1. What are the contributions in this paper?
The contention of this article is that these well-‐intentioned efforts oversimplify and distort relations between digital media and social inequalities.. To overcome this seeming paradox, I propose an alternative approach for studying relations between digital media and social inequalities, one focused on ‘ differentiating practices ’.
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2. What did the outsiders think of the girls who hung out with this clique?
and especially less-privilegedstudents, tended to label the girls who hung out with this clique more pejoratively, using terms such as ‘the goody two shoes.
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3. What did the study show about the role of cliques in the school?
Participation in optional clubs and after-school programs, as well as hanging out with friends outside of school, also helped produce and maintain clique formations and divisions.
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4. What did the students think of the clique?
Other students primarily recognized this clique for their distinctively enthusiastic orientation towards a clustering of specific media, notably video games, but increasingly media production activities as well.
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