Private Thoughts, Public Spaces... by Alexandra Macridis

Blogging, social media and other participatory forms of communicating have changed the way we as internet users see the world around us. We're now not only interacting with friends and family but also with a much wider community in mind. Users of paritipatory communication platforms such as Pinterest, Facebook, Wordpress and Instagram are providing information that is recieved by not only there follows but other users.

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What is a blog?

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Blogs provide a platform for you to regular engage and interact through written work.

What is instagram?

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Instagram describes itself as a ‘fast, beautiful and fun’ way of sharing your life with friends and family. It’s a photo-sharing social media app that allows users to take and upload photos from their smartphone camera, add filters, captions and location info and then share them with ‘followers’(Donnelly, T. (2013).

References

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George, C. (2014 ). The Rise of the Snapchat Celebrity. from https://medium.com/social-media-lessons/the-rise-of-the-snapchat-celebrity-93261a14b32f
WCPO. (2012 ). Pinterest: How does it work? from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3o61zP1J_k

Beginners Tutorial. (2008). What is Facebook? from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5gtN16gOr8

WPMU DEV. (2013). What is a Blog? from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjwUHXoi8lM

Digital Charlotte. (2013). What is Instagram? from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N92MQ9o4Fe0

Donnelly, T. (2013). What is Instagram? from http://www.whistleout.com.au/MobilePhones/Guides/what-is-instagram

Jenkins, H. (2006). Confronting the challenges of Participatory culture: Media Education for the 21st Century. from http://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/free_download/9780262513623_Confronting_the_Challenges.pdf

Forleo, M. (2013). How to Use Social Media from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMOySak3Ul0

Today Tonight. (2013). The Impacts of Food Blogging from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9kegndDz74

Alexandra_Mac — 2014-06-07 06:07:10 UTC

It is fairly safe to say that in the developed world everyone uses social media, it's where news breaks first, its where people communicate and how things go viral. Pariticpatory communication platforms such as those represented by blogging and social media tools go through indidivual phases of massive growth

(George, C. (2014).

What is Pinterest?

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Pinterest allows users to visually bookmark ideas and share these ideas with other users. It is a visually stimulating participatory platform which allows users to interact through images.

What is Facebook?

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Facebook is perhaps the most well-known social media platform. Providing users with the most active way to communicate with friend, family and other individuals through a online platform.

How has participatory communication changed society?

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The growth of Facebook, Instagram and other social media platforms has presented a growth in society that reflects the overall rise of participatory communication. Those who utilise and interact with these platforms are adapting to communicating and engaging with others through a more open and interactive environment. Users of these platforms are becoming the producers of culture and in-turn allowing the development of an active audience drawn to specific culture product.

Participatory communication has also changed the way we interact with online communication tools. Many of us do not just post whatever we feel. We each individually censor and personally critique what we wish to allow as content for others to view. This is due to nature of the online society that has been created at present. We no longer want to allow others into a online world that we have not created and developed to meet our own personal needs.

What platforms are utilised?

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Common blogging and social media platforms include Pinterest, Facebook, Wordpress, Instagram and YouTube.

What is participatory culture

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Activities which transform the experience of media consumption into the production of texts and new forms of particular media, blurring the boundary between producers and consumers. This idea has been associated subsequently with internet technologies such as YouTube which enables users to appropriate and re-fashion media content (Jenkins, H. (2006).

Uses of blogging and social media at present

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Blogging and social media has become a platform for community engagement, cultural product sharing, information sharing, private communication and engagement and also a means for company and organisational development and engagement.

Societies interaction with participatory culture

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Society and the interaction society has with participatory culture is seen through our active engagement with blogging and social media. Many of us utulise social media on a daily basis to interact with the community around us. From checking Facebook and Instagram of a morning to updating our status when something may occur within our lives. Society now revolves around the idea of participatory communication.

The future of participatory culture in our present society

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Due to the high level of blogging and social media interaction society is presently utilising, the idea of participatory culture will continue to develop and further grow. Society will always provide participants that wish to engage and involve themselves actively with the culture presented by producers of culture.

The growth of blogging and social media celebrities

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Instagram and Wordpress have developed a growth in the idea of everyday celebrities. People who are interacting with participatory platforms such as Instagram, are allowing other users to enter a specific environment which they have developed to entertain and draw in a certain audience or demographic. These users who are actively engaging with the cultural products created by these producers of content are affectively establishing a following and developing a idealist relationship with the producers.

Food bloggers are perhaps the best example of blogging and social media participants who actively developed into societies perception of a online celebrity. Now more than ever we interact on a daily basis with these participatory celebrities whether it is through their Instagram feed or through reading and utilising there recipes which we may have found from their blog. The idea of food bloggers and participatory culture is one that best encapsulates the growth of blogging and social media celebrities.

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Affect of food blogging

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