So I learnt quite a bit this lecture.
Adam Muir was our guest lecturer and he helped define a few things.
Technology- 'Scientific study of mechanical acts and their application to the world'.
But what he pointed out that I found really interesting was technology is useless if you don't have the knowledge to use it. This was a really valid point. This is a major generalisation, but mature people usually have difficulty using technology because they haven't got the knowledge.
Media- 'When technology is used for social and cultural communication that technology becomes a medium of communication'.
Virtual Community
- way to explain a group of people who communicate via the internet.
while
Individual Identity
- way to explain how people express who they are via the internet. Examples- are like nicknames.
So this is how I came to understand.
The Virtual Community, was especially popular when the internet was not as popular as it is now. People got to socialise with other people with similar interests, so it was creating a community.
The Individual Identity follows the same concept that our current generation follows. It is all about 'me'. The internet and social networking is about people "promoting" themselves. People have the websites pages to show everyone their opinion, their pictures, their life. This apparently has a name called the ego-centric social network, which is pretty self-explanatory.
This is what I really got out of the lecture. There were heaps of other points, but this is what I really took away from it.
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