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An Unlikely Source of Web 2.0 Contributors: The US Prison System

September 20th, 2010 - By TheEditor
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(Black Web 2.0) – When thinking about those who use new media, we often bring to mind images of relatively young and well off people who access social media using trendy laptops or stylish smartphones.  However, there is a group that is slowly gaining access to blogs and sites like Facebook and Twitter that don’t fit these images.  This group is made up of people who are incarcerated in the US prison system. You may be surprised to learn that prisoners have ways to create the user generated content that makes up Web 2.0.

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