https://padlet.com/jheancapitan/wn5t0eqcneo9 en-us 2018-05-11 08:14:46 UTC 2018-05-29 11:00:35 UTC hello@padlet.com jheancapitan https://padlet.com/jheancapitan/wn5t0eqcneo9/wish/259872245 Cyber Utopianism is the belief that online communication in itself is empancipatory - giving freedom to individuals.

Online media texts offer users to create a mediated / self constructed avatar in cyberspace in opposition to a restrictive real world.
This is seen in the form of Facebook, Instagram and Youtube in which users are free to perform versions of themselves that are exploratory

Examples :
- Transgender Youtubers who challenge old media stereotypes of gender
- Facebook groups like Lad Bible

Theorists :
Anthony Giddens suggest brave new world moves us closer to a truly pluralist society - post traditional world that offers its citizen the capacity to engage in the 'self reflexive project of self'
In his view media no longer dictate fixed ideas of identity but reflect and enable a rapid increase in change in sense of self, in which gender, sexuality, ability and ethnicity are fluid and performed rather than given.

Overall frees audience from the norms and values of traditional society 

 ]]> 2018-05-11 08:16:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jheancapitan/wn5t0eqcneo9/wish/259872245 jheancapitan https://padlet.com/jheancapitan/wn5t0eqcneo9/wish/259872251 What is it?
Digital Narcissism is the broadcast and amplification of the self that leads to obsession and narcissism of the image you create online.

Theorist Andrew Keen (author of 'Digital Vertigo') says: that social media has a 'radically individualised nature' meaning people on social media share, post and broadcast things in order to look impressive and bolster self-confidence. For photographic social media especially, the comfort of 'likes' can numb self-awareness and self-absorption becomes acceptable. 

Real Media Examples:
Linking back to photographic social media, Instagram allows you to have you're own profile to construct a self-created fantasy vision of yourself. Hashtags such as '#like4like' has over 400 million results meaning that so many people want the comfort of likes on their own pictures further boosting their own self-esteem, looking for likes from strangers online therefore feeding into the digital narcissism theory.]]> 2018-05-11 08:16:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jheancapitan/wn5t0eqcneo9/wish/259872251 jheancapitan https://padlet.com/jheancapitan/wn5t0eqcneo9/wish/259873575 Media Connectedness is the TED talk by Sherry Turkle in which she talks around people rely on texting rather than human interaction and conversation.

Throughout the Ted Talk, Turkle's examples are based around texting, emails and posting on social media, talking about how people don't provide attention to one another, but rather remove themselves from their situations and go onto their phones. 

Turkle came up with an effect called the 'Goldilocks Effect', which links to how much people distance their selves through technology: 'Not too close, not too far, just right'. 

Turkle states how she studied multiple people and how they would approach her with things like 'What's wrong with Conversation?', in which she explored how in 'real time' the problem is you cannot control what you'll say; while online/through technology within texts or emails - it allows people to present themselves in the way they want to be presented as there are edit/delete and retouch features.

Conversations with each other are used to learn how to converse with ourselves. Conversations matter as they can compromise our capacity for self reflection - thus a good skill for kids.

'No one is listening' another quote from Turkle's TED talk. She states when it feels like no one is listening, it then becomes appealing to use social media as social media is an automatic listener. Users become tempted by machines that offer companionship. However robots can't emphasise.]]> 2018-05-11 08:25:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jheancapitan/wn5t0eqcneo9/wish/259873575