For our Myspace/Facebook presentation we focused on the internet audiences, internet vernacular, activism, opinions, voyeurism, unreality, the difference between myspace/facebook, and the effect both sites have on socializing. We also focused on incorporating chapters from Barker. Each group member was responsible for going through the Barker chapters and finding ideas that related to myspace/facebook.
My part in the presentation required me to discuss the effects myspace/facebook have on socialization. How these sites cause people to rely more on communicating with people through chatting online, emails, and even text messages as opposed to having face-to-face conversations. I also provided an outline with quotes from Butler’s theories on identity, and the internet; Butler refers to the internet as a space in which people can communicate freely across divisions of class and race. I found this to be relevant to the myspace/facebook sites because these sites allow people to keep in contact with people from other parts of the world. Along with my outline I developed discussion questions which related to identity and that would get the class thinking about how people can change their identity on the internet. I was also in charge of making the sugar cookies that were passed out to those who participated in the discussion. The cookies were decorated with two different blue frostings; one represented facebook and the others represented myspace. The facebook cookie had things such as “poke”, “tag”, “Farmville”, etc. written on them to represent things that are found on facebook. The myspace cookies had things such as “photo comment”, “new message”, “tag”, etc. on them to represent different things that are found on myspace.
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