Rural vs urban use of social media
At Adaptive Path: useful coverage of Eric Gilbert’s work on social media in rural life. [Link]
Eric’s conclusions were that both rural and urban people use social media, but they use it very differently. He found that rural social networks span other rural social networks, creating limited access to social capital for rural people. Borrowing from Larson, people in rural areas say they want to reach beyond their communities, but in practice, they don’t.
