Number of African-Americans on Facebook Mirrors US Makeup
by Angela
Facebook’s Data Team released a very interesting post on Facebook’s blog late last night that reviled the ethnic make-up of Facebook as well as trends in adoption over the past several years. How you ask, especially when Facebook doesn’t request demographic information from it’s users upon registration? They used a mixed modeling method based on surnames. The whole experiment was started to answer the question “How diverse are the ethnic backgrounds of the people using Facebook?” In the blog post they explain more about how surnames we used to determine race:
Read More#blck on Twitter
by Jade
The past few days we noticed a hashtag appear on Twitter that we hadn’t seen before: #blck.
In a system that doesn’t allow for the creation of communities, an easy search for robust profiles, the “#blck is a tag created at first with the idea that you can identify yourself as a “black person” on Twitter… [...]
