- Nov 2015
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While many teens encode meaning as a strategy for navigating visibility, other teens leverage similar techniques to tease their class-mates with secrets. For example, some teens use pronouns and song lyrics in ways that make it very clear to the onlooker that they are not “in the know.”
I think that this is very interesting in that I've never really considered these types of actions as "strategies" and "techniques" aiming towards privacy. That being said, I see this type of behavior all the time online (more often in high school), and looking back it's funny seeing how outsiders really had no way of knowing what the messages were referencing.
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In a mediated world, assumptions and norms about the visibility and spread of expressions must be questioned. Many of the most popular genres of social media are designed to encourage participants to spread information.
This is such a stark contrast to the previous description about intimate personal conversations that happen in public, but are still private due to social norms and contexts. Online, especially on social media, mass spread is emphasized and it is assumed that what you are sharing is not private.
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Unlike privacy advocates and more politically conscious adults, teens aren’t typically concerned with governments and corporations. Instead, they’re trying to avoid surveillance from parents, teachers, and other immediate authority figures in their lives. They want the right to be ignored by the people who they see as being “in their busi-ness.”
It is true that most of the security and privacy settings teens nowadays put on their social media and internet presence revolves around avoiding contact with immediate figures in their lives. Teens worry about their parents or principal seeing what they are doing more so than they worry about the FBI or police.
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perhaps he imagined the audience of his MySpace profile to be his classmates, family, and community—not the college admissions committee
Even with countless reminders from parents, older siblings, and teachers, many younger kids using social media sometimes forget that anyone can view their material, as they are focused solely on their image within their community and marketing themselves to the audience of their friends and family.
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Gossip and rumors have historically spread like wildfire through word of mouth. And although search engines certainly make inquiries more efficient, the practice of ask-ing after others is not new, even if search engines mean that no one else knows. What is new is the way in which social media alters and amplifies social situations by offering technical features that people can use to engage in these well-established practices.As people use these different tools, they help create new social dynam-ics. For example, teens “stalk” one another by searching for highly vis-ible, persistent data about people they find interesting. “Drama” starts when teens increase the visibility of gossip by spreading it as fast as pos-sible through networked publics.
It's pretty obvious that in a world where gossip already circulates like crazy, the speed and extent of spreading would increase once these issues were brought to social media. However, social media does not just broaden the audience of these rumors, it allows for a completely new platform of spread-ability and tools to increase the rumors themselves, not just who is viewing them.
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- Oct 2015
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She used Facebook to extend the plea-sure she had in connecting with her classmates during the game. Although she couldn’t physically hang out with her friends after the game ended, she used Facebook to stay connected after the stands had cleared
I think this explanation of social media captures the majority of usage in our generation. I know from personal experience that this is something that happens every day - friends posting photos with captions referring to the time they had just spent together. It helps people stay connected to their friends and also show their connection in the community.
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learn.sju.edu learn.sju.edu
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what kept the story alive was not the press but liberal and conservative bloggers,
Unlike news media which needs constant new information or spins on their stories to keep them relevant, publishers and bloggers online have more wiggle room with keeping stories going and further diving into details and viewpoints.
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The future presented by the internet is the mass amateurization of publishing and a switch from "Why publish this?" to "Why not?"
It really is true how much opportunity the web opens up. Nearly anyone can publish anything they wish with no worries of whether it is too costly as was previously a concern in the newspaper business. I really like that line of making the switch from "Why publish this? to "Why not?" It really gives a sense of the kind of unlimited freedom and self-expression the Internet offers.
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The principal threat to the Richmond Daily News, and indeed to all newspapers small and large, was not competition from other newspapers but radical changes in the overall ecosystem of information. The idea that someone might build four-color presses that ran around the clock was easy to grasp. The idea that the transmission of news via paper might become a bad idea, that all those huge, noisy printing presses might be like steam engines in the age of internal combustion, was almost impossible to grasp. Howard could imagine someone doing what he did, but better. He couldnt imagine someone making what he did obsolete
I think that this passage is worded well in that it shows the true threat to the old newspaper business. Instead of worrying about competition from competing newspaper sources, businesses should be looking at competition from other outlet sources, namely the Internet. It's interesting that these ideas of something else taking over, of paper becoming "obsolete" is so "impossible to grasp" at this time.
