Agenda:
- First 6 Paragraphs of How Social Media is Ruining politics
- Jones and Hafner- Chapters 8 and 10 (online communities, discourse)
- Prezi Presentations
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How Social Media is Ruining Politics
Questions?
- What restrictions or freedoms does it afford?
- Does it verify or confirm our existing viewpoints?
- What kind of democracy is being promoted?
- What is being gained / loss by these changes?
Claims;
You end up gathering or flocking to people who are like you and share your views.
The message ends up lost and unclear on social media.
Social media has become more encompassing, taking over.
Regulates what we see as well as our responses.
Think of social media as a window, you can only see what’s outside the window. Meaning we only see what’s filtered through other mediums.
These things are not helping us get more involved or informed on social issues or politics, it’s benefiting the companies and big name brands.
Communication becomes less meaningful and more superficial on social media.
Gaining, speed, updates and access to news
Loosing, quality, pernicious content
Social media places more information in peoples hands however they have to know how to use it, better yet WANT to use it and access vital information.
Peer Input;
“(Jodieann) Social media has the power to drastically change how we think, and it effects our individual self. Disrupting who we are as people.”
“(Mariah) Social experiment on asking people who the current political leaders are, and how shocking it was that many did not know. Going to show that we are not more informed because of social media.”
“(Pam) Quick news stories, they come as us so fast they’re not as important as they were in the past”
“(Ashey) DeBlasio (mayor) had a mainly social media campaign, grabbing team attention and new voters attention” >Fola (replied) admitted her voting for President Obama based on popularity and his image, not by doing political research.
Jones and Hafner- Chapters 8 and 10
Chapter 8-
(Page 117)Online Affinity space- discourse system, theres a way of going about operating in these communities. A starting place where people come together to build, interact or communicate to build relationships.
Cultures of use- conventions norms and values that grow up around a particular group of users. Each affinity space has its own set of them.The better you are at understanding these the better you will be at communicating.
Discourse system- using different tools, to get your message across. Communicating in a community. Ideaology, face systems, forms of discourse and socialization. For example don’t take things at face value, look further into them.
Face System- how people interact or get along with one another. Interpersonal connections.
Forms of discourse- How the communicate, online, in person ect
Socialization- how people learn to communicate within that discourse community. Online communities use the apprenticeship method, learn on the job. The relationship between the self and the community is important.
We often participate in multiple discourse communities, learning to adapt to each one. We also flock to ones we relate to or are interested in joining.
People try to learn the rules and gain skills in the forms of discourse to climb in within the group.
Media ideologies: With the shareability of online communities your messages can be spread or perceived in ways you didn’t intend. You cant look at just one medium, they effect each other. There’s no one way to use the tool. Each culture will have its own definition of what’s “socially acceptable”
With each downside or folly of one medium there is advance in another. These networks cant stay the same, their use and communities evolve and change over time. Different networks lend their abilities to different professions and groups.
Informational vs relational: do you want to get information or spread your idea or voice. Meaning are you using a platform to get information or to spread it.
(Bottom of page 121) Approaching different platforms, everyone has a different view on how medias are used (twitter vs facebook) The media you chose to share your information will determine the audience it will reach and the response it will get. The idea against technological determinism, it will determine partial uses but it really depends on the community.
Online communications can sometimes amplify cultural divides or differences, what was once a small scale issue can now be shared globally. Discussions about traditions, culture practices and ideology can take center stage.
We reinforce our values and cultural norms online, however being online gives us the ability to share our views on other cultural norms, sometimes creating controversy sometimes creating smaller or sub groups of larger communities.
Prezi Presentations: Ashley and Mariah presented on 10/8 the rest of us will present on 10/13 (for more information on each presentation click the persons name!)
Fola – Discussing Pintrest
Ashley – Discussing Instagram
The terms and service of instagram- many many communities on instagram but not all understand what happens to their media. You own your original content. When facebook bought IG there was great upset over the privacy practices. Device identifiers or cookies collect data connected to the operating system, meaning this is why you get “just for you ads” and things that seem oddly tailored to you. IG has access to any device you log onto, they may store it an share with third parties (apps or sites affiliated with IG legally)
Jodieann – Discussing LinkedIn
Pamela – Discussing Facebook
Mariah – Discussing Tumblr
Fandoms- built around a general or shared interest, they create media posts based around that shared idea. Very vocal and interested in sharing the best of the fandom. Tumblr is a global platform. Tumblr doesn’t take your posts you own them. Tumblr tracks the popularity of fandoms, whats trending, whats coming up.
Samantha – Discussing Twitter
Vocabulary
Fortuitous: By luck or by chance
Tribalistic: A multi view point community
Pluralistic: One view point community
Kindred : Like minded people
Ideaology: The study of ideas
Cloistered: grouped together but separate
Pernicious: bad or harmful
Wow, these are really thorough, clear class notes Sam! I especially like the links to other content (such as the Schedule and classmates’ presentations) on our OpenLab site. Amazing job 🙂
One quick question: you mention the “photos” you included (with the excerpts/questions folks wrote on the board, on Hafner & Jones, ch. 8), but I don’t seem them here. Did you forget to include them?
Thank you! It was a big dicussion so i wanted to have as much of it to refer back to as possible. The pictures should be where the two questions mark boxes are at the end of the post, I guess they didnt link in their properly I’ll try and fix that asap.