What a glorious find, if I do say so myself. I recently stumbled upon "Black Web 2.0," which was exciting for several reasons. First of all, I thought Web 2.0 was a made up term. Who knew people actually used it? Second of all, I am getting awkwardly excited to find sites like this because I never would have imagined they existed. When I started this project, I had no idea that any minority group would have separate sites for anything really, let alone technology and new media stuff. Look at me getting excited about segregation---it's so 1963.
Anyway, Black Web 2.0's motto is "A Different Perspective." There are posts about technology news, trends, gadgets, social media, and Black tech entrepreneurs. I even found this post about about why businesses should use Foursquare...perhaps a good read for my friend Kim :)!!!!!
The hot topics on this site as of tonight are Verizon, Android, Blackberry Playbook, and Apple ios software. You can find help or discussions on basically anything that you are looking for. The question remains, though, what is the purpose of this? Part of their "about me" section reads, "We also analyze emerging web trends and how they apply to web properties that target African-Americans or African-American culture." Basically, they want to highlight the role of African-Americans in the technology industry. This is often a group that gets overlooked, and I think that it is an interesting field to draw attention to. Check it out here if you are so inspired by this post.
On another note, Peter and I are preparing a fabulous presentation on user audiences for tomorrow. I've never been more excited about anything than I am to share all of my research with the class. Ok, that is a blatant lie, but here are some of our discussion questions to get you in the mood...What do you think the benefits are of having separate sites for different groups of people (minority groups or age groups)? Are they necessary? Are there enough of them out there? Would you use them?
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