https://padlet.com/qasimkhan125/hnh7x6jt4ndo en-us 2018-05-11 08:18:42 UTC 2025-11-02 00:02:23 UTC hello@padlet.com qasimkhan125 https://padlet.com/qasimkhan125/hnh7x6jt4ndo/wish/259872865 Cyber-utopianism – the belief that online communication is in itself emancipatory, and that the Internet favors the oppressed rather than the oppressor.

Nicholas Negroponte: points out divisions in society in which the web can allow us to overcome for we are socialising within a "digital neighbourhood" where the concept of physical space is no longer an issue. Negroponte also believes that web 2.0 acts as a social leveler for no matter what you identify as the digital space allows us to connect, explore our identity and diversify.

David Gaunlett: supports the creative outlet and benefits of the web and believes that "making is connecting" he views platforms such as Instagram and YouTube allows us to create and share with those who are of like mindedness. He also believes that the creative control and freedom to self express web 2.0 gives to us means that we are able to reach our true creative potential.

Harry Jenkins: associates 'participatory culture" with web 2.0. Participatory culture is where traditional media producers are replaced by a new creative generation of prosumers. Jenkins believes that web 2.0 possesses the ability to democratise our society for we won't exposed to manipulative media texts for our voices are heard in the new digital landscape. Web 2.0 gives us the ability to appropriate mainstream media e.g YouTube parodies those who are adept with media can also use it to reshape mainstream ideology forming "creative scaffolding". 

Owen Jones: is an example of the previously mentioned "creative scaffolding" for his expressed views on the reality show called "Jeremy Kyle" he believes the show gives the audience their dose of "chav" hatred but online we can see individuals appropriating the show such as Cassetboy's creating a remix which serves as a scathing review of Jeremy Kyle.

Sherry Turkle: Finds that web 2.0 allows us to explore and find more exacting identities through things such as 3D virtual world, second life which allows us to create a mediated identity through avatar selection and how you choose to represent yourself for we are unshackled in cyberspace and allowed to perform versions of ourselves that are exploratory, idealised or controversial.

Anthony Giddens: believes that this braver new world is moving us much closer to a pluralist society a post traditional society  which allows us to have the capacity to engage in a "self reflexive project of the self". In his view the media no longer dictate a fixed ideas of identity.]]> 2018-05-11 08:20:45 UTC https://padlet.com/qasimkhan125/hnh7x6jt4ndo/wish/259872865 qasimkhan125 https://padlet.com/qasimkhan125/hnh7x6jt4ndo/wish/259872871 Andrew Keen, someone who the people of the internet has labelled the Antichrist, has stated an argument that social media has taken control of other peoples lives and not in a good way. He does say that is hypocritical of him to say since he uses Twitter and has used Skype to conduct an interview on the matter of digital narcissism. He just thinks that the internet should be more suitable and habitable for others to use it appropriately.

He believes that the people are retreating from the real world and are becoming more narcissistic towards social media. People are no longer communicating with each other in real life other than on online such as Facebook and Twitter and even then they talk about the most pointless and meaningless things such as what they had for the breakfast or how they are feeling about the weather. People are even posting pictures of their private life and talking about it thinking it won't come back to haunt them because they have just showed what they are like at home which they cannot take back

I have to agree with Andrew as more and more people are becoming more narcissistic towards technology and the internet that they shut off from the outside world and become too involved with the internet. I am a hypocrite when I say that since I use the internet but I'm just saying that people shouldn't use it excessively that it takes over their whole life. Some people are on the internet 24 hours a day which is not healthy at all and gives them problems later on in the future when their interacting with real people. Andrew Keen makes a valid point and if people take what he says seriously and ease up on their use of the internet, they can have a much more fulfilling social life.]]> 2018-05-11 08:20:48 UTC https://padlet.com/qasimkhan125/hnh7x6jt4ndo/wish/259872871 qasimkhan125 https://padlet.com/qasimkhan125/hnh7x6jt4ndo/wish/259877652 Sherry Turkle talks about the media and how people are using it. She has stated that while it good for people to have phones and be connected with each other online, people are abusing this to a bigger extent. She has said that while people are using their phones they dis-connect from the outside world and from other people because it allows them to ignore whatever they are doing currently to be in their own personal world. She said that people have texted and send emails during corporate meanings, shopping online etc. She even showed the audience in her TED talk, a picture of her daughter and friends together but on their phones and completely and acting like no one is there, they have become completely involved with their phones and that is the classic example of most teenage friends who hang out but really only uses their phone.

She had revealed the fact that an 18 year old boy who uses texting for most of his life had said to her "...someday, someday, but certainly not now, i would like to know how to have a conversation...", this just shows how young people are deviating away from their social life. Sherry has said that texting, emailing and posting allows people to present themselves in a way, allowing people to edit themselves and change things about them, not too little, not too much, just right which is known as the Goldilocks effect.

It is due to peoples insecurities that other people are not listening to their problems or taking it seriously enough that they have Facebook and Twitter to express their thought and feelings, just to have someone to respond back to them]]> 2018-05-11 08:49:11 UTC https://padlet.com/qasimkhan125/hnh7x6jt4ndo/wish/259877652 qasimkhan125 https://padlet.com/qasimkhan125/hnh7x6jt4ndo/wish/259881266 Sherry Turkle: Making a 180 from her original cyber utopia view Turkle now believes that we are in an "always on" culture and this draws out the fake connections seen on social media such as on Facebook we could have 200 friends but keeping these mediated connections comes at the heavy cost of our real world identities.

Cass Sunstein: Believes that the web and how companies such as Facebook having an algorithm so they can target ads specifically on our interests has in fact turned us into commodities to be bought or sold. Sunstein also suggests that our online choices reflect our personal, political or ideological bias. excluding ideas that might challenge these views he thinks that the internet just acts as an 'empty echo chamber' where we are doing nothing but reinforces our own already held beliefs, for if you show sympathy to left or right wing agenda then that is what your feed becomes flooded with further reinforces your idea and beliefs. 

Alan Martin: believes that 2.0 ]]> 2018-05-11 09:09:09 UTC https://padlet.com/qasimkhan125/hnh7x6jt4ndo/wish/259881266