Testing cultural inversion

Individualism and community

What does the word 'community' mean to you?

• People joined together
• a group of people
• friends or family
• politicians use it to focus on a group of people from a certain place
• government
  
• community service
• reputation of which community you are from.

Name any ‘online communities’ that either you or another is a part of;

1. Facebook
2. blogger
3. youtube
4. twitter
5. tumblr

Examine the different types of community members and compare one of your own online communities with youtube’s. Try to find out the similarities and differences between the two and any other ideas about ‘individualism’ and ‘community’
http://www.crackunit.com/2007/04/25/is-youtube-really-a-community/

• youtube- spoken word and you can guarantee the authenticity of the speaker. However with youtube it could be dubbed over and the issues and ideas the speaker is presented could be changed and faulted. Members of youtube are usually confident about their ideas they are presenting and in which they want to support their points with their opinions. With youtube anyone can view your video and as long as they have a youtube account they can comment on the video discussing your issues.
  

• Facebook- with facebook you cannot guarantee the authenticity of the people on there, however what they say or write is authentic because it cannot be changed. It can be changed however if the account is hacked by another person who can express other ideas that do not belong to the person. The members of facebook not necessarily want to express any of their ideas but they want to be part of a community or have a place to talk to friends at anytime or place. Also with Facebook you can control who visits your profile and look at your pictures. By the use of friends on there where you can add people you may or may not know and then you will be able to access them.

David Gauntlett

David Gauntlett (born 1971) is a British sociologist and media theorist. He specialises in the study of contemporary media audiences, the everyday making and sharing of digital media, and the role of such media in self-identity and self-expression.