week 6

Question 1

social surveillance
networked individualism
networked intimacy

Answer 1

period of conversations before hand allows users to build trust prior meeting

emphasis on an individual and its personal connections, based on shared interests without the limits of geographical boundaries –> extension of community/social network

networked public space in which people can disclose private/exclusive information

Question 2

liquid love
dating apps 
pure relationships 
- plastic sexuality 
- confluent love
risk aversion

Answer 2

liquid love = solidity and security once provided by life-long partnership has been liquified by rampant individualization and technological change –> internet dating

dating apps = interim-diaries through which individuals engage in strategic performances in pursuit of love, sex and intimacy

pure relationships = ideal type where relationship is based on sexual and emotional equality and continues as long as both parties derive mutual satisfaction

• plastic sexuality = greater sexual freedoms provided by modern societies
• confluent love = love that is active and contingent, and remains as long as both parties are invested in the relationship

risk aversion = people are seemingly aware that their partnership doesn’t last, therefore they are wary of investing too much in the partner

Question 3

media-polis
personal information space
media life perspective

Answer 3

media-polis = mediated space where media support and overarch the experiences and expressions of everyday life; a global public sphere –> cosmopolitanism = global connectedness

personal information space = people move through world, assembling a deeply individualized media system

media life perspective = offers a prediction and explanation of increasingly invisible media;

Question 4

Henry Jenkins, convergence culture

Answer 4

distinctions drawn all too easily between human and machine (article)
blurring boundaries between people as producers and consumers of information that is disseminated and and co-created across multiple platforms (one can be a content creator or a ‘‘looker’’, or both) (flow of content across multiple platforms)

Question 5

Media life

• society-centric
• media-centric

Answer 5

media abolishes space and time; media’s role in technological and social infrastructure; media is an extension of ourselves
- artifacts, activities and arrangements

society-centric = media reflects developments of social structure and cultural values 
media-centric = media drives and directs developments of social structure and cultural values

Question 6

Truman show disorder

parallax reality

Answer 6

a world characterized by ubiquitous and pervasive media that we are constantly and concurrently immersed in, we are the stars of it, it dominates and shapes all aspects of our lives

parallax reality: people in media life engage with reality, moving between idealism (what is perceived) and materialism (what is seemingly true), using tools and techniques of contemporary digital media to edit and remix both the perception and appearance of the particular reality

Question 7

social media logic, 4 aspects

Answer 7

1. programmability - ability of institutions to manipulate content to give audience an experience of flow –> platform can trigger and steer user’s creative and communicative tribute
2. popularity - mediagency & likeability –> algorithms, socio-economic components
3. connectivity - connect content/advertisement to citizens/consumers –> socio-technical affordance to connect content to user activities and advertisers, human connections
4. datafication - reaching mass audiences in real time –> quantifiability of the world: meta-data (data that provides info about other data), demographic, profiling data