So far I have created an alias Jazmine Bee on Facebook and observed public pages and the common themes we are focusing on in this subject. I have not added friends or any personal information to affiliate me with any demographic. Facebook has sent me daily emails requesting I add friends, suggested people I may know and requesting me to complete my profile with personal information at each login. As in this weeks reading McNeil (2012), Mark Zuckerberg states having two identities indicates a lack of integrity.
By refusing to be a "produser" with this Facebook alias the advertising that appears in my profile is random. It ranges from chick flicks to childrens Disney movies, anything to try and determine what demographic I belong to. In my week one post I touched on the internet as an ingenious advertising tool. Van Luyun (2013) in the week four lecture, also mentioned that social networks have created a new dimension of interactive advertising and with Facebook a market research platform.
Modern day songlines are now instant instead of being travelled organically over long periods of time or dreaming (Van Luyun, 2013). This week I found an article on the New Scientist Facebook page, called How many uncontacted tribes are left in the world. Some tribes chose not to be contacted because of conflict with civilisation in the past. The majority of those integrated wouldn't want to go back to the traditional way of life (Holmes, 2013). Just as in the Chatwin article "the country had not existed until the ancestors sang it " (1987). It's almost like our narrative, our autobiography isn't official until it's on Facebook. "It's a human trait to want to expand our contacts" (Holmes, 2013). Facebook, social networking, the internet is morphing reality and virtuality into one giant market platform. Our songline is a trail of market research and there is no going back to the traditional way of life.
Chatwin, B. (1987). Chapter 3, in Songlines (pp. 11-15). London, England: Jonathan Cape. Retrieved from: http://www.learnjcu.edu.au
Holmes, B. (2013). New Scientist. Retrieved from: http://www.newscientist.co/article /dn24090-how-many-uncontacted-tribes-are-left-in-the-world.html#.UhnThm1nuSo
Van Luyn, A. (2013). BA1002: Our Space: Networks, Narratives and the Making of Place, Week 4 Notes. [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from http://www.learnjcu.edu.au
By refusing to be a "produser" with this Facebook alias the advertising that appears in my profile is random. It ranges from chick flicks to childrens Disney movies, anything to try and determine what demographic I belong to. In my week one post I touched on the internet as an ingenious advertising tool. Van Luyun (2013) in the week four lecture, also mentioned that social networks have created a new dimension of interactive advertising and with Facebook a market research platform.
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The Facebook monopoly taking our identities to the bank Miemis, V. (2013).
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Modern day songlines are now instant instead of being travelled organically over long periods of time or dreaming (Van Luyun, 2013). This week I found an article on the New Scientist Facebook page, called How many uncontacted tribes are left in the world. Some tribes chose not to be contacted because of conflict with civilisation in the past. The majority of those integrated wouldn't want to go back to the traditional way of life (Holmes, 2013). Just as in the Chatwin article "the country had not existed until the ancestors sang it " (1987). It's almost like our narrative, our autobiography isn't official until it's on Facebook. "It's a human trait to want to expand our contacts" (Holmes, 2013). Facebook, social networking, the internet is morphing reality and virtuality into one giant market platform. Our songline is a trail of market research and there is no going back to the traditional way of life.
Reference List
Chatwin, B. (1987). Chapter 3, in Songlines (pp. 11-15). London, England: Jonathan Cape. Retrieved from: http://www.learnjcu.edu.au
Holmes, B. (2013). New Scientist. Retrieved from: http://www.newscientist.co/article /dn24090-how-many-uncontacted-tribes-are-left-in-the-world.html#.UhnThm1nuSo
Van Luyn, A. (2013). BA1002: Our Space: Networks, Narratives and the Making of Place, Week 4 Notes. [PowerPoint slides]. Retrieved from http://www.learnjcu.edu.au
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Miemis, V. (2013). Emergent by Design. Retrieved from: http://emergentbydesign.com /2011/04/04/the-bank-of-facebook-currency-identity-reputation/
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