Tuesday, 21 February 2012

online media

facebook logo -
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
Positive impact -
  • 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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