1) Take home exercise 1 (1,250 words)
Read through the following ten quotations* and select four for your assessment response. You must write four separate quote responses of about 300 words each. In each response you must answer the following questions:
Who is the author of the quote and what is the title of the text in which the quote appears?
What is the meaning of the quote with reference to the main argument or claims made by the author?
What is the contribution and significance of the reading?
Do you agree with the author’s argument? Provide reasons for your stance.
Do not include these questions in your response. The responses must be written in argument form, and in your own words.
Make sure that for each quote response you identify the selected quote by copying the number and text of the quote into your submission. Each response should immediately follow the copied quote.
You must demonstrate your skills in critical reading and summarising through accurate representation and comprehension of the relevant texts.
Use APA 7th edition referencing style (in-text references, page numbers for direct quotations and a reference list). Avoid using lengthy direct quotations in your response. The reference list is not included in the overall word count. Your reference list should appear at the end of the document and list all the texts you referred to in your text, including the source of each quote to which you have responded.
1. Documenting our lived experiences and sharing them with others transforms our experiences of the everyday. As we chronicle quotidian events and activities, we engage in a social process. As we document everyday activities, media accounting transforms them into ritualized performances.(in week1 sharing the everyday, p.45, like oaoacharissi…)
2. In other words, while some memes are just trendy pictures or videos that get passed around verbatim, others encourage a type of iteration, imitation, parody, and satire that can spawn literally thousands of variants. Memes, then, can become raw material for creativity. (In week4 Memes, p.13)
3. Identity scholars such as Goffman (1959) have long argued that the self plays multiple roles in everyday life and cannot be understood adequately as a single unified entity. Rather than there being One True Self, variations of which are inherently false, contemporary scholars have come to see the self as flexible and mutable, taking different incarnations in different situations. (In week2 new relationship,p.106)
4. Identity in social media is often expressed through customization. People who create blogs, homepages, and online profiles can use a variety of digital tokens such as pictures, avatars, icons, nicknames, fonts, music, and video to represent themselves. (In week2 online identity, p.358)
5. Every participant in a communicative act has an imagined audience. Audiences are not discrete; when we talk, we think we are speaking only to the people in front of us or on the other end of the telephone, but this is in many ways a fantasy. (In week 3 I tweet honestly, p.115)
6. The affordances of networked publics introduce new dynamics with which participants must contend. Many of these dynamics are not new, but they were never so generally experienced. ( in week3 social network sites, p.49)
7. People practicing microcelebrity must uneasily navigate between revealing personal information to seem truthful and real to their fans and revealing something that could harm them personally and professionally. (Week2 online identity, p.361)
8. First, memes may best be understood as pieces of cultural information that pass along from person to person, but gradually scale into a shared social phenomenon. Although they spread on a micro basis, their impact is on the macro level: memes shape the mindsets, forms of behavior, and actions of social groups. (Week4, when memes go digital, p.18)
9. In an era marked by “network individualism,” people use memes to simultaneously express both their uniqueness and their connectivity. (Week4, when memes go digital, p.30)
10. The network is therefore a collaborator in the identity and content presented by the speaker, and the imagined audience becomes visible when it influences the information Twitter users choose to broadcast.
(Week3 I tweet honestly ,p.130)