You can take it if you want it. Barbapapa books were my favorites as a kid. :)
I think Boyd has a really valid point about the way Americans think about "class" and our discomfort in discussing it. The essay I linked you to doesn't really address LJ in comparison to MS/FB, but it really got me thinking about the similarities and differences. I have "met" people from all sorts of socio-economic classes via LJ and fandom, and what "class" they are in is irrelevant. Is that because LJ was established long before MS/FB? It is because the primary hook for me and my f-list was fandom, not an institutionally-driven network for socializing, and thus we are diverse? Or are we not as diverse as I thought? After all, having an LJ account requires internet access, which implies certain monetary/living conditions.
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Date: 2007-07-16 02:50 am (UTC)I think Boyd has a really valid point about the way Americans think about "class" and our discomfort in discussing it. The essay I linked you to doesn't really address LJ in comparison to MS/FB, but it really got me thinking about the similarities and differences. I have "met" people from all sorts of socio-economic classes via LJ and fandom, and what "class" they are in is irrelevant. Is that because LJ was established long before MS/FB? It is because the primary hook for me and my f-list was fandom, not an institutionally-driven network for socializing, and thus we are diverse? Or are we not as diverse as I thought? After all, having an LJ account requires internet access, which implies certain monetary/living conditions.
Food for thought, yeah?