social network, friends, chat, identity, mediated, sharing, posting,
Negative impact -
- often monitored by the police and some things posted can feature on the news
- cyber bullying, youths represented negatively
- distracts them from school/ college work
- Strengthen friendships
- Youths can advertise own businesses e.g. photography, music showing determination and dedication
- cultures coming together
- allows people to express themselves
What new forms of social interaction have media technologies enabled?
- globalisation
- development of self-identity
- sharing of info
- self - realisation
- collective intelligence
- reshaping media messages and their flow; reshape and recirculate messages
- consumer communication with business (greater influence) - mass collaboration
- user generated content
The modern identity concept
Personal identity
-sense of being a unique individual
Social Identity
-results from being a member of a group
-in former times: nationality, race, gender, occupation, sport club
Mediatization of the self
-diversity of interest groups in online social networks
-easy transition between those communities
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