What are the characteristics of the discussion which are outlined?
Do you have any norms and any rules, and
what is going on within this particular moment and within this particular context?
The third dimension we want to focus at is interactivity.
Do we have the timely response?
If it's instant communication, probably, social presence would be more obvious.
As when you are talking to real person offline, you do get response more or
less like in the same time and then we're moving on to the communication styles.
Are they different?
Do we have some sort of influences of the intracultural or
just different backgrounds which users might have within this communication?
What is the length of the messages?
Is it written in the formal or informal way?
It would influence the concept of the dimension of the interactivity so
it can influence the understanding of the presence of you
as an individual participating and the others as your audience or
your partners sort in this communication situation.
The size of the group would be also important
as well as the communication strategies.
So you need to keep in mind quite many aspects when you are talking about
social presence and when you are building the social presence within
a particular mediated platform within the particular technology.
But what can be the overall advises maybe some tips about surviving
in the global village?
As Clinton says, we do live in the global village right now.
We can be talking about maintaining networks on a daily basis.
With the whole concept of networked individualism, you cannot actually live
alone, and you cannot rely on the community which you have.
So you basically do want
to be closer with those who are essential members of your network right now.
But don't want to forget about those who are kind of gone
that you might get some need in them overall in some time.
We need to beware the timeless time.
As Castells would mention, his concept of what the timeless time is basically space.
We do have a new understanding of the mediated communication.
And we need to focus on the way, how do we
structure our everyday activities, as we can get lost in this timeless time.
So even though the time is not linear and you can maintain too many things
simultaneously, maybe sometimes it's better to focus on the essential ones and
those which are particularly important for you right now.
Check on your social network accounts.
And, yes, you do know that social networks are purpose and
part of the interest of quite many people.
When you were thinking about the work and you were applying for a job,
the HR specialist would most likely take a look at your social media profile.
What is the image which was transmitted there?
Who are you in the real life and during this job interview,
and who are you in your profile on Facebook?
That matters nowadays, and we do need to think about it.
Social networks and the real life communication, there was quite
an interesting experiment as one person would go out on the streets and
start behaving like on social media but in a real life situation.
So she would come to people and be like, okay, I'm following you now,
I am following you, I'm just interested in you and I just started following you.
The response of this people was quite interesting, and some of them would not
really accept what was obvious and quite all right within the social media.
In real time would seem quite outrage and
quite different and not really socially accepted.
So thinking about the patterns and
thinking about the media effect we discussed previously, how would our
patterns of using social media influenced our real life communication strategies.
Maybe we do adopt some sort of understanding through
the social media reality.
What's the importance of the Instagram and the way the how do you see the world?
Do you see it through the square pictures now or you do still
have a old school approach to what you were eating for your breakfast?
Are you going to post it or not?
So taking a look at how technology is changing you is quite interesting, and
just let's do a little bit of experiment.
When it comes to the creation of your communities,
we need to remember this identity bond and common bond.
As well as when we are going to participate in some sort of community.
Check out your reasons.
Why are you there?
And who is the part of this community?
Do you really want to be there?
And do you really want to give up a little bit of your identity just to
follow some sort of cooler identity of the group?