{"id":529,"date":"2009-01-27T15:23:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T20:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/?p=529"},"modified":"2009-01-27T15:23:58","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T20:23:58","slug":"latinos-online-and-networking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/2009\/01\/27\/latinos-online-and-networking\/","title":{"rendered":"Latinos Online and Networking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this tidbit while doing a paper on how Latinos use social networking sites.  This quote is from a press release announcing a new social networking site called <a href=\"http:\/\/babyspotlatino.com\/\">BabySpotLatino.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.grokdotcom.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Juan\/Young_Latinos_Online.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A new report from Forrester Research shows U.S. Hispanics are active online social networkers. Three thousand online Hispanics were surveyed, and results showed 69% of Hispanic\u2019s, compared to 42% of non-Hispanics, were characterized as spectators, meaning they peruse what others do, suggesting that this is a level where interactivity starts to increase. 40% of Hispanics, compared to 12% of non-Hispanics, were characterized as creators, meaning they actively pursued social networks by blogging, uploading photos and videos and creating personal web pages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If this is true, this is a big difference in how Latinos and non-Latinos use the web.  Assuming these numbers are valid, why do Latinos engage in more social activity online than non-Latinos?  I&#8217;d guess that much of it has to do with differing notions of family, individualism and the role of friendship networks.  Help me unpack this intellectual suitcase \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I came across this tidbit while doing a paper on how Latinos use social networking sites. This quote is from a press release announcing a new social networking site called BabySpotLatino.com: A new report from Forrester Research shows U.S. Hispanics are active online social networkers. Three thousand online Hispanics were surveyed, and results showed 69% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[625,1011,423],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-latino","tag-on-line","tag-social-networking"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/129"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":531,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/thickculture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}