SOC202H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Cyberculture, Microsociology, Video Blog
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Lecture 8: digital culture june 7, 2016. Facebook identities are social identities that we actively construct. Social location shapes your present location online. Early internet theories saw the internet as utopian. Nakamura = studied places online where ppl could become anyone they wanted. There are racialized, class and gender stereotypes abinding. Sees the internet as a space of online performed identity. Identity tourism - you can play with different races (appropriate a different identity), but then drop those personas once offline. Your fb profile pic is in fact shaped by gender norms and how ppl receive other profile pics are also shaped by gender norms. Men shown with musical instruments more attractive to women. More positive impression of a woman"s fb pic if she"s dressed more modestly. Women also change their profile pics more often than men show how women are expected to care more about how they look. Constrained by these social location determiners unconsciously done.
