Whether they are driven by friendship orinterest, the young people across the United States who Ito’s team studied,representing a broad demographic sample of the population, use mediasharing and production as a form of social currency
Hier wäre es interessant zu wissen, auf welche soziologische Weise Ito auf dieses Phänomen schaut. Also warum Währung? Auf den ersten Blick klingt bei mir eine Ökonomisierungsskepsis an - könnte aber auch zu Überlegungen von Bourdieu passen
Interest-driven communities are not formed from people who alreadyknow each other, and use digital media to hang out and share mediaonline; rather, they are created by people who had not previously knowneach other but use digital media to find each other, hang out, and share theproducts of their mutual interest.
While it would be stupid to deny the importance of constituencies and audiences in the construction of an intellectual argument, I think it has to be supposed that many arguments can be made to more than one audience and in different situations. Otherwise we would be dealing not with intellectual argument but either with dogma or with a technological jargon designed specifically to repel all but a small handful of initiates or coteries.
The irony of the student's statement against Said is that by attacking him for not having the name of not including names of scholars of a specific background, the student ends up purely appealing for the interest of a specific group of individuals rather than speaking of how to make the message itself more universally accepted. Her statement of attack clearly displays how she cares more about the status of the names mentioned rather than the messages they offer which is a mentality similar to the priorities of most upper class elites in every civilization who end up creating an unnecessary divide between people of different backgrounds.