ARTS2093 Social Media- Main Types of Communication

Explore the debate occurring on at least two social media platforms about the rollout of the COVID-19 vaccine in Australia. Explain the communication you observe reoccurring in this debate betweenn different types of social media users.

Your answer should:

1. Explore the communication of at least 2 different types of users (e.g. everyday users, politicians, celebrities, law makers, influencers etc.).

 

2. Include at least 5 examples of social media communication to illustrate the main types of communication that you observe (e.g. trolling, shaming, aligning/bonding, critiquing, ingrouping, outgrouping, defaming, etc.).

3. Draw on at least 3 of the following concepts that we have covered in the course: affordances, stories, social norms, connective functions, imagined audiences, context collapse, networked publics, lifestreaming, self-branding, attention economy.

 

How many accounts, posts, threads, etc. are enough?

At least 5 examples in the essay.

What exactly is meant by “patterns of communication”?
Communicative practices that occur over and over again, something that you notice occurring repeatedly rather than just once. Examples are shaming, trolling, debating concepts, sharing stories (you learned story types in week 2), aligning/bonding, critiquing, ingrouping, outgrouping, defaming. etc. etc.