Another case would be, the freedom of speech and consumer's right is more and more significant nowadays thus consumer would actually have the guts to voice out their opinion and control or direct the incident's discussion. In Johnson's article, it mention about how twitter changes our life where he pointed out the reason of people are so obsessed of twitter. A technology writer, Clive Thompson did said about "ambient awareness" which is mean by the get to know a person's daily routine, they will be strangely satisfy with the acknowledgement. Twitter replace the awkwardsness of people who actually curious on "what is he/she doing?Shall i call and ask?" This would be annoying if 3-5 people called me in the morning and ask me "hey,what are you eating right now?" This is totally odd but at the same time, people will have the strange feeling of wanting to know it. Thus, twitter helps to solve this awkwardness and curiousity of people.
"It's not twitter doing to us, its what we doing to it" -Johnson 2009
Network will never change human's perspective but is how people bring in the trend and direct the position of the social network. Instead of using blog to express an essay long of feeling towards something, twitter is much more easier by just summarizing 140charcters to express your feeling. Besides, i believe by the time you have a feeling to be express and type in blog, the mood will change as time goes by. I always experience a moment where there are lots of words would like to express but by the time i type out the whole draft, i lost the feel and rethink it in second thought, "why would i write in a such way?" This post will never post up as it has become meaningless. However, twitter is totally different. By using 140character, you be able to express your opinion in the most summarize and effective way. at the same time, people will respond to you quickly as 140character is long enough for people to understand you at that moment.
In conclusion, twitter changes our life by using a short and brief explanation and also ability to react quick in network brings an advantage to citizen journalism to express,report and respond to particular topic. It is again, no right and wrong but is depending on how individual expressing themself.
That's indeed a nice line from Johnson saying that it's not twitter that is doing to us but is what we doing it.
ReplyDeleteI pretty sure Twitter is not the first platform for people to post comments/ updates on, but somehow it is the first one that went completely viral. Everyone just tweet anything thing that's on their mind. We can actually stop that from happening but somehow the trend goes on and people started to think as if it is necessary to do that if we want to be include in the "trend".
Taking into account that twitter only limit 140 characters, it made everything even more direct. Instead of giving all the "nice lines" before they go to the main point, people post the incident straight away. Guess that is why it is more favorable for the citizens to use it? Because it's direct!
I agree with your points there. Everyone can become the "citizen journalism". Actually this happens in our daily life, everyday got new breaking news and people tend to share the news and upload the photo to Twitter. Thus, it has affected people not to read the newspaper and caused them to use high gadget to log on to Twitter everytime. Sometimes, it could not be twitter but other social networking sites too.
ReplyDeleteI am agree that people used Twitter to solve their curiosity. People now check their Twitter constantly just to stalk the person they want. I personally think this is invading a person's privacy but the situation here is, everyone willing to share their privacy to everyone. It is a weird thing isn't? People used to keep their privacy tightly in old days, but people now share their privacy everyday, every time, every where. This can shows how Twitter changes people's life.
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