BY: MARIANNE, HANNAH AND MARILENA

VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP AND THE NEW NARCISSISM

The rich and the powerful documented

their existence and their status

through painted portraits.

Portraits offer intriguing hints

about the daily life of their subjects.

They offer opportunities

for both self-expression and self-seeking.

VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP AND THE NEW NARCISSISM

Today, our self-portraits are

democratic and digital.

We create them to find friendship,

love, and that ambiguous

modern thing called connection.

VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP AND THE NEW NARCISSISM

The best-known social networking site

is--------------------FACEBOOK,

launched in 2004.

THE WORLD IS NOW AN ADDICT

VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP AND THE NEW NARCISSISM

FACEBOOK HAS MORE THAN 800 MILLION USERS AND IS THE LARGEST SOCIAL

NETWORK THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN!!!!!!!

VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP AND THE NEW NARCISSISM

Like painters constantly retouching

their work, we alter, update,

and tweak our online

self-portraits.

Vital statistics, glimpses of bare flesh,

lists of favorite bands and

favorite poems all clamor

for our attention.

VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP AND THE NEW NARCISSISM

The Delphic oracle’s guidance was know thyself.

Today,

in the world of online social networks,

the oracle’s advice might be show thyself.

VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP AND THE NEW NARCISSISM

IS IT REALLY YOU??

ARE YOU REALLY THAT POPULAR??

……LIAAAAAAAAR!

VIRTUAL FRIENDSHIP AND THE NEW NARCISSISM

One Facebook group with over 200,000 members is called

“Enough with the Poking, Let’s Just Have Sex.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvQcabZ1zrk

A REAL LIFE UPDATE.

CLAY SHIRKY!!!

WHY ABUNDANCE IS GOOD: A REPLY TO NICK CARR

The mechanisms of media affect the native of thought.

The heart of ‘Is Google making us stupid?’ is about culture.

Carr uses as references ‘War and Peace’ the longest novels in canon.

There is cultural sacrifice in the transformation of the media landscape.

WHY ABUNDANCE SHOULD BREED OPTIMISM: A SECOND REPLY TO NICK CARR

Every past technology I know of has increased the number of producers of written material.

The increased volume and availability of writing is leading not to wisdom but to triviality and distractions.

The young are abandoning the classical in favour of the vulgar.

Technologies that make writing abundant always requires new social structures to accompany them.

We have a challenge before us in figuring out how to keep distractions of the net at bay, now that new material is no longer hard to discover or access.

GOOGLE!!Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

Google is the most widely used search engine.

Google is now an official verb being added to the English language dictionary.

FINANCING AND INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERING

Google's initial public offering (IPO)

took place on August 19, 2004.

The company offered 19,605,052 shares

at a price of $85

per share.

GOOGLE DATA CENTERS

As of 2011, Google Inc. owned and operated six data

centers across the U.S.,

plus one in Finland and

another in Belgium.

Google said they will be operational

within two years.

PRODUCTIVITY TOOLS

In addition to its standard web search services,

Google has released a number of online productivity tools. Gmail,

a free webmail service provided by Google, was launched as an

invitation-only beta program on April 1, 2004, and became

available to the general public on February 7, 2007.

IS GOOGLE MAKING US STUPID?

“Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes. A few Google searches, some quick clicks on hyperlinks, and I’ve got the

telltale fact or quote I was after.” Carr p.64

“ Media are not just passive channels of information, they supply the stuff of thought, but they also shape the process of thought”

CONT’D…

The Internet is a machine designed for the efficient and automated collection, transmission, and manipulation of information, and its legions of programmers are intent on finding the “one best method” the perfect algorithm to carry out every mental movement of what we’ve come

to describe as “knowledge work.” Carr p. 71

IS GOOGLE MAKING US STUPID?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuC8Er2qdbk

WHAT DO YOU THINK??

1. Does this technology, with its constant demands to collect (friends and status) and perform (by marketing ourselves), in some ways undermine our ability to attain what it promises—a surer sense of who we are and where we belong?

2. HOW WOULD YOU DO YOUR HOMEWORK WITHOUT GOOGLE??? :O hehe (DO YOU THINK GOOGLE IS MAKING US STUPID?!)

3. …