Earlyon,histweetswerewhathedescribedas“theequivalentofaFoursquarestatuslike,Tmherenow,’or‘I’mdoingthis,’or‘Thisthingjusthappenedtome,’orwhatever.”Aftertheincorporationof©intotheplatformhowever,hedescribedhisfeedas“probablyatleast50percentconversationatalltimes,just©repliestopeople.”
I feel like this is totally true and somewhat like Facebook. People make a status or tweet about where they are and that transformed into the @ for twitter and tagging or facial recognition for Facebook.
heDodgeballandFoursquareappswerebothdevelopedtohelppeopleletoneanotherknowtheirlocations
I have never heard of these apps before and I don't want them. If you have an iPhone you can just share your location with important people.
Grindr also sells advertising opportunities to companies with a precision that can “target specific regions, cities, postal codes and even certain lat[itude]-lon[gitude] radi[i]” (Directo-pub, 2018, p. 5)
I feel this is something all platforms are starting to do..Its an easy way to make money and can be manipulated to work how it's needed.
They are platforms that bring together users, corporate partners, and even governments who have a vested interest in “the systematic collection, algorithmic
Arent all social media platforms? They are all intended for people to communicate, meet, etc.
Whilst it waspossible to establish a strong online identity through personal blogs and websites,platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Instagram accelerate and accent-uate the means by which users can package,perform and sell a lucrative personalbrand across several online sites
I feel like this is something we see a lot today on social media. There are tons of advertisements or "sponsored" posts that are on our feed and that was not something that happened in the past.
But celebrities with afollowing can also use their own media (e.g. websites, blogs, Facebook, Twitter andInstagram) to influence this audience (e.g. the Kardashians
An example that sticks with me is athletes, they have a huge audience and can advertise to millions of people in a single post.
Self-branding, which is sometimes called personal branding, involves individuals devel-oping a distinctive public image for commercial gain and/or cultural capital.
I feel like self branding is a lot easier today than it was a few years ago. Social media and technology are a necessity in our society and people take advantage of that by branding themselves through apps like instagram and tik Tok and actually make careers out of it.
SimplicityAnother prominent feature in this group of videos is simplicity.
I think this is important because if its simple people can run with it in other ways. Success of memes comes from the customization that you can do with them.
Sending the initial message to these highly connected indi-viduals has proved to be much more effective than sending it to “regular” users
It's pretty weird that we can be categorized based on what we do on the internet. With that information companies can find ways to spread information quickly and even make money from it.
One of Berger and Milkman’s key findings is that people are more likely to share positive than negative stories
This is somewhat surprising to me but I also understand it. Positivity gets to a wider age range but if a post angers enough people it can definitely spread quickly.
This differentiation between two types of memetic content can be further associated with stance alternations. For example, the utterly serious keying of the original photograph has been transformed in the process of memetic uptake, which involves explicit playfulness.
The stance of a meme is extremely important. Some memes can easily be taken in the wrong way sometimes if the creator is not careful.
Pepper-Spraying Cop” into an endless array of contexts, spanning historical, artistic, and pop-culture-oriented backgrounds
I feel like I have seen a ton of cop meme's, especially in 2020-2021 with all the protests and other issues that went on.
MORE! LEAVE HER ALONE! You’re lucky she even performed for you BASTARDS! LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE! [...] Leave Britney Spears alone right NOW!
It seems like that in America media seems to spread more when its about someones private business or some celebrities life. We are nosy
Second, many competing terms—such as “viral”—tend to be used interchangeably with it.
I don't think "viral" would work as well as "meme". I have also never heard of viral being used instead of meme, and for some reason "viral" bothers me.
In this en-vironment, user-driven imitation and remixing are not just prevalent practices: they have become highly valued pillars of a so-called participatory culture.
I feel like memes are a way of communication for younger generations just like GIF's. It is also just very entertaining to go back and forth with friends or family to see what they find funny etc.
enigmatic
I didn't know what this word meant so I looked it up and it means "difficult to interpret/understand".
destinationviewing”
I have heard of this somewhere, I think it was from the Netflix documentary called The Social Dilemma. I recommend watching it, it breaks down large media organizations and how they manipulate our feeds to make them money etc, its crazy.
