[COM CO 101] - Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (28 pages long!)

• School: Boston University
• Department: Core Courses
• Course: COM CO 101
• Professor: Tammy Vigil

Document Summary

4 key properties: persistence, searchability previous to date, replicability can take screenshots. Manipulated lose control once putting info online: scalability tweeting at someone goes much further than just the person you @ Random people that do not follow you but still end up seeing your tweets, etc: collapsed contexts. Professional needs to be aware of when posting on connecting social media: blurring of public and private. Raunchy tweets in 2009: felt it wasn"t fair to hold comedians up to such political knowledge. For every user, the value of the network matters. Free at the beginning because they need us: value of the network. Technological features: pictures upload and view others tagging , birthdays, articles. What are we getting out of facebook: keep in touch across the world, keeping up with people, liking and commenting. What does fb get from us: all of our information to sell it to advertisers. Determines what we see on our newsfeeds.