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Stories & Hashtags

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- 1StoriesAnything told or recounted
An act of textual production
We tell stories on social media - 2Ambient audiencePotential listeners/readers/viewers of your social media text
- 3What is the story about?

- 4Stories audience

- 5Nature of storiesStatus
Solitary (alone) - 6Types of stories- Recount
- Anecdote
- Exemplum
- Observation
- Narrative - 7Types of stories: RecountRecord of events
Record a sequence of events as a way of sharing experience - 8Types of stories: AnecdoteRemarkable event
Detail some remarkable disruption to usuality, which is not resolved but simply reacted to
An emotional reaction - 9Types of stories: ExemplumIncident
Like an anecdote, but instead of just reacting, an interpretation is made (usually in the form of moral judgement)
Affect - 10Types of stories: ObservationEvent description
Describe an event followed by a personal comment on its positive or negative value
Own experiences - 11Types of stories: NarrativeComplication
Resolves a complication (some disruptive event)
Hero stories
Stages of orientation, complication and resolution - 12Social media story types: RecountsSeries of activities
Past sense
(e.g. Instagram's Stories) - 13Social media story types: AnecdoteDisrupting event
(e.g. emergency alert and the reaction or description of what happened) - 14Social media story types: ExemplumDisrupting event
Interpreted by moral judgement
Commentary - 15Social media story types: ObservationPersonal comment on an event
(e.g. judgements, comments, reviews etc.) - 16Social media story types: NarrativeQuite humorous and playful sometimes
Complication
Resolution - happily ever after - 17Visual storytelling in social media: 1. Sharing images to talk about themIf someone from the outside wouldn't know what the images are until explained
- 18Visual storytelling in social media: 2. Share images to tell a story visuallyEspecially on Snapchat
Image tells the story itself - 19Visual storytelling in social media: 3. Phatic photo sharingSmall-talk, conversation, community talking, social bonding, ambient affiliation
- 20'Shareability'Affordances of social media platforms
"An architectural feature of networked structures that encourages sharing over withholding information"
Affordance supporting the telling of public stories with social media on a mass scale - 21SharingA social practice for communicative practice
- 223 means of sharing on social media1. Telling
2. Having common ground
3. Action of clicking share button - 233 means of sharing on social media: 1. TellingCommunicative dimension of sharing
- 243 means of sharing on social media: 2. Having a common groundAffiliative dimension
- 253 means of sharing on social media: 3. Action of clicking share buttonSocio-technical dimension
- 26Facebook & sharingDirecting users to share information with other users through purposefully designed interfaces
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sharing user data with third parties - 27ConnectednessShare information with other users
(e.g. friends, PYMK, News Feed, etc.) - 28ConnectivitySharing user data with third parties
- 29Social media narrativesUser's profile is a biography chronicling one's life up to present time
A retroactive chronological ordering of life events - 30Frictionless sharingAccommodate users' convenience when they move from one platform to other platforms without hitting an another key or needing an extra click
- 31Attention economyAttention means eyeballs or (unconscious) exposure
- 32Evaluative commentary in hashtagse.g. #WhinyLittleBitch
Evaluative stance as well as presenting a potential bond with which the ambient audience may or may not align with - 33The Appraisal Frameworkhow evaluative language functions in situational and cultural contexts
- 34The Appraisal Framework 3 dimensions1. Attitude
2. Graduation
3. Engagement - 35The Appraisal Framework 3 dimensions: 1. Attitudewhereby a particular evaluation is construed
- 36The Appraisal Framework 3 dimensions: 2. Graduationwhereby that evaluation is modulated
(e.g. scaling up or down in intensity) - 37The Appraisal Framework 3 dimensions: 3. Engagementwhereby the evaluation enters into relationship with other potential stances
(e.g. endorsing or discrediting a viewpoint) - 38EvaluationA complex semantic domain
Implicates particular value positions - 39Befriendingbonds in social life as well as weak ties and latent ties
- 40Popularitynumber of followers
- 41The Appraisal Framework: Attitude elementsAffect: Anecdotes - emotional response, feelings (e.g. #ILoveTrump or #Terrified)
Judgement: assessing someone's behaviour based on societal norms and ethics (e.g. #HowDareYou or #StupidTrump)
Appreciation: assessments of things, personal reactions or assessing things or events (e.g. #FunnyStory or #GoodDay) - 42The Appraisal Framework: Graduation elementsForce: quantifying attitude
using numbers, exaggeration, 'very'
(e.g. #BiglyStupid)
Focus: sharping or blurring the boundaries of someone
(e.g. #realissues or #ActNow) - 43The Appraisal Framework: Engagement elementsMonogloss: a statement, one interpretation is very clear, no possibility for another interpretation
(e.g. #fact, #ClimateChangeIsReal or #true)
Heterogloss: not sure, not determined
(e.g. #mightbetrue or #possibly) - 44Types of Affect(Un)Happiness
(In)Security
(Dis)Satisfaction - 45Types of judgementSocial esteem: normality, capacity, tenacity
Social sanction: veracity, properity - 46Types of AppreciationReaction: feelings to things
Composition: e.g. balanced, fair, not coherent
Valuation: what's important
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- Flashcards on Stories & Hashtags, created by Tina Tsianakas on 05/11/2019.
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