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Summaries galore!
First up, Dana Boyd‘s piece on SNSes (Social Network Sites: Public, Private, or What?). I will somehow relate this to SNL’s Weekend Update with Seth Myers, more specifically his piece about Michael Phelps, in class.
Boyd tries to bridge the generational gap between youth who are growing up with the Internet entrenched in their lives, and older people/educators. She doesn’t want conservative educators to think of “social technologies as a product of the devil.”
Back in the day, kids hung out at the park/mall/cafe – all unmediated publics. Now, more hanging out occurs on SNSes, aka mediated publics, which are set apart by 4 things:
- Persistence. Unless deleted, online data sticks around for decades.
- Searchability. A few keywords later, your mom knows where you are and what you’re doing.
- Replicability. Copy + paste is crazy effective. Content is easily doctored.
- Invisible audiences. Who is really looking at the information?
