{"id":506,"date":"2018-09-09T03:17:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T03:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/?p=506"},"modified":"2018-09-09T03:17:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T03:17:31","slug":"the-individuals-norms-in-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/blog-07\/the-individuals-norms-in-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"The Individual’s Norms in Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crawford talks about social media and the importance of the listener and audience in social media. The idea of \u201cspeaking up\u201d and using one<\/span><\/span>\u2019<\/span><\/span>s voice is often the most common an acknowledged way people participate in social media; however, \u201clurking\u201d is\u00a0<\/span><\/span>also\u00a0<\/span><\/span>important for the continued growth\u00a0<\/span><\/span>of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>and participation in social media. The people who lurk are providing an audience for those \u201cspeaking up\u201d to preform to and get reactions from, encouraging them to continue to share. Without people listening, social medias would die out; lurkers \u201ccontribute a mode of receptiveness that encourages others to make public contributions\u201d (81).<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Twitter, as a\u00a0<\/span><\/span>social<\/span><\/span>\u00a0media, also plays off the idea of sound with its name; Twitter can apply to the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u201ccalling of birds, or the \u2018idle\u2019 chatter of humans\u201d (83)<\/span><\/span>. The constant chatter of humans can be both\u00a0<\/span><\/span>entertaining<\/span><\/span>\u00a0and difficult to navigate and understand with \u201ca stream of multilayered information\u201d (83). One can have a tweet about a\u00a0<\/span><\/span>celebrity<\/span><\/span>\u00a0blog,\u00a0<\/span><\/span>political<\/span><\/span>\u00a0news, and a picture of a dog doing something crazy all in the span of seconds. This complex of information allows for many Twitter users to establish different types of\u00a0<\/span><\/span>relationships<\/span><\/span>\u00a0with the social media. Many will choose to share personal information while others choose to retweet other people\u2019s thoughts or not post at all. However, all \u201c<\/span><\/span>disclosure made in social media spaces develop a relationship with an audience of listeners\u201d (83)<\/span><\/span>. However, in 2009, when the piece was written, the norms of social media had not yet\u00a0<\/span><\/span>developed<\/span><\/span>, leaving the relationship between audience and speaker unclear and\u00a0<\/span><\/span>difficult<\/span><\/span>\u00a0to define. In recent year, the increase in participation in\u00a0<\/span><\/span>social<\/span><\/span>\u00a0media has developed more norms. Corporations and politicians struggle to keep balanced communication with their audience with the growth in the platforms, so the expectation for constant responses has gone down. Therefore, they have moved to using their social medias for promotions and marketing.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Individual<\/span><\/span>\u00a0users have also been able to set their own standard for how they are going to participate in social media. Lurking is no longer seen as a drain on social media; it has even been glorified. Many people openly enjoy, and even pride themselves in, being able to stalk other people.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Therefore,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0the relationship between listener and audience can\u00a0<\/span><\/span>defined<\/span><\/span>\u00a0by the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>individual, breaking away from the idea of a norm<\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Crawford talks about social media and the importance of the listener and audience in social media. The idea of \u201cspeaking up\u201d and using one\u2019s voice is often the most common an acknowledged way people participate in social media; however, \u201clurking\u201d is\u00a0also\u00a0important for the continued growth\u00a0of\u00a0and participation in social media. The people who lurk are providing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-blog-07","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=506"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":507,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/506\/revisions\/507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}