Round Table Discussion

Group Discussion:

A: Overarching Theories

-Affordances

-Imagined Audience

-Self representation

-FOMO

B: Overarching Themes

-Social Media, not just for individual self representation -Negative implications come from misrepresentations from mass-media’s

-Social media reaches out to a specific-targeted audience

-Social media can allow you to create an identity based on an ‘imagined audience’

-Be ‘yourself’ on social media without the fears of cyber-bulling, stereotyping and pressures of gaining a certain social status

- social media platforms gives us opportunities to launch our careers in new ways than was possible before

C: Common Ideological Connections

-Social issues/movements

-fear, anxiety, FOMO

-Building Community

-Social media and audience perception

D: How We'll Use What We've Learned

-We will look more critically at the way we engage and represent ourselves via Social Media.

-We will use social media to reflect positive community and representation, and not reflect negatively

-social media platforms/technologies allow us to have social support in other ways than traditionally thought of.