In this post, we find out who my most typical Facebook friend is, statistically speaking.
In Part 1, we saw how privileged and not representational my Facebook friends (and all Facebookians) are. But surely for someone who has lived on 3 continents, involved with a broad international community, my Facebook friends represent a good cross-section [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘critical theory’
June 28, 2009
The Archetypal Friend: A Demographic Analysis of My Facebook Friends, Part 2
June 26, 2009
The Gated Community: A Demographic Analysis of My Facebook Friends, Part 1
This is a 3 part essay on the demographic make-up of my Facebook friends. In this post, I explain my methods and show how disturbingly exclusive the Facebook village is.
A Facebook Census
When I befriended my 200th Facebook friend earlier this year, I decided to analyze the demographic patterns in my Facebook community. I [...]
August 23, 2008
The Olympics Deconstructed
It’s the last day of the Olympics and as usual I have opinions.
Save Baseball
I just finished watching the sweaty-palmed 9th inning of the baseball game between Korea and Cuba for the gold. Korea was leading 3-2, but the Cubans had the bases loaded with only one out. The Korean catcher had just gotten [...]
July 19, 2008
Apocalypto
Apocalypto is the story of a young Mayan tribesman, Jaguar Paw, whose village is destroyed and the villagers killed or taken captive by a party of fierce raiders led by the intimidating Zero Wolf and taunted by the cruel, menacing Middle Eye. Because of a recent plague and drought we discover that the men [...]
