https://padlet.com/ab98326/upv39ciudh9g Made with a warm hug en-us 2018-05-10 08:18:35 UTC 2025-11-28 11:20:28 UTC hello@padlet.com ab98326 https://padlet.com/ab98326/upv39ciudh9g/wish/259546757 - We the audience are media producers too. Social media, user-generated content, web 2.0 ect now allow us to construct and circulate our own personal and social identities in new and diverse ways. 
- There are positive and negative effects on the impact of technology dominating out every movement. (positive = utopianism, negative = dystopiansim)
- Cyber-utopianism shows that the internet is a driver for social good, allowing society to become more inclusive. 
-Nicholas Negroponte said that in the early days on the internet it was impossible to predict the impact it would have. He highlighted the potential social division the internet could over-come. At the same time he argued that we would 'socialise in digital neighbourhoods in which physical space would become irrelevant'. 
- The world has become a smaller space due to the internet. No matter who you were or what identity you associated with, the web would give us a space to explore, connect and diversify. 
- David Gauntlett - Talks about the benefits of the web, platforms like instagram and youtube offers us the opportunity to share out output with like-minded people. It enabled us to express who we are and achieve out creative potential.

]]> 2018-05-10 08:46:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ab98326/upv39ciudh9g/wish/259546757 ab98326 https://padlet.com/ab98326/upv39ciudh9g/wish/259548334 Andrew Keen, within an interview, and his book 'How today's digital revolution is dividing, diminishing, and disorienting us', talks about how he is trying to warn against the "loss of privacy of the inner self" which is caused by social media.
Keen recognises that the internet is the 'dominant reality' of social, cultural, and economic life in the 21st Century, but he doesn't think that people should accept it so unthinkingly.

Humans, as a species, have always been narcissistic and have suffered from an excessive love of the self, but social media enables itself to be a personalised broadcast platform that perpetuates, amplifies, and exaggerates narcissism, and instead of people interacting with and participating in social things outside of the internet, such as reading, watching films, listening to music or other people, people are instead preoccupied with broadcasting themselves online, which is deeply narcissistic, and doesn't reflect well on individuals or the collectively as a species. People spend their time broadcasting personal, inane, pointless, or even self-destructive material online, which 'destroys their inner world' and strips away their privacy. He believes that social media isn't even particularly social, and is just an aggregation of individuals.

He believes that future generations could end up becoming more aggressive due to the content people are able to access online, and the line between online and reality blurring. The London Riots of 2011 are an reflection of the atomised, highly individualised and often destructive nature of social media.

His ideal vision for social networks would be for them to be significant to enable us to connect with people that we wouldn't otherwise connect with (people that aren't loved ones or friends), and to also maintain the physical and to allow people to understand that really meaningful friendships can't really be replicated online, and that the complexity of physical relationships of friendship needs to be developed offline.]]> 2018-05-10 08:57:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ab98326/upv39ciudh9g/wish/259548334 ab98326 https://padlet.com/ab98326/upv39ciudh9g/wish/259551174 - We depend on technology for all forms of connection with other people.
-We rely on technology for three reasons:
1) we can put our attention into what we like
2) we will always be heard
3) we will never have to be alone
- By getting so deeply involved with technology, we prevent ourselves from self-reflecting. This is due to us presenting out ideal self, who we want people to see/who we want to be, instead of our real selves.
-The goldilocks effect: in the age of technology we want to control the amount of human connection we experience. We want to manage how far or how close our relationships with people are, they shouldn't be too close or too far. 
- What is to come? There are now social robots that are programmed to be compassionate and understanding of the human experience, but they simply cant. ]]> 2018-05-10 09:16:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ab98326/upv39ciudh9g/wish/259551174