to each
> others' groups!
>
> Peter
>
> Peter Davies
> Outreach Officer (City Museums)
> tel: 01227 475 203
> email: [log in to unmask]
> website: www.favourite-things.org.uk
>
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