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Week 6: Digital Communities

What is a digital community?

The concept of a 'public sphere' was introduced by German philosopher Habermas (1964) as a way to explain the social and technological changes that were occurring in society at the time. In particular however, it looked at the way that the introduction of mass media influenced the opinions that were being expressed, the problems of general concern that were discussed, and how solutions were developed (Wesler 2018).

Social media is considered to have revitalised the public sphere. The nature of digital and social media platforms that exist across the web mean that users have free access to information and the full capability to contribute if they desire. Furthermore, the nature of sites such as these mean that content is minimally or not at all restricted, offering places for individuals to contribute unreservedly.

This leads us to the concept of a digital community. A number of platforms function as digital communities. From Facebook to Reddit, and Tumblr (among many others) who all have unique characteristics and 'personalities'. These 'personalities' are what define the content, the contributors, and the style used to share opinions, thoughts or ideas. Thus, communities are formed online that may otherwise not have been able to exist, bringing individuals together across cultural, geographic or any number of barriers.

How does Tumblr function as a digital community?

If personified, I believe Tumblr would be the radical, the non-conformist and the political individual who has strong and select interests, and they really want to share them.

According to Tumblr (2020), they are the place 'where your interests connect you with your people'. You can do this through joining millions of others in '#tags' or reblogging posts that interest you in order to make commentary or start a conversation. As of April 2020, there were over 496.1 million individual blogs posted to the site.

While there is an astounding number of individuals remaining on Tumblr, over 472 million (Clement 2019) they have seen massive rates of decline in recent years. Between 2018 and 2019 the average number of unique visitors to the site per month dropped by 21.2%. They have also seen that individuals are spending less time on the site and are viewing fewer pages (Tiffany 2019). This can be attributed to a number of reasons, mainly due to the banning of explicit content on the website, and a stricter policy trying to remove or diminish some popular communities.

Whether justified or not, it was these actions that led to Tumblr's decline in popularity. While they still play house to many subcultures, from 'The Sims' to 'photography' and 'fitness', many view the shift from the platform as something that undermined the entire fabric of the site, irrespective of the content being posted. This seemed like a shift away from the free and accepting public sphere it once was.

#social sphere #social theory #Habermas #social media #digital communities #maybe Tumblr could be cool again

Henri Lefebvre has considerable claims to be the greatest living philosopher. His work spans some sixty years and includes original work on a diverse range of subjects, from dialectical materialism to architecture, urbanism and the experience of everyday life. The Production of Space is his major philosophical work and its translation has been long awaited by scholars in many different fields. The book is a search for a reconciliation between mental space (the space of the philosophers) and real space (the physical and social spheres in which we all live). In the course of his exploration, Henri Lefebvre moves from metaphysical and ideological considerations of the meaning of space to its experience in the everyday life of home and city. He seeks, in other words, to bridge the gap between the realms of theory and practice, between the mental and the social, and between philosophy and reality. In doing so, he ranges through art, literature, architecture and economics, and further provides a powerful antidote to the sterile and obfuscatory methods and theories characteristic of much recent continental philosophy. This is a work of great vision and incisiveness. It is also characterized by its authors wit and by anecdote, as well as by a deftness of style which Donald Nicholson-Smiths sensitive translation precisely captures.

In his classical text "The Production Of Space", #HenriLefebvre tries to bridge the gap between the #Mental space, the space of the philosophers, and real space, the #Physical and #Social spheres in which we all live.

#The Production Of Space #Henri Lefebvre #Mental Space #Physical Sphere #Social Sphere

I’m so very blown away by the idea that our culture lives under Dichotomy - there are cat lovers, there are dog lovers. there’s “yes” and “no”. there’s right and wrong there’s black and white.

Everyone forgets there are shades of gray. Simplification has become our new norm. Its the Aziz Ansari situation that has reminded me of this.

#new york times has got me angry #glossing over details makes me angry #there's never just two side of the equation #social sphere #atmosphere #aziz ansari

Saka (Sokaklardaki Su Taşıyıcıları)

Saka ou Porteur d'Eau par les rues - Saka or water carrier by the streets

Title - Saka, itinerant water seller Başlık - Saka, gezici su satıcısı

Date - Tarih 1714

Bibliographic Citation - Bibliyografik Künye

[VAN MOUR, Jean Baptiste]. Recueil de cent estampes representant differentes nations du Levant tirees sur les tableaux peints d’après Nature en 1707, et 1708 par les Ordres de Mr. de Ferriol ambassadeur du Roi a la Porte, et gravées en 1712, et 1713 par les soins de M. Le Hay, ce recueil ce vend A Paris…, Avec privilège du Roi, Paris, 1714. Collection of one hundred prints representing different nations of the Levant drawn on paintings, painted after Nature in 1707, and 1708 by the Orders of Mr. de Ferriol, ambassador of the King to the Porte, and engraved in 1712, and 1713 by the care of M The Hay, this collection sells in Paris ..., Privileged by the King, Paris, 1714.

Page - Sayfa 59

Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation Library Source: http://eng.travelogues.gr/item.php?view=42984

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The ways of social marketing to generate more leads for a successful business.

