Each group will focus on a different part of the text to identify main claims and evidence. One group member should compose the notes in a response to this post. One group member will be focused on sharing the questions raised by the group about the claims or evidence. The other group members will share the group’s assessment of claims and evidence Respond as a group to this post.
Crafting a Profile, Creating an Identity Performance (43-47)
Summary:
-Girl took a quiz about what kind of drug you are and she chose cocaine and her dad had to talk to her about what the effect of that was and how it may come across online to other people
-On Myspace and Facebook a lot of people fake information (ie. age,relationships)
Its assumed they are lying
Main claims: “Many teens post information on social media they think is funny or intended to give a particular impression to a narrow audience without considering how this same content might be read out of context”(44)
Evidence: Cocaine quiz- “what drug are you? Quiz”
Structure: Gave a story then she gave her claim which was supported by evidence
Question: have you ever taken a quiz and posted it? and would that go along with her evidence or support her evidence?
Claim: based on the claim do you think that we actually post false information because we think it’s funny?
Main Claim: “Instead they are simply refusing to play by the rules of self presentation as defined by these sites”(46)
Evidence: They see no reason to provide accurate information, They lie about age(fit age requirements), relationship status, where they live(don’t post where they actually are), how much they make
Structure: Gives a lot of information then has a counter argument with her own opinion
Question: have you ever lied to improve yourself on social media? and do you think its a major problem?
Evidence: do you think there is a need to lie on social media?
Main Claim: We hang out on social media rather than in person “bedroom culture” (46)
Evidence: Decorate online self presentation using a variety of social media
Structure: Her main claim at the beginning then shares some information/ evidence and then has an analysis about bedroom culture at the end
Question: do you feel you hang out on social media without interaction in person?
evidence: do you know all of the people you are friends with on your social media?
main argument is that
-teens alter their identity online to be their best self
-teens post for a select audience
Group 4
– Main claim: what people post makes impressions on others
Page 48 paragraph 1, “what…others.”
Page 50 paragraph 2 ” What…context.”
Gratification based on likes and comments
Comments on examples based on people… our group can’t relate with many of the people that are represented in this section, and find the representations rather extreme
– Do these claims and evidence relate to our generation now?
We as a group discussed several things. We talked about audience and context and how most of the time the intended audience and context matters just as much as the audience who is reached by the person using social media. People use social media to portray versions of themselves that may not always be completely true but usually are variations of themselves, the degree of variation can sometimes vary from person to person. Social media can also be perceived through different lenses than it would have originally been perceived through. We also talked about how public versus private profiles can change how you perceive the consequences of a social media post and it can change how liberal you are with your posts.
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