Essay On Social Identity

In her book, It's Complicated, Danah Boyd expresses her views on modern-day social media and the modern-day teenager's reliability with it. The book is comprised of 8 enlightening categories: identity, privacy, addiction, danger, bullying, inequality, literacy, and searching for a public of their own. Throughout the book, Boyd provides data, true stories, and factual conversations to help support her main claim: social media has taken over our youth.

Ian Leslie’s article, “Google Makes Us All Dumber”, depicts how search engines like Google are making people have accustomed people to become dependent on finding answers to their question in a quick and easy matter. Leslie argues that the Internet is causing people to be less curious about learning new information because they know that any question they have can be answered within a fast Google

There are a lot of social problems that exists in the world today, which includes but do not limited to self identity and racism. However, they somehow go unnoticed because at times people conform to what society thinks is the way to live. In my opinion, people believe they should act or feel a certain way because of what is broadcast on television, featured in magazines, and even brought into the limelight by celebrities. While Toni Morrison’s “The Bluest Eye” (1970) and Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” (1973) both target ongoing social problems, Morrison structures her story to reveal just how pervasive and destructive social racism is, whereas Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use” focuses on the character’s conflicting ideas about their identities

For some, it does not seem important to make efforts to retain data, seeing that they possess an " electronic memory " capable of offering them any necessary information. Why strain our brain or memory when there is an also big and rich amount of information at our fingertips from any site? Many people think that to try to memorize an information which we can obtain in one, two clicks, is a waste of time. Hard drives have replaced the individual memory. Nowadays, for example, if we need to take knowledge of the works of a writer, we just have to write his name on the web, and we can even get explicit summaries about his works instead of reading the book itself and find our own explanations as formerly. “A study suggests that human memory is reorganizing where it goes for information, adapting to new technologies rather than relying purely on rote memory. We're outsourcing "search" from our brains to our computers…a new study confirms it: Google is altering your brain. More precisely, our growing dependence on the Internet has changed how -- and what -- our brains choose to remember. When we know where to find information, we're less likely to remember it” (Krieger, McClatchy); today’s society, we are called to deal with a lot of data on a daily basis, so some people prefer to rely on the internet, which is rich in ideas and quick to provide information, explanations, rather than do a job that could take a long time to perform; “In Plato’s Phaedrus, Socrates… feared that, as people came to rely on the written word as a substitute for knowledge they used to carry inside their heads, they would, in the words of one dialogue’s characters, “cease to exercise their memory and become forgetful” (Carr 59); If our brain become as "empty box", we cannot have our own point of view, considering that what we are supposed to have for knowledge is a part of our personality; make our own study is essential to the formation of our

Language is the potent tool by which a community constructs and defines its sociopolitical agenda; it is the lens through which a people’s history and culture is viewed; a devise that is used both as a controlling as well as a rewarding tool. Largely, it aligns the beliefs of its subjects even as it defines their worldview. While many studies have been done to understand obsequiousness,

As years pass by, technology takes over, giving quick solutions and plenty alternatives for "learning" . The problem or first resource of the current generation, so called Z , The Internet and the most common of all Google. Answers are given without the minimum research or effort. weakening the capacity of deep reading,learning and thinking turning the human brain into an "artificial intelligence" just as the author Nicholas Carr mentioned it in the article. In the process of learning, overcoming these distractions and shortcuts should be a priority. Spending more time investigating and acknowledging what is being asked for , not only in the education area, but also in the way people interact

Researching identity in social media lead to our group increasing our knowledge of the rise of a “new society”. In this “new society” people are no longer seen living their lives with social media; people now live in social media. Social media has become a part of our life that we cannot remove. People are so immersed in social media that they appear to be lost without it. In The Second Self by Sherry Turkle, Turkle looks at the computer as a part of our social and psychological lives. She sees the computer as not only a tool, but tries to understand how it is affecting our awareness of ourselves and our relationships with the world. She writes, “Technology catalyzes changes not only in what we do, but in how we think.”[1] Turkle analyzes technology’s role in the advancement of our society and how the once distinctive line between computers and humans is blurring. Three decades later, media researcher Danah Boyd, took the concept of new society and applied it to the lives of teenagers today, the age group

A famous search engine — Google ; is it really making us stupid? There are many threads regarding this issue. People believe it us making us think lazier and think less deeper. It is also said that while using Google we are distracted and aren’t attentive to the information we are receiving. However, 76% of experts researching this concept agreed that Google is not making us as unintelligent as people claim. In fact, it is very useful if you want to learn something new about any subject imaginable.