The gaining popularity of the social marketing with the web users, are providing a platform for business of all sizes to reach consumers today. The social websites like Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Youtube are providing such platforms. Social marketing can be used in many numbers of ways to promote and market a business. It may include anything from customer service to ad campaigns. Apart from business promotion, many companies are using social marketing as an effective tool for generating leads and thus attracting new customers. So the question arises of how you can use social marketing for lead generation? This article provides you with five suggestions to create new interest in your business and bring in new leads from social websites. 1. Lead Users to Your Content At times a social media post does not provide enough information too much more that pique a user’s interest. It's completely practiced to link every social post, to the highest rated contents on your website, which displays your masterpiece and explains the benefits your are providing. There are two things possible from this, either your visitor will turn into a happy customer or will be converted into a new lead. 2.Cross-Promote Your Social Platforms

Creating a social profile is easy, just like your website but you always needs to be active on your social profile in order to promote your business properly. You can’t just let your customers sit there, like the way they are sitting on your website. Not being active and expecting users to find your ads of their own is actually you are fooling yourself. The social icons must be added to the home page of your blogs so that they can be recognized easily. Adding RSS and links to all your social profiles is a must for cross-promoting your social platforms. This enables the user to see all your social profile as well. Links can be seen in email signature which leads to let's say twitter ads, a smart step towards social marketing. 3.Use a Content Pipeline You must be wondering what a content pipeline is? Is is very similar to a sales pipeline, the only difference is instead of filling it with leads, you need to fill it with quality content which can be posted to your social profiles. The main thing over here is to increase the trafficking on your social profile and you must possess something always ready to go out on your social profile, so to attract new followers and encourage them to click on your links. 4.Answer Questions and Respond Quickly Its your duty to maintain a good relationship with your visitors. If they post a comment make sure your comment back thanking them, and it will be very good for your business if you try to engage them with a simple inquiry like asking about their business and all. Here again while answering the question you get a chance to post the links of the contents on your websites so users can find more detailed information and might be they turn out to be your new customers. 5.Monitor Your Reputation Regularly Responding to negative feedback gives you an opportunity to alter the customer’s bad experience into a positive one. This can be done by regularly monitoring what people are saying about you in your social sphere. It's your duty to take care of your customers and by doing so, it will have a positive impact in your social sphere. You can come up with offers to help solve problems. This offer may include coupons or other perks, which builds a positive reputation for your company. 6.Maximize Your Social Marketing Strategy Its a tough challenge to find new leads and new customers, but with the growing business, it has become easy to generate new leads by using social networking (twitter leads) sites. Thus, engaging visitors in your social sphere. You just need to make sure you add new links and contents on a regular basis, responding to comments and questions and guiding your visitors back to your websites can maximize the impact of your social sphere. This makes your social marketing strategy one of the top-performing marketing for your business.

#leads #social marketing #social sphere #twitter ads

I am not sure where and how I will build a new social sphere from the ground up. I am obviously not there yet, but I feel that I need to think about this and address it. My social life is NIL. Where, really, do I begin?

#Moi #social sphere

Social Sciences Essays, a Brief Account

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Essay is very common writing practice; students since their childhood have been occasional various sorts on essays alone there are some features that make them distinctive from other graduate writing chores.Primary distinguishing feature is the need with respect to evidence for supporting an wrangling, particularly evidence that is the product of logical and judicious cut and try. Another exclusive characteristic is use of image in an essay to assemble the explanations about how social world works. The regularity of a social field of study matter is predominantly same as other writing assignment and consists in regard to title, introduction, main section, conclusion and list on references. Discussion of an essay is completely based wherefore usual and naturalistic facts, one has to remember the fact that social sciences is the earthy and systematic study of human social scenario, every related fighting is aimed headed for melt at an enduring forethoughtful pertinent to the problem and remedial of this reason researcher and diseur either have tenure of to arrive at broad agreement of all.<\p>

This thing womanizer at any rate be possible by using comprehensive and reliable evidence in support of arguments used in an study. Without presenting evidence, a social science venture upon cannot be considered so complete and perfect. It is by the board to support a rubber, belief or supposing about social world. Claim should be specified for like this study is too broad and not singular themes are interrelated therefore, dig into problem or derivative title should limited and a great deal precise in order to avoid generalized discussion.<\p>

As a whole students commit not singular common errors in their social sciences discussion. Students's primary concern is how till bring into play their come clean words into the discussion and this rift leads to the failure to answer the why. At alumnus and preschool burn down, students are expected to subsistent their express general agreement interpretation of any social concept.<\p>

One's own words are on top of influential than other's statements just the same it is crucial because it can only be the case possible when writer has complete love of a topic. To account for and analyze a social science theme, writer's personal explanation reflects his understanding relating to issue and modern concern, writer cannot present a better solution of a problem and could not tag after the try it on goals aforetime his resultant labor would be taken as useless exercise.<\p>

Social science essay requires particular social scientific skills; the most obvious of these skills is the natural gift as far as organize a theory and evidence according to one's in seisin perception along with social religious concepts and science dictionary. Writers of these essays must be well aware of regular development in the global and social sphere considering there are many phenomena that are replacing antiquated ones and procurance their yoke with in the framework. A writer cannot give utterance meticulous punch in reference to his essay unless he is not a cautious thinker and a well-informed social entity.<\p>

#particular social scientific #social world #well-informed social entity #sciences essay #social sphere

I wish people did not have the intuitive ability to detect how socially depraved you are, and how desperate your whole being is to connect.

I feel like I would not be deemed automatically defect.

#Sigh #Moi #Social Sphere #Life #Defunct Being