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Post by Laura Cunningham on Mar 17, 2016 18:38:39 GMT
Banet-Weiser and Juhasz raise two important questions in their article: (1) how do feminist visibility, empowerment, and image represented in online discourses today effect the ways in which communication flows, and (2) what are the benefits of individualistic online presences versus the negatives of wasted labor?
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Post by Stine on Mar 21, 2016 21:27:37 GMT
These are very useful questions, and I wonder how everyone is answering them for themselves. How many social media and online spaces do you use, for what, and how? What do you get out of it? Which positive and negative experiences have you made? How do you negotiate the benefits and the time invested?
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Post by Laura Cunningham on Mar 22, 2016 14:51:03 GMT
Personally, I'm on all the big social media sites (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr). I primarily use Twitter for research but I find Tumblr holds most of my attention for 'personal' or 'entertainment' use. Other than research, I use Twitter to keep up with the hockey world, following select team and player accounts. It creates a sense of false intimacy, however, because of the asymmetrical relationship between accounts. I read another interesting article about the ways websites build social capital by different interaction mechanisms for their users (think likes and comments on Facebook versus the retweet and # on Twitter). I've researched how to build capital for all platforms but I feel like Tumblr is a bit of an equalizer. Unless your post goes big or you have a really specific niche community, the personal circle is usually never over 150. That's a very manageable number (what anthropologists call Dunbar's number) and represents the average amount of people we can interact and actually be friends with based on the cranial ability to produce meaningful connections between people and feelings.
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Post by inger on Mar 23, 2016 21:07:45 GMT
I use Facebook to communicate with my dog rescue friends. This is a local community and it is fairly large, while there are a few male members I say that 95% are women. This community does good work for the many abandon dogs in the Detroit area. This group also gets post from other states in the US where dogs needs to be rescued from kill-shelters by relocation. To my mind belonging to this community has enriched my efforts as a dog rescue person, I connect with people who know the business and who can help me resolve issues in connection with my volunteer work. I do not think my circle have more than 70 members but the quality of the bonds within the community is pretty strong. We have met in small groups and built shelters for homeless dogs during the winter and we have dog and cat feeding sites set up throughout Detroit where people drop off food for the animals daily. One of the dogs that we have fed this winter was trapped and rescued off the streets 10 days ago and yesterday she delivered 10 healthy puppies. Everyone involved with that feeding team celebrated, it was a big successful event for us. I think the Facebook community means a lot to the dog rescue community in Detroit.
A relevant question to think about is certainly why the majority of members are women. I know for sure that many of the members are retired or do not work for other reasons. It can be a means of filling time with activity but also satisfying a desire for social contact. To me Facebook communication will never be the same as face-to-face contacts but it works better than the phone because one can post any time and reach many with one post. Social media will become more and more important in our lives with time.
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