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Thinking about gender playing a role in social media profiles and posts made me reflect on Savannah LaBrant’s instagram profile and posts. I am studying her family and the community that follows them for my netnography project, so focusing on gender roles throughout their posts is something I am exploring more every day. The textbookContinue reading “Blog 9: Gendered Content Analysis”

For my netnography project I am looking at the LaBrant family and their followers. The LaBrant family includes Savannah LaBrant, Cole LaBrant, Everleigh and Posie LaBrant and a baby boy on the way. Savannah and Cole are the parents of their two little girls and are very religious people. A lot of their tweets andContinue reading “Blog 8: Netnography Initial Findings”

Spending a full 24 hours off social media was a whirlwind of emotions. I struggled a bit because I feel like it is a natural habit to go on my phone and open snapchat and Instagram. I caught myself almost opening the apps multiple times and had to stop myself. The apps that were hardestContinue reading “Blog 7: Addiction”

In Chapter 6, The Uses and Benefits of Social Media, I learned about theories that try to answer the question of why people participate in social media and what they get out of it. The uses and gratification theory believes that “people consume media for some purpose and to receive some reward, or gratification” (Humphreys,Continue reading “Blog 6: Content Analysis”

For my netnography project I want to observe the families on YouTube that blog about their lives. I want to mostly focus on The Labrant family. I will be watching their posts, what content they talk about, which posts get the most likes and comments, the followers and how they insert the values and ideasContinue reading “Blog 5: Netnography Proposal”

Below are screenshots of 5 different people searching the same key words into google. For this experiment I had my friends type in “The Bachelor” in the search bar to see the results that came up and to see the filter bubble in action. This was taken by my sister Erin in Atlanta, Georgia onContinue reading “Blog 4: Filter Bubble”

Picture this: it is 2010 again, you’re in 5th grade and at recess. You go outside with your friends because it is a sunny and beautiful day and decide to play hide and go seek. You’re the last one hiding under slide when you’re discovered. You laugh and go back to class. The day ends andContinue reading “Blog 3: Theory of Social Media 1”

I use most social media platforms including, Instagram, Facebook, snapchat, twitter, vsco, tiktok etc. I use them to create visually appealing content and to share photos with my friends and family, but also to communicate to others through social media. I also use platforms like twitter to see how people feel about what is goingContinue reading “Blog 2: Forms and Genres of Social Media”

Donna Harraway defined a cyborg as “A cyborg is a cybernetic organism, a hybrid of machine and organism, a creature of social reality as well as a creature of fiction”. After reading the article and thinking about ways that we can be cyborgs the first thing that came to my mind was locating chips inContinue reading “Blog 1: Cyborgs”