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# MySpace and collective knowledge
- URL: https://werd.io/myspace-and-collective-knowledge/
- Published: 2006-02-28T12:18:50.000Z
- Updated: 2025-06-12T11:01:24.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: General, #ben-684a32da145d7d001be71dae, #Migrated-1749693130536, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-06-11 21:52

[Bill Fitzgerald](http://elgg.net/bfitzgerald/) put me onto this talk by [Danah Boyd](http://www.danah.org/): [Identity Production in a Networked Culture: Why Youth Heart MySpace](http://www.danah.org/papers/AAAS2006.html). It's a good overview to the cultural issues surrounding teens on MySpace.

It's a small Internet: I'm already familiar with Danah through her excellent [archive of Ani DiFranco lyrics](http://www.danah.org/Ani/), although I had no idea she was in academia. My girlfriend is deaf and can hear music but not lyrics; these have been invaluable, and Ani's road team have kindly used them as a reference in order to provide set lists and transcripts so she can listen along at gigs. As it turns out her PhD research is "on how people negotiate a presentation of self to unknown audiences in mediated contexts", which is obviously a very interesting topic to me - I will read [her blog](http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/) with interest.

Another interesting post is on [knowledge systems and collective questioning](http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2006/02/16/knowledge%5Fsyste.html) \- sometimes you don't want to know about the collective questioning of your community. I think this has implications for our future plans with tagging; it's definitely something to think about.