“sticki-ness”broadlyreferstotheneedtocreatecontentthatattractsaudienceattentionandengagement
My understanding of "stickiness" is that information needs to be presented a certain way to grab the attention of the viewer. Stickiness focuses on the interaction and engagement of the audience and media that users want to spread.
digitalmediaprovideacatalystforreconceptualizingotheraspectsofculture,requiringtherethinkingofsocialrelations,thereimaginingofculturalandpoliticalparticipation,therevisionofeconomicexpectations,andthereconfigurationoflegalstructures
I think this described media in general very well, especially in regards to our society and culture. Media plays a role in everything we do today, and new norms are developed over time which is the change this quote is talking about.
mage-*editingprogramssuchasPhotoshopcanautomaticallycorreccscannedim-*ages,improvingcontrastrangeandremovingnoise.
its weird to think that a computer can process a picture and be able to think of ways to make it better. and AI will only continue to get crazier and crazier
Inthe1990s,fre-quentersofInternetchatroomsbecamefamiliarwith“bots”—computerprogramsthatsimulatehumanconversation
I didn't know chat rooms were a thing in the 1990's, especially where bots were used to create conversations.
Anewmediaobjectissubjecttoalgorithmicmanipulation
To think that almost everything we do on our phones or computers is all some crazy algorithm is interesting and something I don't understand at all. Hopefully I can get a better understanding from this article.
‘Graphics’
This is definitely why some people use "g" instead of pronouncing it with a "j" like the peanut butter. People see it as a graphic which is easier to grasp for new GIF users.
GIF thrives nearly two decades after its introduction, sustaining a renewed interest in the loop.
I don't see GIF's going away any time soon. They keep getting better and better as people get more into making them and as technology is a necessity for everyone to have.
They tell a short story ordescribe situations readers may intimately identify with.
I just think sending GIF's are more fun and funnier than sending regular texts. GIF's are somewhat like memes
“With Nanette, she draws a line under that,” writes Brian Logan of the Guardian. “No more pretend-ing that queer-bashing is funny. No more defusing tension to put an audi-ence at ease.”
Hannah Gadsby did a great job with Nanette and showing that her life is something that thousands and thousands of people go through all the time and it's not fair. Although this is a comedy special, she really is fighting for herself and trying to change the experience for everyone because it is not something people should be going through. I have never heard of the MeToo movement either.
Not to mention that this rhetorical ping-pong of tension relieved by punch lines forces comics to oscillate between two modes of discourse: serious (angry) or humorous (funny).
This was something I had noticed while watching Nanette. I felt there was a lot of tension the whole time because it was such an intense topic, but the way she mixed in her own personal jokes or her experience made it funny. The tension she created takes you to a place where you understand that what she's talking about is very serious so I need to listen and learn, but I can also laugh.
As a lesbian, gender “nonnormal,” woman perform-ing comedy, she intentionally devalues her skills as a practitioner, as society has taught her to do in order to command the power that comedy demands.
Hannah Gadsby was a truly funny stand up comedian but throughout her time It was obvious that she devalues herself as she has been taught all her life. She crafted her show around making fun of herself almost, but also throwing it back at everyone else because of what she had to go through mentally for years.
nstead of legitimizing the family’s dreamfor Alana to win a grand supreme title—the highest award in the child beautypageant cirtcuit—Michaela’s presence makes this dream laughable. We know Alanawill never be a winner, unless she is competing in a blueberry pie-eating contest
This seems a little tough for Alana. Basically saying she's not lady like enough to win the supreme prize and the only way shed ever win is if there was an eating contest of some sort. Although this is somewhat aggressive, the standards women need to hold to win a contest like that is something that Alana does not have. she might be the wrong type to be participating in pageants
Sounds of common bodily functions like burping, for example, arealmost always amplified
Burps being amplified is something that doesn't sound too funny to me. Watching a pageant show that entails burping, farting, food crumbs seems pretty entertaining to some people though. Which I guess makes sense as to why they would amplify burping sounds throughout the show. This show seems to destroy the "normal" view of how pageant participants should act or behave.
Bodily functions, as illustrated here, are a common occurrence onHere ComesHoney Boo Boo, a weekly reality series on TLC that aired from August 8, 2011 toAugust 14, 2014.
Believe it or not I have somehow seen some parent shows throughout my life and this type of behavior is something that you don't really see. These patent girls are usually covered in head to toe with nice stuff or being polite and fancy, not farting and having food fall from her mouth. Is this some type of white poor family characteristic stereotype?
That is, films use a certain set of visual and aural signs which immediately bespeak homosexuality and connote the qualities associated, stereotypically, with it.
why are we trying to amplify stereotypes? is it because they are seen to be funny or inappropriate? Stereotypes arrest typically a good thing yet we push them through generations which created this consistent use of stereotypes. I don't really like this because there is no need to amplify the characteristics of a gay person because it is not a big deal. There is no need for this in my opinion.
It is not surprising then that the genres in which gays most often appear are horror films and comedy.
I don't really see this connection either. Im not sure why gays are more common in horror or comedy fils but Ive never actually noticed that. I don't feel like these genres target these people for the content or context of the movie so I'm not sure why this is a stereotype.
