I have been a member to many of the popular social networking sites. Facebook, Bebo, Myspace etc. However even though i tend to you use Facebook most of the time, Myspace is the social networking site that strikes me the most as being adaptable to almost anything and anyone, and it could be argued that many communities have been created via this inet webstie.
Myspace allows members to interact whether it is sending them a private message or posting a message on the wall - it seems to have the virtual structure of what Jones seems to believe that a community would not exist without one. In addition, people from all over the world can see your profile and if they want to become your friend they send a friend request. Myspace not only allows you to see your favorite artists, see what they have been up to and listen to their latest songs - Tulloch and Alvarado 'fan culture'. But it also allows users to create their own culture by uploading music or videos you have created, something in which Turkle would see as the inet allowing you to have this freedom.
Although, leading on from Turkle's idea of freedom, one negative aspect that can from social networking sites like Myspace is the sense of false identity. I have already expressed my views as to deal with this. It can be argued that as long as you use the inet safely and don't accept friend requests of people that you don't know then the things that seem 'dangerous' should not happen.
All in all Myspace is a world wide site that can positively create communities and already existing friendships closer together. You just have to be aware of the people that do mistreat the freedom of these sites.
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I'm pleased to see that in a lot of your posts Hannah you are pulling in material from lectures and readings from the current weeks and ones that are past. Your volume of posts is also fine and you are also commenting regularly on others' blogs - good for you! Keep doing all of this, show your knowledge of the unit ideas off as much as you can!
ReplyDeleteTo take things up a notch, try considering different users/consumers/produsers. It's easy to assume that all of the people who use the net are our own age (whatever that is) and have our own attitudes to the net, and are equally net-savvy, and able to access it, but that isn't so. So, for instance, how are networking sites, filesharing etc impacting on older/younger, less economically able, less-techno informed lives? Another technique for helping you get a 'bigger picture' is to ask., "why is this question important enough to be asked in the first place?" For instance, why do people care so much about defining what a community is?
i suppose i immediatley believe that everyone has the inet, however this is obv not true. members of the 'real'communities might not have access to the inet, no matter how old/young they are. That is why i believe that it is still good for 'real' communities to still exist.
ReplyDeleteHowever, i don't think people should care anymore about defining what community is, i think i said in one of my previous blogs it is interacting with others. This can therefore be applied to anything.