Analyze uses of your mobile phone that connect you to other people
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INFO202F18MediaIdeologiesPaper210-03-18.pptxMedia ideologies & Paper 2 Workshop
INFO 202
Social Aspects of Information Technology
Fall 2018
Media ideologies – gershon
“People’s ideas about the medium shape the ways that medium will deliver a message” (p. 3)
“Media ideologies about one medium are always affected by the media ideologies people have about other media” (p. 5)
Media ideologies & interactionism
Related to symbolic interactionism.
How someone acts toward a thing depend on the meaning the thing has for that person.
How we interpret messages is based in part on the medium of how the messages are delivered.
Media ideologies – Discuss
Text message
Snapchat
Phone call
Paper letter
Voicemail
Facebook message
Emojis
Second-order information? Idioms of practice?
Paper 2: topic
Analyze uses of your mobile phone that connect you to others.
Consider uses as a sociotechnical system:
Individual choices
Choices enabled or constrained by the technology
Choices related to social aspects (e.g., law or social mores)
Use either concept of media ideology (Gershon) or concept of self-expansion (Hoffner, et al.).
Discuss and cite at least two class readings.
Paper 2: Analysis of concepts
Required:
Media ideology (Gershon), OR
Self-expansion (Hoffner, et al. )
Recommended:
Baym’s concepts for analyzing social media (could strengthen discussion of media ideology)
Paper 2: how to use concepts
Summarize the main point of the reading.
Quote from the source of the concept.
Explain the concept in your own words.
Describe your example.
Illustrate how the concept helps explain your example.
Paper 2: write-up (5 pages)
Introduction (1 paragraph): roadmap + thesis
Analysis (4 pages): examples + readings + citations
Conclusion (1 paragraph): summary + thesis
Apa: in-text citations
Media ideologies consider the way the medium of the message influences how the message is delivered and received (Gershon, 2010).
Some scholars find, “People’s ideas about the medium shape the ways that medium will deliver a message” (Gershon, 2010, p. 3).
Gershon (2010) points out how, “People’s ideas about the medium shape the ways that medium will deliver a message” (p. 3).
APA: Reference LisT
Book
Gershon, I. (2010). Fifty ways to leave your lover. In The Breakup 2.0: Disconnecting over New Media (pp. 16-49). Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.
Article
Hoffner, C.A., Lee, S., & Park, S.J. (2016). “I miss my mobile phone!”: Self-expansion via mobile phone and responses to phone loss. New Media & Society, 18(11), 2452-2468.
