In her piece, “Following You: Disciplines of Listening in Social Media” Kate Crawford describes how the rise of social media has affected how people communicate with one another. Crawford focuses on the idea of listening and using one’s voice as it applies to social media. Crawford using these words to describe online experiences is not a novel idea. In fact, it is how most people would refer to their interactions on social\u00a0media. It is interesting to use auditory language to describe something that is almost completely visual. As Sterne says in his introduction, hearing is inescapable but seeing can be selective. Crawford seems to be describing a type of “listening” that is selective. She seems to define listening as someone who is engaged in reading social media posts (ex. on Twitter) and interacting (by liking or commenting.) These small things are mimicking an in-person\u00a0conversation. People not interacting with posts or just browsing through a few posts on their feed are engaging in “background listening” this is the kind of listening that is more selective. She describes it as someone reading pieces of tweets or just opening the social media page and drifting to and from it as you do other things. This is the equivalent of being present with someone talking but focusing on other things–you are only picking up on pieces of the conversation. She also talks about the idea of using your “voice” on social media. She describes how often when people say they want to use their “voice” on social media it has a political charge behind it. She seems to think that thinking about voice in this way is impersonal. This reminds me of Cavarero’s argument that says the words that people say are not unique but the voices that speak them are.<\/p>\n
All of the things that Crawford described in her 2009 piece are still true in 2018, just worse. People are more distracted than ever because social media is more prevalent\u00a0than ever. I find it interesting that she finds it impersonal when a politician or celebrity posts something on social media, and this is most likely because she is coming from a time where the most popular way for those people to communicate was on the radio or tv, but to me these famous people posting on social media feels like a personal connection to their followers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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