COMM 1000 11 17 2014 Social Media We Cannot Stop Communicating Types of Social Media Services o Bookmarking Sites and Social News Sites Reddit o Blogs and Microblogs Twitter Tumblr o Social Networking Sites Facebook Google LinkedIn o Shopping Sites Amazon o Multimedia Sharing YouTube Instagram Vine Flickr o Virtual Worlds World of Warcraft Second Life o Social Media sites are used by companies as much as o creating a feedback channel for major corporations and people traditional media Social Media Explained o Different social media things with doughnuts Computer Mediated Communication CMC o The exchange of messages between two or more people through digital media o Includes Digital Communications The Internet The World Wide Web Online Multiplayer Games o CMC is pervasive and rapidly expanding Media Deficit Approach o CMC lacks immediacy and rich message cues which lowers the quality of communication immediacy feeling of the person being right in front of you Media Augmentation Approach o Individuals use CMC to complement and add to face to face communication video on how social media affects us now Social Presence Theory o Media exist on a continuum from low to high levels of social presence Social presence is defined as the degree of awareness an individual has of the other person in the interaction Email Text Communication Live Text Chatting Audio Communication Face To Face Communication Emails texting on the phone in person Media Richness Theory information o Evaluates different media based on its potential to convey o Rich Media are more capable of promoting learning in a given period of time than Lean Media o Unaddressed Documents Written Addressed Documents 2 Way Radio Telephone Video Conferencing Face To Face At its core Social Media shows how we re all unique just like o instagram video on the people taking pictures of similar everybody else things Identity and the Internet o Spoofing Catfishing Faking your identity o Phishing Luring users into giving up account information o Avatars Online digital personas o Cyberbullying Using the internet to cause harm to others Social Media is powerful o Handle with care 7 ways to be insufferable on facebook o The Brag My life is great o The Cryptic Cliffhanger Something Good or bad is happening o The Literal Status Update I ll just tell you exactly what I m doing o The Inexplicably Public Private Message Oooh drama o The Out of Nowhere Oscar Acceptance Speech Thanks to everyone now like me o The Incredibly Obvious Opinion Jumping on the News Bandwagon o The Step Towards Enlightenment Don t believe everything you read on the internet Abraham Lincoln o Jimmy Fallon and Justin Timberlake hashtag video humblebrag o Just in case you think all this has gone to my head within 36 hours of winning the Oscar I was back home plunging a clogged toilet Lee Unkrick Toy Story 3 Director o Man this is SO unfair Why did the lambo dealership not tell me I d get pulled over at least once a week in this car Time for a corolla lol Tila Tequila Paul Miller A Year without Internet At First It was a Solution o I learned to appreciate an diea that can t be summed up in a blog post but instead needs a novel length exposition By pulling away from the echo chamber of internet culture I found my ideas branching out in new directions I felt different and a little eccentric and I liked it o Without But Then A New Problem o As it turned out a dozen letters a week could prove to be as overwhelming as a hundred emails a day And that was the way it went in most aspects of my life A good book took motivation to read whether I had the internet as an alternative or not Leaving the house to hang out with people took just And Finally o I d read enough blog posts and magazine articles and books about how the internet makes us lonely or stupid or lonely and stupid that I d begun to believe them I wanted to figure out what the internet was doing to me so I could fight back But the internet isn t and individual pursuit it s something we do with each other The internet is where people are o When I return 11 17 2014 11 17 2014