Culture of Connectivity
Many, many years ago our great ancestors told stories, spoke of the day’s happenings and got lost in the flames of a campfire. Today, our televisions, tablets, computers and cellphones are not far from our reach during get together’s, whether at work or at home. Tiime spent together in our culture today is not based on deeply rooted relationships, conversations or even storytelling. Instead, it is based on the newest & latest forms of technology. This has remodeled our means of forming and keeping relationships, unlike our past generations. What follows is ethnographic exploration of online social networking, a controversial new medium of communication that has become a fixture in the everyday lives of middle-class, American youth.
Social media converted between 2001 & 2012. The first half connected user communities who embraced the world wide web (www) and its potential to connect us. After 2006, the word “social” came to mean; technologically manageable and economically exploitable.
Social media, today, is considered the new …show more content…
Today, we see netiquette taking over for it. What is netiquette? Webster defines netiquette as the proper and polite way to communicate with other people when you are using the internet. In this generation if we are not teaching how to communicate with others on a personal level and face to face then how are they ever going to learn to communicate with others via social media?
Social Media enters our lives daily, creating routine forms of communication, connecting lives and reducing the distance gap between countries. Social media impacts, both positively & negatively, politics, business and socialization on a daily basis. Years ago it would have taken days if not weeks or months for news to travel. Today, in our culture, it takes only a matter of
Many, many years ago our great ancestors told stories, spoke of the day’s happenings and got lost in the flames of a campfire. Today, our televisions, tablets, computers and cellphones are not far from our reach during get together’s, whether at work or at home. Tiime spent together in our culture today is not based on deeply rooted relationships, conversations or even storytelling. Instead, it is based on the newest & latest forms of technology. This has remodeled our means of forming and keeping relationships, unlike our past generations. What follows is ethnographic exploration of online social networking, a controversial new medium of communication that has become a fixture in the everyday lives of middle-class, American youth.
Social media converted between 2001 & 2012. The first half connected user communities who embraced the world wide web (www) and its potential to connect us. After 2006, the word “social” came to mean; technologically manageable and economically exploitable.
Social media, today, is considered the new …show more content…
Today, we see netiquette taking over for it. What is netiquette? Webster defines netiquette as the proper and polite way to communicate with other people when you are using the internet. In this generation if we are not teaching how to communicate with others on a personal level and face to face then how are they ever going to learn to communicate with others via social media?
Social Media enters our lives daily, creating routine forms of communication, connecting lives and reducing the distance gap between countries. Social media impacts, both positively & negatively, politics, business and socialization on a daily basis. Years ago it would have taken days if not weeks or months for news to travel. Today, in our culture, it takes only a matter of