Ass 3 Concept Statement
So the concepts we were exploring with our Pub Birthday Expedition were community/collaboration and also glitch. We knew that the 20-person group video chat wouldn't be easy to communicate on, and that would make talking a bit scattered (especially since we were only using that to communicate), and the whole event was based on voluntary group involvement (no one was compelled to come to the pub or join in on the celebration).
We wanted to explore the concept of birthdays on Facebook, and the limited & restricted interactions we usually have with them. So often people are satisfied with just posting a "HBD" or something similar for a friend's birthday, and we wanted to observe what everyone's interactions would be with each other together and also with Jackson on his birthday.
We also thought it would be interesting to have everyone interacting individually with the whole event through their own phone even when we could easily just have everyone be there physically. This was to demonstrate how it would be if we were all only interacting over Facebook (a digital disconnect).