As an assigned reading this lovely weekend I read Stuart Greene’s Argument as Conversation. Although this reading was long, it engrained into my head two key things my high school teachers NEVER let me forget about research writing, and quite honestly writing in general. 1) have dialogue between your sources and 2) framework. framework. framework.
So back to my real life outside of doing homework… this week I decided to throw my phone away (into a drawer) and live for myself for once (ooh revolutionary!). As I went onto Facebook for the first time in a few weeks I noticed the ads to my right, and then a twitter trending post… on Facebook – see below.
Source: Facebook
In a bigger picture sense of what I am trying to say, I saw two sources (social media sources Facebook and Twitter) having a conversation about what is happening in the world. And as frame work Facebook put links onto the twitter trends to Facebook articles about them. In this way I believe social media may actually be trying to get the users to care about something other than their likes on their posts…. the world.
Source: PopKey
So starting this week I am going to be more aware of where the information I get comes from, and how it may be working with other outlets (cough cough Syrian chemical attack news via President Trumps twitter or via USA Today or via a Syrian news outlet etc etc and what their job is to display (entertainment? background? data? opinions?). And that, my friends, links back to BEAM! Wow this world is small!
*queue It’s a Small World After all theme song *