Sociological theorr suggests four different, though inter-related, ways of organising this information: role, individual, type and member.4
Going on from this, these observations have a orocess people go through and this can start from a very young age. All younger age kids do is take in their surroundings and try to draw connections between people, cloths, or surroundings. These observations turn into stereotypes that can either have a positive or negative affect in the end.
While in the past, fans relied on intermediaries like gossip writers for accessto celebrities, on social media fans can now interact more directly with celebrities(Marwick & Boyd,2011). The directness of this communication creates a sense of proxi-mity, closeness, and intimacy (Bennett,2014). On social media, it is easier than ever toexperience intimacy with your favorite celebrity
I agree with this statement. Social media plays a massive role in how fans interact with their favorite celebrities. Although they typically don't answer to just anyone, it's a platform that allows them to share their lives and things they do everyday. This enables fans to be able to connect to celebrities in more personal and interesting ways. It will be interesting to see how much social media will change with connection to celebrities and things such as civic engagement, fundraisers, etc in the future.
This creates a one-sided or asymmetrical relationship between celebrities and their fan-publics. We knowintimate details of celebrities’lives while, in theory, they know nothing about ours
I think this concept is extremely interesting. It is so true that the public eye knows so much information about a famous individual, yet, they know nothing even remotely close to a fans life. This can also be extremely beneficial for these famous individuals who, like Somerhalder, participate in or run fundraisers or any type of events, as any fan would be itching to go due to what they see of this person's character or how they see them portrayed as a person.
Somerhalder has runthree other fundraisers like this, raising just under one million dollars.
Going off of this comment, It is crazy to see how much influence celebrities have over people who watch of follow them. Just because they are in our favorite show or we like them as an actor or character, we tend to cling to things they believe in or support. Recently, I have seen a lot of celebrities on instagram asking people to donate money to the Red Cross to support the explosion that happened a couple weeks ago. This type of fundraising I do support, it spreads awareness and helps people affected by it.
He or she may only be perceived through these things, may even be thought to be formed by them, yet there is, in this concept of the person an irreducible core of being, the entity that is perceived within the roles and actions, the entity upon which social forces act.
My takeaway from this is that there is more to stars than what the media portrays. I think it is always important to remember that behind all of the actors or characters that they're playing, they too have their own lives and own identity, that usually the media shy's away from showing. For example, with the recent passing of Chadwick Boseman from cancer, I had only learned he had cancer from his passing. I had no idea he filmed 3-4 movies while battling cancer. I know this type of information is usually very personal, however, Stars can typically be open about that stuff. Along with that, the media tends to only focus on the marketing aspect of Stars, or what made them famous. It is important to always remember that they are people too and you never know what they have going on behind the cameras.
Hollywood, even within its own boundaries, was much more complex and contradictory than this.
Going off of the highlighted part above this, Hollywood is an extremely complex and controlling agency/organization. Theres been so many accusations of inappropriate things taking place and there have been stars who have been involved or even came forward to talk about it. Hollywood as a whole seems to have its own issues underneath all the money and fame.
know of them is what we see and hear before us. Yet the whole media construction of stars encourages us to think in· terms of 'really'
I think this is important because media portrays stars as best of the best, fashion, money, and fame. Media construction portrays stars so everyone wants to be like them. But we never really know what a famous person is really like at home by themselves.
In this article, I outlined a theoretical framework for understanding fan performancesof citizenship
It is apparent after reading this article that the world is a diverse place. Social media and general media play an aggressive role in changing the landscape and normalities that we are used to. Moving forward in the world, it will be interesting to see how everything will change, from civic engagement to ways of getting information across to younger generations. Fluidity will definitely be something we see more in the upcoming years.
describe this shift in modernlife as characterized by a sense of fluidity in which individuals easily choose betweenmultiple institutions, organizations, and groups, and fluidly move between those insti-tutional and group frameworks, resources, and requirements.2Both institutions andindividuals are liquid, changing quickly, and easily moving into new configurations(Bauman, 2007, p. 1). While in the past, individuals inherited membership withininstitutions through generations or by way of geographic limits, they now face choicesamong many institutions and groups.
I feel like this fluidity comes from how divided our world is when it comes to anything civic or political. So many people have such different views on every topic and that's where people have the opportunity to take little things they like from each group or institution. I feel like this fluidity has somewhat of a negative impact but also positive, some people are just followers and stick with the group or norm, but some individuals are totally on their own and represent their own views and thoughts.
oung people are increasingly getting their political informationfrom these satirical and humorous news programs (
I have actually noticed this in the past. You do not see the younger generation going on tv and watching the news anymore. I feel a majority stick to social media forms like Twitter, Facebook, and maybe even Instagram. it'll be interesting in the coming years to see how much politics is involved with social media as a way to have an effect on younger people.