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BY: MARIANNE, HANNAH AND MARILENA
VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP AND THE NEW NARCISSISM
The rich and the powerful documented
their existence and their status
through painted portraits.
Portraits offer intriguing hints
about the daily life of their subjects.
They offer opportunities
for both self-expression and self-seeking.
VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP AND THE NEW NARCISSISM
Today, our self-portraits are
democratic and digital.
We create them to find friendship,
love, and that ambiguous
modern thing called connection.
VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP AND THE NEW NARCISSISM
The best-known social networking site
is--------------------FACEBOOK,
launched in 2004.
THE WORLD IS NOW AN ADDICT
VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP AND THE NEW NARCISSISM
FACEBOOK HAS MORE THAN 800 MILLION USERS AND IS THE LARGEST SOCIAL
NETWORK THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN!!!!!!!
VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP AND THE NEW NARCISSISM
Like painters constantly retouching
their work, we alter, update,
and tweak our online
self-portraits.
Vital statistics, glimpses of bare flesh,
lists of favorite bands and
favorite poems all clamor
for our attention.
VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP AND THE NEW NARCISSISM
The Delphic oracle’s guidance was know thyself.
Today,
in the world of online social networks,
the oracle’s advice might be show thyself.
VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP AND THE NEW NARCISSISM
IS IT REALLY YOU??
ARE YOU REALLY THAT POPULAR??
……LIAAAAAAAAR!
VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP AND THE NEW NARCISSISM
One Facebook group with over 200,000 members is called
“Enough with the Poking, Let’s Just Have Sex.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvQcabZ1zrk
A REAL LIFE UPDATE.
CLAY SHIRKY!!!
WHY ABUNDANCE IS GOOD: A REPLY TO NICK CARR
The mechanisms of media affect the native of thought.
The heart of ‘Is Google making us stupid?’ is about culture.
Carr uses as references ‘War and Peace’ the longest novels in canon.
There is cultural sacrifice in the transformation of the media landscape.
WHY ABUNDANCE SHOULD BREED OPTIMISM: A SECOND REPLY TO NICK CARR
Every past technology I know of has increased the number of producers of written material.
The increased volume and availability of writing is leading not to wisdom but to triviality and distractions.
The young are abandoning the classical in favour of the vulgar.
Technologies that make writing abundant always requires new social structures to accompany them.
We have a challenge before us in figuring out how to keep distractions of the net at bay, now that new material is no longer hard to discover or access.
GOOGLE!!Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
Google is the most widely used search engine.
Google is now an official verb being added to the English language dictionary.
FINANCING AND INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING
Google's initial public offering (IPO)
took place on August 19, 2004.
The company offered 19,605,052 shares
at a price of $85
per share.
GOOGLE DATA CENTERS
As of 2011, Google Inc. owned and operated six data
centers across the U.S.,
plus one in Finland and
another in Belgium.
Google said they will be operational
within two years.
PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS
In addition to its standard web search services,
Google has released a number of online productivity tools. Gmail,
a free webmail service provided by Google, was launched as an
invitation-only beta program on April 1, 2004, and became
available to the general public on February 7, 2007.
IS GOOGLE MAKING US STUPID?
“Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes. A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I’ve got the
telltale fact or quote I was after.” Carr p.64
“ Media are not just passive channels of information, they supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought”
CONT’D…
The Internet is a machine designed for the efficient and automated collection, transmission, and manipulation of information, and its legions of programmers are intent on finding the “one best method” the perfect algorithm to carry out every mental movement of what we’ve come
to describe as “knowledge work.” Carr p. 71
IS GOOGLE MAKING US STUPID?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuC8Er2qdbk
WHAT DO YOU THINK??
1. Does this technology, with its constant demands to collect (friends and status) and perform (by marketing ourselves), in some ways undermine our ability to attain what it promises—a surer sense of who we are and where we belong?
2. HOW WOULD YOU DO YOUR HOMEWORK WITHOUT GOOGLE??? :O hehe (DO YOU THINK GOOGLE IS MAKING US STUPID?!)
3. …