Media, Information and Technoculture 1050A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Danah Boyd, Hashtag Activism, Celebrity Culture

• School: Western University
• Department: Media, Information and Technoculture
• Course: Media, Information and Technoculture 1050A/B
• Professor: Norma Coates

Document Summary

Social media and teens: moral panic about what social media is doing to kids, video: media affects research. Other ways to think about social media: Your phone and its apps are cultural artefacts: they are part of our culture. Celebrity culture has always been there too; celebrities are normally attractive to similar people. People look to popular culture for heroes: some teens know what brands are up to, many teen understand what algorithms do. Spotify, netflix use these ideas: validation happens on a larger scale. From parents, specific audiences: marketers (cid:272)a(cid:374) (cid:271)e a(cid:374)d are (cid:862)pu(cid:374)ked(cid:863, still, teens should question everything, realize you do(cid:374)"t ha(cid:448)e to look at e(cid:448)erythi(cid:374)g. Be aware of where you give your attention. Idea that some african cultures have had less access to various technologies/networks: puts out media just for this group, discussions of issues that face the black community, (cid:862)bla(cid:272)k t(cid:449)itter(cid:863) is a (cid:272)ultural for(cid:272)e i(cid:374) its o(cid:449)(cid:374) right.