Monday, June 05, 2006

MySpace for non-dummy beginners

If you’re looking for a primer on sites like MySpace and Bebo and why they matter, you could do much worse than to read this interview with Danah Boyd, a cultural anthropologist at Berkeley who also works with Yahoo Research, and Henry Jenkins, co-director of the Comparative Media Studies Program at MIT. Danah - an expert in the digital lives of children who maintains that MySpace is now safer for kids than for sexual predators, due to the high level of law enforcement presence on the site - and Henry talk in-depth about the particular concerns of parents, legislators, and journalists over the possible threats posed by MySpace.