https://fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu/2020/03/30/assignment-3-hupu-boys-dormitory/ MAS S.67 // Spring 2020 Tue, 19 May 2020 20:52:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.4.1 https://fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu/2020/03/30/assignment-3-hupu-boys-dormitory/#comment-27 Sat, 11 Apr 2020 21:19:39 +0000 https://fixingsocialmedia.mit.edu/?p=465#comment-27 Thanks for such a thoughtful and loving look at a community that clearly means a lot to you personally. The analogy to a boy’s dormitory is a very apt one – it’s a warm and safe space for the boys who live there, but likely a very unfriendly space for outsiders, particularly women. I wonder whether this is a defining feature of a community – there are insiders and outsiders and you are one or the other? I also found it very interesting to see the technical affordances, like the admissions quiz, that make HUPU unique. Finally, I’m very interested in the ways in which this community has maintained its identity and traditions while remaining small in the face of competition – it would be great to know a bit more about ownership and structure to understand how this has come about and how it’s remained special over all these years.

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