PSY427 LEC 9 - Socia Media

Social Media

• Internet-based, disentrained, and persistent channels of mass personal communication facilitating perceptions of interactions among users, deriving value primarily from user-generated content.

“Masspersonal” Communication

• A convergence of mass and interpersonal communication.

Purposes of Social Media

• Digital applications

• Civic space

• Dialogical transmission systems

• User-generated content

• Self-created and self-managed profiles

• Social Surveillance

• Communicative networks

• Publish, the filter model

• Produsers — producers and users combines to one word

Dialogical Transmission Systems

• Systems that prioritize too much dialogue.

Publish, Then Filter Model

• When journalist takes a newsworthy event and filters it to create a story and publish it.

• Filter story before publishing

Benefits of Social Media

• Time and space compression

• Cultural participation and autonomy

• Collaboration

• Connection: new intimacies, solidarities and affinities

• Empathic extension and knowledge sharing

• Political mobilization and resistance

Hazards of Social Media

• Social interaction overload

• Information pollution

• Involuntary surveillance

• Publicizing of the private sphere

• Normalization of virulence and toxicity

• Reproduction/reinforcement of social inequalities

• Social dependency

• Social comparsion

Ritual Model of Communication

• Sees communication as a process for creating and maintaining social realities and a sense of community rather than simply transmitting information.

• We transmit more than just messages, we transmit identities.

Online Radicalization

Tips for Preventing Media Addiction

• Turn off notifications

• Communicate your goals

• Trim the fat — uninstall apps that are wasting your time

• Break bad habits

• Be intentional