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FACEBOOK PRESENTATION: GROUP B
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Introduction: What is Facebook?
- Facebook is an interactive social network where individuals create profiles to share with other users. These profiles are created as a means to link to, and interact with, other users of facebook.
- Users are seemingly part of a small group of people with, if nothing else, their communication medium in common--all are users.
- Typical users are high school to college age students, but anyone with internet access can now join.
- The rhetor and his or her respective audience cohabitate the same space. They make posts not just on the assumption that they may receive responses, but on the belief that they will receive responses.
- Explopration of the four text-context interactions (conformity, non-participation, desecration, contextual reconstruction) will further describe the nuances of Facebook.
CONFORMITY -- "Users stay within the bounds of what is expected and acceptable as demonstrated by other users"
EXAMPLES:
- Profile pictures are genereally of self
- Majority of users have friends on the friend list
- Most users show activity
- Typically display bulk of personal and basic information (at least sex and birthday since they are mandatory)
- Many users belong to groups (groups being collections of users with common interests; i.e., a club)
NON-PARTICIPATION -- "Refusal to participate in the norms of the greater group"
EXAMPLES:
- Users could choose not to join groups
- Users could omit information from personal and general information sections
- Users could refuse to respond to wall comments
- Users could choose not to post a picture of themselves
- Users could not have friends and/or reject friend requests
DESECRATION -- "Purposely violating rules to disrupt or confuse normal/acceptable activity"
EXAMPLES:
- Use of formal language would defy the norm
- Negative wall responses
- Talking about serious or taboo subjects
- Displaying over-the-top/inappropriate profile pictures or other images
- Blatantly falsifying information, or the appearance of being false
CONTEXTUAL RECONSTRUCTION -- "Violation of expectations which redefines and makes the outcome of the violation acceptable for the audience"
EXAMPLES:
- Using profile pictures to promote talent (artwork, designs, etc.)
- Using photo albums space to demonstrate photography skills
- Using profiles as a platform for a political candidate
- Using the Notes section as a forum
- Facebook was designed for college students, but now it is available to everyone
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