Networked Publics

= stresses that the internet public sphere is multiple, not monological

Citation

Danah Boyd:

"Just as context is destabilized through networked publics, so is the meaning of public and private. What I learned from talked to teens is that they are living in a world where things are "public by default, private when necessary." Teens see public acts amongst peers as being key to status. Writing a public message to someone on their wall is a way of validating them amongst their peers. Likewise, teens make choices to go private to avoid humiliating one of their friends.

Yet, their idea of public is not about all people across all space and all time. They want publics of peers, not publics where creeps and parents lurk." (http://epeus.blogspot.com/2008/04/digital-publics-conversations-and.html)