This is the blog for "You Are What You Tweet: Identity and Social Media," a Spring 2014 seminar at Sarah Lawrence College. Students are maintaining their own blogs, each focused on a topic of their choice, the list of which is on the right side below the Twitter feed (please follow us!). This blog serves as command central, featuring a guest blog post from each student about one class session, as well as feeds for our Twitter account @youtweetSLC and hashtag #tweetSLC. For more information about the class and access to the syllabus, click here.
Young People and Social Media
Boyd in Chapters 1 and 7 makes fresh and creative observations on youth online participatory behavior and positive affects that being digitally literate in the social media age can produce. In Chapter 1, she brings up the tran...
Young People and Social MediaIn chapter 1 of Its Complicated, boyd introduces the idea that how a teen presents him or herself on the internet and over social media should not be taken at face value as a complete and wholly accurate depiction of that indi...
“Online Profiles: Remediating the Coming-Out Story.” Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America.
Gray, M. 2009. - Pps. 121-140
Amy, age 15
Amy, a white teenager living in Central Kentucky, discovers LGBT identities o...
Summary of the Panel:
Speaker 1, Gregory Donovan:
Approached study of the Internet as an ecological study. Primarily analyzed the exploitative nature of “dataveillance” and growing “Smart City” ecosystem.
“Dataveillance” ...
The panel discussion on tuesday began with a power point by Gregory Donovan an Assistant Professor on Sociology and Urban Studies. His presentation introduced vocabulary such as “dataveillance,” and “smart city” to help describe th...
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