I Am User Generated

Try and go a day without talking about Facebook, or referencing a YouTube video or somehow interacting with a piece of social media. It’s a Herculean task at times that even the most ardent Ludditte can’t avoid. How we sit around the fire and tell our stories has forever been altered by the social media landscape. But what stories are being told and how are they being told? Is social integration into the Internet, often referred to as Web 2.0, even worth all the talk that it garners? With the overwhelming dearth of media that is springing forth every second it’s easy to discount it all as pure media noise with no inherent value. However, if we understand a culture by the stories they tell, then we can’t discount the boom of content that the growing number of social media platforms enables.Over the past while I’ve been starting to see connections between how a oral culture told their stories and how social media stories are being told. In the following weeks I will dedicate some posts to exploring this connection further