andrews keen

wrote digital vertigo in 2012 to show the awareness of the future of technology and how today online social revolution is, dividing, diminishing, and disorientation us.

• the current technology culture is having an adverse effect on society
• in his book it targets the negatives of social media and the impact it can have
• technology is making us lose all privacy of the inner self
• try and make the internet more habitable 
• humans have always been narcissistic, we have always loved the thought of ourself. the internet enables us to think a lot of ourself and exaggerates narcissism. 
• "we are losing something essential about what it means to be human"

Essay plan 1-theory leas

basic ingredients for the whole essay- 

• dress the question immediately, give a definition to what collected identity is- "a shared definition of a social group" say what collective identity you have studied.
• theorists/academic ideas and terminology-hegemony 
• past present and future case study 

theorists- 

• Stanley Cohen- how we do not see the whole picture (quadrophonic)
• David Hebdige- subcultures, historical paragraph
• Greg Philo- hoodie horror, middle class anxiety and this is how hoodie horror scares you. 
• Henry Giroux- "the reported media of the youth does not represent the truth"
• Charles Acland- idea of protection, media representation shows that they have authority.
• Thomas De Zengotita- "everything that we know about the world is from the media"

pick positive case study and the negative  

paragraph 1- historical 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s, naughty (2000), up to 2012

• 50s teddy boys, mods and rockers- quadrophina- shows the groups leading onto violence and rebellious ways
• stanley cohan- studied all sides of the argument, and wrote about moral panic 

paragraph 2- idea 1

• de zangotita- everything we know comes from the media
• media over the past 5 years 
• trying to be more understanding 
• what has happened recently 
• remember with the representations, its not an accurate representation (explain why)
• giroux- the media of the youth does not represent the truth 

paragraph 3- idea 2 positive

• talk about your positive case study 
• kingsman
• vulnerable teens that turn things around 

paragraph 4- idea 3 negative

• case study
• undatables
• media representations that are bad

paragraph 5- internet

• definition
• give examples of the internet
• adults concerns
• negatives of the internet and online media and the effects case study (in real life white characters of the internet)(BBC children not getting enough time outside)(end of the F world- throws her phone on the phone as her friend texts her from across the table)
• positive of the internet and online media and the effects- role models and the platforms that can be used

paragraph 6- future 

• her (loneliness due to phones in the future talking to our technology)
• black mirror (everything down to likes and social media followers)
• Andrew keen- internet great but hosting irrelevant content will ruin it. digital narcissism, called digitalvertago- how todays online social revolution is dividing, diminishing, and disorienting us. 
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june 2009 exam analysis

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