Today we had a guest lecture by Paul Hodkinson, department of sociology. He is from University of Surrey, U.K. He emphasized on social networking and identity. The lecture was about impact of social networking sites on youth. He said that previous researches in the topic dealt with male socialisation in public areas. But in 1976 McRobbie and Garber showed emphasis on girls and their ways of socialisation. The main topic in today lecture was how a bedroom acts as a virtual socialising network place. Your bedroom is like your own personalised place. You have private communications with individuals over the mobile phone or in person. You can also have virtual communication with friends over the internet.In the same manner social networking sites such as facebook and my space help you in creating a private space where you can hang out or stay in contact with your friends. Social networking sites are places where people gather publically through mediating technology. These sites lead to everyday interactions with the outside world just from your bedroom.
Then we had questions answered by the lecturer. Later in the tutorial we had a discussion regarding the lecture. The main question was about the privacy factor in social networking sites. People don’t want to share their information with everyone in their friend’s list. So they setup security settings as to who can access their files (pictures and videos) and who can’t. It was a great lecture and i learnt a lot about social networking sites.
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