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firstmonday.org firstmonday.org
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the power of Internet memes lies in their ability to draw attention to issues and causes worth our interest. Memes are embedded within the larger cultural ecology and work in a reciprocal relationship: “Popular culture and politics cannot be fully separated. They are discursively structured in many similar ways, and they inform each other, feed off each other” [23]. Once our attention is diverted to issues worth our interest, we can then take action
Many memes are notorious for drawing on political references and rallying support for a cause. They are incredibly powerful when used correctly, in the proper context and drawing upon proper issues and ideals. I think it is very important to note that memes have the ability to unify groups of people together, as with the HRC logo for marriage equality. However, memes are only able to do this if the cause is worthy of interest to the audience.
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a meme must retain enough of its original form or ideas to be recognizable, but its continued transmission depends on its changing to meet the hosts’ needs. Finally, longevity simply means that the longer a meme is transmitted and varied, the more potential it has to influence others.
It is true that what makes a meme a meme is keeping to the core image or idea of the original. While anyone can make a meme out of nearly anything, saying anything they wish, it must be relevant and recognizable to the original in order to be considered a proper meme and have a chance to grow.
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Memes operate within cultures and are responses to the desires, interests, and needs of the specific host culture within which they emerge and spread. Successful memes are attuned to the social and cultural specifics of their audience; they play on familiar visual or textual concepts or rely on culturally relevant songs, jokes, or sayings.
This statement is very relevant. Memes only flourish and gain momentum if they hit a certain nerve on an audience. That nerve could be a specific joke, a relevant topic, or a unifying experience or thought. Memes must be in tune to the social and cultural aspects of the time.
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henryjenkins.org henryjenkins.org
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processes of meaning making, as people use tools at their disposal to explain the world around them.
I think that this is an important part about viral media and memes. This idea of people using viral content to pull attention to their ideas about the world is shown every day on Social Media. Any given day, memes with different captions will circulate sites like Twitter. It is very visible. However, most don't think about the fact that someone is using media they know to work in order to apply their ideas and share them to others by having them think in a new, relatable way about a message they want to share.
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perhaps in those who crafted that message
While short, this point has a lot deeper meaning. I think that anyone can build themselves up on the web, into an effective communicator and contributor. However, I feel like spreadable media only spreads when it is spread by the right people. You need to have connections before any content you spread can be "viral" and often times, you need to have some sort of reputation to an extent.
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viral media referred to situations “where the marketing messaging was powerful enough that it spread through the population like a virus,” a suggestion the properties of viral media lie in the message itself
I think that this is the definition most people would attribute to "viral" media on the web. Videos become viral on YouTube or Facebook when their message is powerful and/or appealing. Photos on Twitter are the same way, with the funniest, most relatable, powerful messages are those who spread. Whereas messages that are not on the same level in these fields don't have as much of a chance.
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Things will get decided by data-crunching computer algorithms and no human will really be able to understand why.
This statement sticks out particularly. In a world of constantly changing and upgrading technology, who knows what will happen in the future. Many people in today's world fail to learn why and understand how thing's happen. If the world turns into a big robot, crunching data and spitting out numbers, humans will feel no need to learn anything for themselves.
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It's interesting to think of the Internet as "less open." Our generation has always known the internet to be open and free to everyone. Our parents were introduced to the idea that it had limitless possibilities and doors to every topic of information. It's weird to think of the Internet becoming a place for smaller online communities that never cross borders and explore the others. But I think that's what the author is trying to say here and in the other articles we have read. It is becoming more centralized, regulated, and personalized rather than staying open, free, and exploratory.
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The Internet will become a lot more like TV and a lot less like the global conversation we envisioned 20 years ago.
This comparison between TV and the Internet really shows the difference between the original standard for the Internet as a place of learning and knowledge to the transition to a place of purely entertainment.
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www.ted.com www.ted.com
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you couldn't have a functioning democracy if citizens didn't get a good flow of information, that the newspapers were critical because they were acting as the filter, and then journalistic ethics developed. It wasn't perfect, but it got us through the last century. And so now, we're kind of back in 1915 on the Web. And we need the new gatekeepers to encode that kind of responsibility into the code that they're writing.
He makes a really good point here and in the statements prior about the importance of ethics in the world of journalism. A good society needs an assortment of information on various topics and with differing viewpoints. Hopefully the "new gatekeepers" are able to learn from the past and develop ethics themselves.
