Contemporary Media Issues

In todays session we had a discussion about identity and what we believe identity is. As a group we said it is what you’re per received as, also how we represent ourselves to others. Most people use the internet as an online representations of their identity; Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. People also make avatars which are mediated versions of themselves and their lives. Using social networking websites people can create identity and have online relationships; the relationships can be distant but also entertaining. But avatars are fictionalised, after the discussion about identity we then moved on. We moved onto watching a presentation about identity, throughout the presentation there were quotes from  Sherry Turkle, also there was an introduction about Pierre Levy who came up with collective intelligence. 

We then learnt about when social networking came into the world and in different forms; MySpace (2004) and then Facebook and Twitter. After the presentation we had to come up with a person and create a Twitter account for the character, the name I gave my character  was Daisy Poppy. Once I had created the Twitter account for Daisy I then created a Weavr for her, on the weavr I answered personal questions about the character e.g. activities she likes, emotions, locations where she enjoys. After I had entered the information I then gave the weavr permission to post tweets on the Twitter account. The weavr goes around and collects information and tweets the information. Within a couple of minutes Daisy had tweeted 7 times and had 4 followers, the following week we had to see how many followers each character had to see who got the most followers.


Daisy Poppy Twitter