MDSB61H3 Chapter 4: Digital media criticism.ch4.mdsb61.docx
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Ch4: auteur criticism and social media: examining the textual features that make up a facebook page, individuals carefully construct selves, fashioning a txt abt themselves. The person"s face : facebook page begins with the image of the person whose page it is, style of the picture reveals some common strands. ~ e is looking at oxford napkins and dreaming , e is having a drink , e is enjoying raw tuna . The newsfeed: made up msges dealing with events, videos, groups, topics, 4 kinds of messages that has a specific auteurial signature. ~ situational, referential, relational and commercial: situational deals with a specific event, context or msg that has relevance outside of a purely individual msg/relationship; often takes priority in the newsfeed. Relational: can be txt, pictures or videos, x and y are now friends while this references the building of every-widening circle of friends, it also suggests a system of personal preferences and affiliations.
