As discussed in class today: ‘A 16-year-old girl from Essex was fired after she described her office job as “boring” on her Facebook page.’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/essex/7914415.stm
There is a video on that page as well.
As discussed in class today: ‘A 16-year-old girl from Essex was fired after she described her office job as “boring” on her Facebook page.’
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/essex/7914415.stm
There is a video on that page as well.
Denise Carter, in her ethnography of Cybercity, concludes that social space is a social product (an argument she borrows from Henri Lefebvre, a French sociologist. After watching clips regarding ‘Second Life’, do you agree with this? If so, what do you think of the following question posed by Wellman and Gulia: ‘can online relationships between people who never see, smell, or hear each other be supportive and intimate?’
Each person in class needs to post a response to this question in class today as a comment here.