SERRA KOZ

ENG 101

BİLKENT UNIVERSITY

PROJECT MUSE

A VOICE OF ONE, A SOCIETY OF ONE:

COMMUNITY SUSTAINABILITY IN THE

NEW MEDIA AGE OF INDIVIDUALISM

(WRITTEN BY: THOMAS H. P. GOULD)

WHY WE SHARE OUR

PHOTOS OR THOUGHTS ON

SOCIAL MEDIA ALTHOUGH

WE KNOW NO-ONE READ

CAREFULLY?

NARCISSIMS: Extreme selfishness

DIVERSITY

SOCIAL CULTURES

GROUP IDENTITIES

CREATION OF INDIVIDUAL• Curious

• Recent phenomenon

• Super

• Isolated individuals

• Rising standards of education

• A high sense of security

• Communication options

RISING STANDARDS OF EDUCATION

Question: Why people avoid better education?

Question: Why people need better education?

• Manage, manipulate

• Websites >> BAN ! ( #OccupyGezi Protest in Turkey)

• WHY? Control by authorities, manage, suppress.

• Smart voter, smart shopper, Smart reader, Smart Viewer...

FEELING SAFE COMES AND GOES

• Khan, Queen, Sultan

• Fluctuations in the sense of security

• How information is shared about what is happening in the world. (Paris terrorist Attack !)

TREMENDOUS RESULT OF USING THE INTERNET

• Human-to-Human Conversation ↓

Sight

Environment

Smell

Ambient Noise

Temperature

→ Not Found in Video

Transmissions

LOST?

• Gestures, mimics, tone

• Reading

• The role of language

• Lost of Language >> Lost of Cultures

APPS

THE CULTURELESS WORLD OFTHE INTERNET

communities & virtual communities

CULTURE & SOCIETY“One exists only

within the

existence of the

other.” (Gould 253)

“More and more

nations and a more

and more global

culture.” (254)

• “After the post is superfluous, unnecessary… The

messages are blind posts that generate blind

response.” (255)

• The reason behind posting

• Specifically us, not me!

DEFINITION: a clustered human settlement or community, larger than

a hamlet but smaller than a town, with a population ranging from a few

hundred to a few thousand (sometimes then of thousands)

Safety,danger ↓ (past)

Far, danger (Now)>Metropolitans

Critical Point > Being alone (Danger)

THE VILLAGE

DEFRIENDING AND FRIENDING

• Creature of town community

Solitary

Self-defined

Self- satisfying

Acquaintance

Best friend

Close friend

WHY PEOPLE FEEL SAFE WHEN THEY ARE ON

THE SOCIAL WEBSITES?

• Being anonymous

• Hide their emotions

• Create a new character

so far removed from the village

• The information, connection

• Disconnected, socially unaware people → real world

• No common elements

• Singular global culture ,no culture

IS THE INTERNET BACKBONE OF LIFE OR NOT?

FACEBOOK AND WORLD REDEFINED

• Since 2003-2004

• Private information

• Images that looks «hotter»

• ACCEPTED √

WHY DO PEOPLE THINK THAT THEY USE FACEBOOK

INSTEAD OF E-MAILS, MESSAGE BOARDS AND ONLINE

BOARDS MORE?

• Shared diary

• Exchange information

• «For example, a friend of mine recently posted on Facebook, ‘ I’ll post more photos from

the *** Pool Party last night, but here’s my favorite so far. What a great *** family!’ This is

a typical type of very personal post not intended to generate a response or ask for any

new information, feedback, or ideas. It is simply a statement: I did this, I am sharing this,

isn’t this wonderful!» (259)

SHARE → SPEAKING

READ → LISTENING

• Share information, PRIVATE

• «PUBLIC» Closed Groups

PRESUMPTION

1. the posts are read

2. the readers care about what they read; and (oddly)

3. the information is not saved.

→ Storage Area

Preserve

Catalogue

Verify

BUT

• Writing in traditional way

• Posting on Facebook

Lazy, slow, poor thinker

APPS AND GLOBALISM

• What consequences can we draw

from the potential impact on Angry

Birds or Texas Poker on global

Culture?

• Cultureless.

• Linker → LANGUAGE

• share same environment, use

same products

• Culture to «subculture»

(absorbation)

• global culturalization

• «Invesco produces an app designed to allow users to not only store ideas, but to do so

with little or no sense of ownership. Now, here’s the thing. Take out the word ‘Invesco’ and

you can replace it with any of a few million others, all of which would fit the sentence (if

not quite rising to Invesco’s standing as an investment app)» (262)

• Information is valid

«WHAT WE SEE IS OURSELVES; WHAT WE SEE IS

WHAT WE ARE DOING. THIS IS WHAT WE SEE AS

IMPORTANT. AFTER ALL, ISN’T ME/MYSELF/I WHAT

REALLY COUNTS? WHO CARES ABOUT THEM

(AND, SECRETLY, EVEN YOU)? OH, WELL—BACK

TO MY FACEBOOK. « (263)

• increases in global culture

• Self-defined and supreme faith

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REFERANCES:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder

• Gloud, Thomas H. P. « A Voice of One, a Society of One: Community Sustainability in the

New Media Age of Individualism» Journal of Scholarly Publishing. 43.3 (April 2015): Web.

November 2015. 251-64

• http://dictionary.cambridge.org/