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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/social.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/social.txt deleted file mode 100644 index aed7493..0000000 --- a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/03.12.07/Mon/social.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,18 +0,0 @@ -I just sat in on a panel entitled "Bridging The Online cultural Divide" which addressed issues of race and gender within the social networking sphere. [Jason Toney][1] of negroplease.com fame [Lynne D Johnson][2] of Fast company and [Samhita Mukhopadhyay][3] of feministing.com. - -In this case social networking was defined as not just as the obvious sites like Facebook or Flickr, but also more generally as blogs and interaction with readers through comments. One of the salient points of nearly everyone on the panel raised at some point was that software tools used to build communities often fall short when it comes to moderating and policing communities. - -The panelists response to how much policing is necessary varied from Johnson who does absolutely no moderation on her site, to Mukhopadhyay who said that feministing will delete deliberately off-topic and "hateful" speech. - -The software developers creating social networks often have very high-minded ideas about community and how community members will interact with one another, but then, as Jason Toney put it, "people show up." As anyone who writes a blog can tell you, things can quickly get messy. - -The panel also broached the question of how online reputations can be effected by comments and reader feedback and while none of the panelists felt their own careers have been effected certainly the existence of [ReputationDefender][4] and its ilk indicate that some people are concerned about not just those drunken pictures, but also what others are saying about them. - -Lynne Johnson raised an interesting point: in some ways the online world closely mirrors the real world in that a fifty year old white male is probably not spending much time on Blogher or feministing -- if people aren't connecting offline they probably won't connect online. - -One of the things that didn't come up and the Q & A ended before I could ask is how sites like Digg, which often expose small communities to a much larger audience, effect the dialogue and interaction within the community. Oh well, maybe next year. - -[1]: http://www.jasontoney.com/ "Jason Toney" -[2]: http://www.lynnedjohnson.com/ "Lynne D Johnson" -[3]: http://www.feministing.com/ "feministing" -[4]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72063-0.html "Wired: Delete Your Bad Web Rep"
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