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this moves us very quickly toward a world in which the Internet is showing us what it thinks we want to see, but not necessarily what we need to see
This line is very important. It really portrays the main idea of the talk by showing how this personalization of the web could have potentially negative effects.
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- Sep 2015
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learn.sju.edu learn.sju.edu
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He wrote forty updates in ten days
This is impressive and I think it really shows how involved you must be with your audience in order to be successful.
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From the humble beginnings of Ivanna's story and a handful of snapshots of Sasha and her friends, the Stolen Sidekick page went on to get over a million viewers
The idea that a single story about a lost cell phone was able to gather one million viewers is incredible. It just goes to show how quick word can travel online and how successful someone can be if they take the right steps (ie. connect with their audience, update often, etc.)
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You and what army
This quote is incredibly ironic, but true. Evan was able to build up an incredible army to stand behind him. However, I'm not sure Sasha knew too much about one's internet presence and therefore didn't think he would be able to rally together so many people on his side.
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one of the themes running through the story is the power of group action, given the right tools. Despite Evans heroic efforts, he could not have gotten the phone returned ifhe had been working alone. He used his existing social network to get the word out, which in turn helped him find an enormous audience for Ivanna's plight, an audience willing to do more than just read from the sidelines. This audience gave Evan remarkable leverage in dealing with Sasha, and with the NYPD, leverage he wouldnt have had without such an engaged group following along. Indeed, the nature of that engagement puts many of the visitors to Evans webpage in a category that Dan Gillmor, a journalist and the author of We the Media, calls "the former audience," those people who react to, participate in, and even alter a story as it is unfolding.
This passage really hits the nail on the head with what this entire story and class is about. Evan understood how to use the internet and social networks properly in order to yield the best results. His efforts allowed him to grow an audience for the cause, something that would have never happened had he not taken action and found participants to join. It shows the power of the audience and how important it is to react and participate as a reader and writer on the web.
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The original page went up on June 6, and in the first few hours it was up, Evan's friends and their friends forwarded it around the internet, attracting a growing amount of attention.
It is crazy how far we have come technologically in order for this to be possible. It's amazing to think about how someone is able to upload a few sentences or photos and circulate their story around the web with just a few clicks.
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er.educause.edu er.educause.edu
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They understand how small-world and long-tail networks function. They also understand the notions of reputation and diffuse reciprocity, which are increasingly important online. Both educators and learners use these notions to tune and feed their networks, to build their personal learning networks. Online, you have to decide which people you are going to allow into your attention sphere. Who is going to take up your mind, your space?
With the power of the Internet it may become overwhelming with the amount of people one could reach out to. I think the author is trying to suggest that one find an audience they feel comfortable with and network from there, rather than go overboard and make all the connections that software will suggest, because then it will be too many and not enough who are part of the circle you are trying to network into. I'm not entirely sure, but it seems as if he is saying to only network in your particular community, making sure the audience is who you want to reach out to so that what you are doing is worthwhile.
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participating, even if it's no good and nobody cares, gives one a different sense of being in the world. When you participate, you become an active citizen rather than simply a passive consumer of what is sold to you, what is taught to you, and what your government wants you to believe. Simply participating is a start.
Participating is so important regardless of what you have to say from the start. The only way you are going to become part of a group is by putting yourself out there and joining in conversation. The same is true for an online community. Your presence must be known.
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none of these literacies live in isolation.1 They are interconnected. You need to learn how to exercise mindful deployment of your attention online if you are going to become a critical consumer of digital media; productive use of Twitter or YouTube requires knowledge of who your public is, how your participation meets their needs (and what you get in return), and how memes flow through networked publics. Ultimately, the most important fluency is not in mastering a particular literacy but in being able to put all five of these literacies together into a way of being in digital culture.
Again, I like his use of the idea that there is more to everything, social media literacy especially. These are not just 5 singular ideas or suggestions. Success only happens if they are all assessed together and effort is put into each aspect.
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When it comes to social media, knowing how to post a video or download a podcast—technology-centric encoding and decoding skills—is not enough. Access to many media empowers only those who know how to use them. We need to go beyond skills and technologies. We need to think in terms of literacies. And we need to expand our thinking of digital skills or information literacies to include social media literacies.
I really like this opening. The author really makes you think about all the other factors that go into being social media savvy. It takes a lot more than just the ability to click "post" - it takes a lot of planning, research, attention to detail, effort, and energy.
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