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Lecture 1: Media and Personal Identity (Nov 7) - -watch
- Media - -a tool or technology that channels communication between the
sender and the receiver
- How does media influence our understanding of ourselves?
Draw from the case studies to answer this question. The three case studies is
the studies of pain from the readings, the images of the fetus, and health
tracks - -1. Pain- pain that person feels shifts depending on the kinds of
charts you are given
2. Fetus- imaging technology shifted the mother-children relationship from
being inseparable to separating them. dominant images of babies as their
own
3. Health tracks- mediates your relationship with yourself and how you think
about yourself depending on health trackers
- Aspirational video by matthew Frost - -so much focus on the narcissistic
culture, selfie culture
mental disorder
- Teh medium is the message by bbc radio - -
- Social effects of social media - -
- Narcissistic Culture - -view themselves as quite powerful, important,
attractive, need to be confirmed by other people and that's what they use
other people for
high impulsivity and self-esteem
- Social Comparison - -evaluating one's abilities and opinions by comparing
oneself with others
Very prominent in social media since one can track other people's activities
24/7
- Context Collapse - -when different personalities or different lives have
different contexts and end up smashing up against each other
- Front stage/back stage - -important part of goffmans theory is the
distinction between the back, your real or authentic self, and the front, how
we project ourselves.
the border between is clearly delineated.
, - "The truth about Selfie Culture" by Michelle Moses - -selfie culture is
traced back to the self-esteem movement,
"In order to free ourselves from all these social problems, we just had to
believe we were special and amazing"
Parenting style created impossible expectations
- "Social-media outrage is collaposing our worlds" by C. Freidersdorf - -All
these different identities that we have, separating work from personal live,
that american's value are crashing down into each other due to social media
- Three views of communication technologies and how do they differ from
each other - -Technological determinism, social constructivism, and
technological affordances
- Technological determinism - -The idea that technology determines our
behavior.
"The medium is the message"
- Social Constructivism - -How one uses something creates the experience
they get out of it
ex: usage of facebook creates the depressed people who use it passively and
the happy people that use it more interactively
- technological affordances - -Certain kinds of of behaviors are encouraged
or discouraged through the kinds of mediums we use
Twitter not creating hate groups, sets up encourages more types of hate
groups online
- "How Facebook makes us unhappy" Maria Konnikova - -Social media has
all these negative social effects, technological determinism argument
Two responses to Facebook
Social Constructivism- people who are more depressed tend to get on
Facebook more maybe
Also depends on people's usage of facebook that depends on what they get
out of it
- Polymedia - -the environment of affordances that characterizes new media
Results in a choice of medium/platform, which creates many different
consequences
- How does Polymedia affect our communication online - -Depending on the
platform one uses, many things change
-The audience the person intends to use
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