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As of writing I have tried 24,000 user profiles which resulted in 11,000 active profiles and 7500 unique avatars (the others have a default avatar). | As of writing I have tried 24,000 user profiles which resulted in 11,000 active profiles and 7500 unique avatars (the others have a default avatar). | ||
Quickly scanning through one can see that the overwhelming majority are white men of around 30-40 (34 is the average age so far). This is quite | Quickly scanning through one can see that the overwhelming majority are white men of around 30-40 (34 is the average age so far). This is quite a specific demographic. | ||
Considering that there are such large amounts of images they can be divided into categories of the most prevalent types of images. | |||
Such as 'Suits' and 'Dads' | Such as 'Suits' and 'Dads' | ||
[[File:Suitsmontage_small.png | thumb | 500px | Suits- Representing one's self as reliable, professional, serious and organized]] | [[File:Suitsmontage_small.png | thumb | 500px | Suits- Representing one's self as reliable, professional, serious and organized]] | ||
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Practical steps
There are multiple angles to approach these interests.
To examine the angle I will do a couple of small experiments:
Forums sys admins/network admins
network-forums.com
Scraped 23.000 users. Unfortunately this resulted in only +/-700 avatars that are actually pretty generic. There are a few that have references to networking or system administration but the majority could be from any forum whatsoever.
This was actually the 4th big website I tried. The others either had no avatars, a spoiled userbase (spambots) or the forums had died out.
serverfault.com
- Server Fault is a question and answer site for professional system and network administrators.
It seems that places like stackexchange are the place to go now for matters regarding system administration. Since the stackexchange websites also acts as a recruitment platform, people tend to take great care in making and maintaining their profile (and reputation). One of the advantages is that there are a lot of avatars to scrape. At the moment there are +-200,000 (active and inactive)user accounts on serverfault.
As of writing I have tried 24,000 user profiles which resulted in 11,000 active profiles and 7500 unique avatars (the others have a default avatar). Quickly scanning through one can see that the overwhelming majority are white men of around 30-40 (34 is the average age so far). This is quite a specific demographic.
Considering that there are such large amounts of images they can be divided into categories of the most prevalent types of images. Such as 'Suits' and 'Dads'
One will be to map out all the avatars of the 32.000 users of Webhostingtalk.nl a forum for network administrators.
Another one will be to ask technical questions on these forums designed to get answers that might reveal a bit about the way they perceive a network to be run in terms of politics (is everyone given as much rights on the machine etc etc)
Bibliotecha will be set up within the school and I will experiment to see how it's use is built into the system, eg. do certain systems illicit certain behaviours?