In The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, sociologist Erving Goffman describes the social rituals involved in self-presentation as “impression management.”
I feel like this creates a generation of people who constantly think of themselves. This is what social media has set us up for.
Teens have grown sophisticated with how they manage con-texts and present themselves in order to be read by their intended audi-ence. They don’t always succeed, but their efforts are phenomenal.
I think that this is a very valid point. Without realizing, teens always cater to the needs of people they don't know personally. Sometimes I think instagram is the opportunity to feel like a celebrity if you are good at using it.
Social media may seem like a peculiar place for teens to congregate, but for many teens, hanging out on Facebook or Twitter is their only opportunity to gather en masse with friends, acquaintances, classmates, and other teens. More often than not, their passion for social media stems from their desire to socialize.
This reminds me of high school on twitter. I would definitely say many of us were addicted to refreshing our feed so we always knew what each other were up to or thinking. It was a cross between a personal journal and information of what my classmates were doing. Multiple times I made plans to hang out with friends through social media.
So it's an interesting position to be in as a journalist, because we should have access to everything. Any event that happens anywhere in the world, I should be able to know about it pretty much instantaneously, as it happens, for free. And that goes for every single person in this room.
The job of a journalist is very interesting to me in our present. It seems very complicated to make stories that count when we all as the public including non journalists have the same access to incoming news. In a way, anyone can be a journalist.
where they didn't have any way of affecting news or making any change. They couldn't really connect. And that's changed irrevocably.
It's interesting to try and think back to a time where there weren't many sources of news. Not only was there limited sources, but limited interaction and ability for public to add to the news. I wonder if it's more truthful now or just as skewed.
Is there a feedback option? Email address, contact form, public comments — any kind of feedback loop suggests there’s someone responsible at home.
I like this idea of responsibility. I like when there is a two sided use for a website. It is important when someone is interested in what viewers have to say.