post modern explanations

• Locke & Pascko


  positive is that you can construct your identity and free yourself from discrimination

  Negativities that sexual predators can be online such as grooming, catfishing, or stalking
• Locke &Pascko


  identity can be created variously such as Facebook, showing people can post pictures and videos and getting likes filters on Snapchat

  Construct different identities, online and off-line suggest, for example, catfish is a TV series that couples develop relationships online but have never met

  Example is love at first sight TV show on BBC iPlayer, which zara McDermott hosts people who have developed connections online meet in person for the first time for example, there was a couple who kwame and Jess developed a connection online for five years and never met until the show
• Case


  Facebook is replacing traditional autobiographies that describe the life of a person because Facebook has an ongoing autobiography which has on this day section. This occurred or even even on Snapchat. It has memories and on TikTok even has on this day you posted

  Social media sites make every mistake visible. For example, young people can be problematic, and it has a record of any silly decisions or night out that they don’t totally disappear from the Internet, even though they might disappear from your mind.
• Case


  Facebook is like a diary when looking back at your old poster are valuable of memories, but can also be negative
• Hart


  traditional interpretations to see post on Facebook as trivial or superficial, but on Facebook it just status updates it can be culturally significant
• example of how online and off-line identity overlap

  Paris Brown was a youth police commissioner, who, when she was younger, posted, racist and antigay tweets on Twitter so when she joined the police her online identity, which was the tweets overlapped with her off-line identity because she ended up getting fired due to the police finding her racist tweets when she was younger. She posted these.
• Foucault 


  surveillance is effective means of regulating behaviour and reducing crime because the person knows they’re being watched, so they are less likely to commit a crime because they know their chances of being caught higher

  People controlled through increasing amounts of information being collected, and building a profile of their behaviour

  Supermarkets for example, collect information about tastes, et cetera
• The global media impact study – Miller


  Ao1 & Ao3 for everything in globalisation

  Use and consequences of social media for people all around the world using ethnography

  Investigated how people use social media today over appeared of 15 months and the impact of peoples relationships, especially the family and how it was used in institutions, such as education and religion, and also the current state of the digital divide
• Miller- why we post website

  15 discoveries made

  Social media doesn’t detract from education. It is education because in Brazil due to limited access of formal schooling, people tend to YouTube for education.

  Created new spaces for groups between public and private such as in Trinidad. Media is useful for combining people representing differently relationship such as family, friends, work colleagues
• Miller – why we post website

  Social media has huge impact on general relations through using fake accounts such as in Brazil. Fake accounts are popular, but people have a second and third account for flirting.

  Memes have become a moral panic of online life, such as in chile social media is a place to express views via Memes