Rosen then makes the connection from online identity to online communities. She notes what characterizes these online communities, depends on a number of things. Age, demographics, location and, pastimes. She states that today’s social networking sites organize themselves around the “person,” how we define ourselves online with millions of individual profiles that list interests, hobbies and the things that are important to us. She also explains how these online communities have affected our relationships in the real world. She gives the example of two users who announced their engagement over Facebook and the repercussions both on and offline when they announced it was not going to happen.…
In the essay “Facebook Multiplies Genders but Offers Users the Same Three Tired Pronouns”, Dennis Baron talks about the issues regarding Facebook’s gender identification features. The point of this article is to talk about the fact that Facebook has realized that gender identification can be complicated and isn't as simple as it used to be. He also talks about the fact that only the same three pronouns exist for the 58 different genders. The topic of this essay is different genders and the few pronouns used to describe them.…
The digital world, especially its omnipresence and highly structured environment, has introduced a new sort of rhetoric which holds a significant effect on identity. Digital rhetoric theory has come about as a result of communication occurring via various electric formats (Plessis 2013 p. 2). The Internet functions as a source which promotes “rethinking of identity as anonymous, fluid, and unfixed” because of its collaborative nature (Hess 2014 p. 3). Users are always interacting with the readily available information by creating something new, building on the contributions of others, or merely witnessing this online expansion. The only constant of the Internet is the fact that it is constantly changing. Because the recent digital world develops…
The Experiences of living in the global village can begin to challenge and have a negative impact on an individual's values, beliefs and attitudes. Living in the global poses challenges such as the differentiating values of mateship, traditions and the notion of fairness and justice. These aspects are highlighted in the film The Castle (1997) directed by Rob Sitch. On the other hand The article Digital natives, Digital immigrants (2001) written by Marc Prensky highlights the complex dynamics of the ever changing technological forum, students of the 21st century thrive in.…
The Internet is playing a very important role in the evolution of digital technology, but although it has seen remarkable growth over the last few years, its dispersion remains highly asymmetric. It is widely believed that the so called information age will bring radical change and improvement, and countries all over the world are busy with constructing the necessary infrastructure, the "information superhighways," in order to meet the challenges of the information society of the twenty-first century. Kwame Anthony Appiah’s essay “Making Conversation” tell us about human’s conversation is better expressing themselves in person. Marshall Poe said in his article “The Hive” talks about the evolution of Wikipedia and how people are interacting online. The internet serves a purpose for research, schoolwork, and connections. However, the result from the internet age is loosing communication,lack of social interaction, and the unreliable nature of websites.…
Cultural identity is the identity of a group or culture, or of an individual, as far as one is influenced by one's belonging to a group or culture. In recent decades, a new form of identification has emerged which breaks down the understanding of the individual as a coherent whole subject into a collection of various cultural identifiers. These cultural identifiers may be the result of various conditions including: location, gender, race, history, nationality, language, sexuality, religious beliefs, aesthetics and ethnicity. The divisions between cultures can be very fine in some parts of the world, especially places such as the United States, where the population is ethnically diverse and social unity is based primarily on common social values and beliefs.…
“The growth in internet use has affected cultures around the world, leading to a westernised, homogenous world culture.”…
How does social media affect the creation of news article in an American culture? In the twenty-first century, more than half of the world’s population spend most of their time online surfing the internet. Each person who spend a lot of time on the internet owns at least one social media account in the cyber world. The cyber world consists of many different websites but the most frequently used are facebook, twitter, and youtube and these websites all originate from the United States and happened to spread widely around the world.…
are unfair ,and unruly. Ultimately people should be allowed to feel normal no matter what their…
Our life standards have been improved a lot since the Industrial Revolution, which opened a new era of modern technology, however, by the same time, it also changes some basic concepts in our daily life and some of the transformations are not so satisfactory. From my point of view, the concept of “authenticity” has been challenged in many different ways and brings about some very troublesome problems to society. Since we all live in a real world which is based on relationships between people, the virtual world on internet, for example, has interfere with those kinds of regular connections. I believe we should keep emphasizing the importance of the authenticity and do not recognize those virtual stuff as a new kind of authenticity. As topics raised by Sherry Turkle, a professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology at MIT, in her book , “authenticity” is one of the most basic issues related to technology advances and everyone should consider how to treat it.…
Using social media for publicizing any business is a smart idea, in today's world everyone uses social media sites to interact, whether it is for personal use or for business purposes. Facebook can be to advertise, you can add visual product information, it allows for people to leave comments about the product, it can also provide a networking community for other social media sites. Extra exposure (especially positive ) is great for any business, most companies today have twitter and Facebook accounts, they provide product information, coupons, location information, contacts, and there is a way the people can give instant feedback. Social media advertising is the way of the future, I can't name any business that does not use social…
The online world today has introduced adolescents to new cultures, interactions and views. The way a teen becomes friends with a person has changed from the face to face contact in everyday life, to switching on the phone and reading a peers online status. There are still some processes a young adult goes through to keeps a friendship lasting online as they would in person. Social media can open doors to sharing opinions, and help an adolescent discover their identity and build self-esteem. Some adolescents have built a false identities, but one would be surprised on the reason. The attachment to social media can inhibit a teen from practicing their interpersonal skills, which can impact their future as a working professional. The beginning of online friendships has truly changed the way a teen interacts with their peers and develops their own self-image.…
Based on your earliest memories as a young child and then as a student in…
The internet is a worldwide system of computers that are connected to one another. It is a public, cooperative, uncensored and self-sustaining facility (Harris, 2007) and more than two billion people have access to the system. White (2006) states that it is an “information superhighway” and part of the “global village” (p. 83). The internet’s sinister side is full of uncensored pornography and recipes for bomb making. However the internet is also used for educational information and social and practical issues of the community. This essay will describe a concern which has become a problem for users of the internet, how it has become a concern, why it is a concern and who suffers as a result of this concern.…
In a world dominated by social media, it is so easy to assume we know someone based on the pages they like on Tumblr, or perhaps the amount of friends they have on Facebook. When we present ourselves to the online world, it can create this dangerous collection of meaningless data about ourselves, rarely giving meaningful context to who we are. Although the world seems more connected than ever through this technological revolution, we couldn’t be more ill-informed and disconnected from who each other is than ever. Who we are as opposed to who we are online is completely idealistic, causing a rift between those who genuinely know us and those who think they…