SB2: How Social Media Shape Our Identity (Tedtalk)

How Social Media Shapes Identity

Talk by : Dr. Ulrike Schultze

Technology Materialism: Race Emoji (emoji being in different 'races')

• materialising  certain actions named to being able to express certain racial qualities in technology - it sets up an expectation and it's racialising our communication (makes you think of what emojis to use, and how much you're going to express your race through your tweets, posts etc.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSpyZor-Byk

Virtual World (Second Life) = Social Media

• Having a profile and essentially having your information and other people's readily available 
• Having a virtual body (avatar, persona)
• Having technology that has a broad range of expressive media AS VIRTUAL WORLD provides insight as to social media that only has a subset of that media. 

Social Media: Too Much of A Good Thing?

Talk by : Samia Khan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2a7i-T_G4H0

• Hyper Positive - people in social media feel the need to only show their high points in order to be validated and shown attention through likes and comments.

Thoughts & Reflection:

Both talks mostly talked about how we use social media in order to create a 'second life' a virtual version of ourselves. Samia Khan talked about how we only want people to know about the good things that happen to use as we want to be perceived positively by everyone. In addition, the features that are within social media also shapes who we are from the filters we use to the emoji's we use, further emphasising on just how much we use social media in order to create an identity/identities for ourselves online. 

I found both videos quite helpful as they touch on things around my topic like how we use different social media sites and why we use them that way. It also informed me on things like 'materialism' and usage of features within the app like emojis and filters.