{"id":517,"date":"2018-09-09T19:16:58","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T19:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/?p=517"},"modified":"2018-09-09T19:17:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-09T19:17:12","slug":"social-media-and-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/blog-07\/social-media-and-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening on Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"TextRun SCXW251809244\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW251809244\">In \u201cFollowing You: Disciplines of Listening in Social Media,\u201d Crawford talks about how people on Twitter interact with one another.\u00a0 Crawford talks about how listening isn\u2019t usually associated with social media, but instead, the voice is associated with social media instead. She talks about her idea\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW251809244\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"ContextualSpellingAndGrammarError SCXW251809244\">of\u00a0 \u201c<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW251809244\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW251809244\">speaking up\u201d and how it has \u201cbecome the dominant metaphor for participation in online spaces.\u201d(80) Crawford talks about how there are\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW251809244\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"AdvancedProofingIssue SCXW251809244\">mainly three<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW251809244\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW251809244\">\u00a0types of listeners that use social media. The three groups are individuals, politicians, and corporations. When looking at how social media is used today, we can see how Crawford was right about these groups being the main users of media sites. Crawford talks about how corporations main use of social media platforms is to get a closer bond with the customers. The corporations are listening to the customer&#8217;s wants and needs, so they know how to adjust their products accordingly.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW251809244\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW251809244\">In<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW251809244\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW251809244\">\u00a0the present, we see ads being displayed to us everywhere we go on social media. Politicians are said to use social media to gain access to millions of potential\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW251809244\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"ContextualSpellingAndGrammarError SCXW251809244\">voters<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW251809244\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW251809244\">\u00a0information. Crawford also explained how Obama used social media \u201cto send updates about the location and content of speeches and rallies before his election in 2008.\u201d(84) Crawford talks about individuals as people who rarely listen on social media sites, and they are people who like to voice their opinions. The individuals who do not follow this norm and like just to watch\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW251809244\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"ContextualSpellingAndGrammarError SCXW251809244\">are<\/span><\/span><span class=\"TextRun SCXW251809244\" lang=\"EN-US\"><span class=\"NormalTextRun SCXW251809244\">\u00a0called \u201clurkers.\u201d Even though the paper was made nine years ago, we can still see as a society how people are still not listening on social media.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"EOP SCXW251809244\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In \u201cFollowing You: Disciplines of Listening in Social Media,\u201d Crawford talks about how people on Twitter interact with one another.\u00a0 Crawford talks about how listening isn\u2019t usually associated with social media, but instead, the voice is associated with social media instead. She talks about her idea\u00a0of\u00a0 \u201cspeaking up\u201d and how it has \u201cbecome the dominant [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","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\/517","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=517"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":519,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/517\/revisions\/519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wri-101c-f18.andrewrippeon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}