groups therefore prefer acquiescence to disagreement and compromise to conflict” (Forsyth, pg. 83). For example, we obliged to do what my captain asks and expect us to follow his orders, we cannot really complain or disagree since we are supposed to work together as a team. My group exemplified the social identity theory by working together and giving feedback to each other. In the textbook, the author wrote about the social identity theory, “A theoretical analysis of group processes and intergroup relations that assumes groups influence their members’ self-concepts and self-esteem, particularly when individuals categorize themselves as group members and identify with the group” (Forsyth, pg. 88). My team works together and we tend to give each other feedback. So that way we can improve and during the game, we often praise each other for doing a good job with

Social networking websites represent another popular form of new media. These mass communication technologies, Facebook as an example, enable users to connect and feel connected to others, as well as provide a virtual space for self-reflection. The anonymity of social networking websites allows users to experience multiple identities. According to the article, “Facebook, Anonymity, and The Crisis of the Multiple Self”, Facebook anonymity is “a way to recoup an energy of metamorphosis, the desire to become someone else” (Lovink 46). Users of social media sites tend to display different self-images to explore different identities or to seek self-development, which may be misinterpreted as fake. Since the perception of ‘the Self’ changes over time, “social media should be seen as only the latest incarnation” of oneself according to the Israeli sociologist Eva Illouz (41).

Social identities are a way in which a person’s physical appearance can be presented to others within society. The ability to recognize their own social identities can be seen as a way for an individual to recognize another’s social identities. Through these identities, opportunity for self-reflection within individuals can occur in order to help determine which identities they align with, so that this will help them in being more aware of their own and another individual’s identification. Having an awareness of other’s social identities, recognizing one’s own social group memberships, and evaluating which identities are more identifiable or more challenging in the eyes of another, were themes experienced within this interview. Distinguishing these various classifications of identification help in understanding why and how an individual responds to certain triggers. With Grace McDonald, the interviewee, she identifies as the following: Young adult, Caucasian American, middle class, heterosexual female that is able-bodied and practices Christianity as a religion. Grace’s social identities are important in explaining why she feels oppressed or privileged in certain situations that she encounters. Through reflection after this interview, she has also been able to appreciate the amount of diversity she has.

Originally proposed by Tajfel and Turner, the Social Identity Theory (SIT) can be described as the comparison between the individual self and the social self. More specifically, it is the individual’s perception that is derived from their membership of a social group (ingroups and outgroups) or personal identities. The theory is divided into three different psychological mechanisms: social categorization, social comparison, and the tendency for people to use the group membership as a source to gain self-esteem. A theory is defined as a theory as long as it meets the two requirements: describing behaviors and the ability to describe/see the future behaviors of individuals. Since the behaviors of individuals can be based on the social

SIT (Tajfel et al., 1971; Tajfel & Turner, 1979) has been explained briefly in the Introduction, which provided an overview on the nature of its construction (Galang et al., 2015) and its implications on ingroup inclusion, intergroup behavior, and self-esteem (Brewer & Yuki, 2007). This theory is further discussed here, particularly its conception of group identification and esteem, to give context to BIRG and the framework of analysis that will be used to analyze the phenomenon.

The question of identity has always been a central theme for many, in particular the youth. Today, as we enter a new age of Internet technology, the quest for defining oneself has shifted online. While many, especially the younger generation, embrace the liberation that digital communities offer, others are apprehensive of the dangers that lurk in the virtual world. The anxiety is not entirely unjustified. Nevertheless, the truth is the benefits that accompany online communities far outweigh its drawbacks. According to Daniel Chandler, author of “Identities under Construction”, and Danah Boyd, an American researcher known for her works on social network sites, online tools such as personal home page and MySpace are efficacious instruments

In a Nicholas Carrs essay ”Is Google Making us Stupid?” he expresses that the webs job is to scatter our attention and diffuse our concentration and I encountered this multiple times when reading an article on national Geographic about the African elephants. I could not seem to absorb any information while attempting to read the article due to pop up links and other distractions in the sidebar. In his essay I believe he brings up some very good points with addressing his concern with a unique perspective and outlook on Google. He brings up an interview from 2004 with Newsweek Brian, an employee of Google who states “ certainly if you had all of the world information directly touch your brain or an artificial brain that was smarter than your