In May, two academics researching the display of social information looked at the ten most popular hashtags on Twitter and discovered that most were used almost exclusively by either black or white authors. The hashtag “#cookout” was almost entirely black; the hashtag “#oilspill” almost entirely white.
The internet was supposed to transcend colour, social identity and national borders. But research suggests that the internet is not so radical. People are online what they are offline: divided, and slow to build bridges. (via theeconomist)
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nocomfortinreality said:
From this quote I take it that white people don’t tweet about cookouts and black people heard all they wanted to hear about the oil spill. Black people weren’t totally oblivious to the oil spill because they didn’t tweet about it.
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