SOC101Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 124-134: Virtual Community, Online Identity, Hybridity
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Social media are disinguished from tradiional mass medial by four key traits: hybridity: since they enable the integraion and recombinaion of various new and old technologies, networked and linear: social media are many to many in their connecivity. Interacive: instead of providing people with inished product the content of social media is user generated and coninually modiied in collaboraive fashion: almost every where all the ime: wherever an internet or mobile phone connecion is available. Idenity, argued that virtual world would enable people to construct and express their ideniies in new potenially liberaing ways. Examining how people engaged with virtual world such as mud ( muli user dungeons) and moos( muli user object oriented domains). Social media of all types aford ample opportunity to construct our selves as we shape and adjust our personal proiles, modify the look of our avatars and manage our presentaion of self. Many writers have noted the limits to online idenity play as well.
