Social media has become a practice of everyday
life it has been said that a person checks their phone over one-hundred and
fifty times a day with access to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and
other media like snap chat. People are
constantly connected through conversation and media through their phones.
Manovich says ‘Instead, we moved from media to social media (Manovich,1), this
outlines our current society because instead of local news we as a mass culture have adopted the
electronic era of information. All of our news sources are digital, we receive
constant updates through social media sources like Twitter. Users follow
celebrities and political figures so that we have a constant feed of
information from these sources so we are enhancing our view points and increasing
our media diet from several perspectives.
This shift occurred in the 2000’s it increasingly
became a user medium communication was created through several sources posts,
comments, reviews, rating, votes links, photos and videos(Manovich 2) User have
gradually become more and more responsive to these social media sources
Facebook is available in nearly every country and connects its users through
friending posts and comments. Another Example from Manovich claims that from
2007 2.2 billion people have mobile phones this stat is most likely outdated
based on the amount of smartphones released within the last two years with the
creation of the iPhone, Android, HTC, Nexus. Cell phones have become a dominate
market through which people are lining up to purchase. This is relevant because
the more people purchasing cell phone the more people are involved in
generating views and members within the social media applications.
Which bring me to YouTube “has become the go-to
website for finding topical and obscure streaming videos” (Hilderbrand, 48),
Miller describes this as the “New Economy, Creativity and Consumption Symposium.”
This can be related directly to myself because within the last year I have been
a direct consumer of YouTube I have viewed and shared viral videos or simply
videos I have found amusing to share with my friends who share the same sense
of humor. Personally I have consumed hundreds of YouTube videos but have failed
to create my own although I have recently become a member of nearly three new
social media websites including Twitter, Stumbleupon, and Instagram I have join
these sits based on the amount of friends familiar with the website and sharing
capabilities of these social media websites. I Stongly believe that we as a
society have switched to social media as a main type of communication because
of the vast amount of users associated with these websites.
Manovich, l. (2008) The Practice of Everyday (Media) Life: From Mass Consumption to Mass
Hilderbrand, L. (2007). Youtube: Where Cultural Memory and Copyright Converge. Film Quarterly. Vol. 61, No. 1, 48-57.
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