This video is an allegory that compares a community with social media. It's not so much the topic as the presentation - instead of giving us a dry and boring synopsis of what social means and can achieve, it found an analogy and uses simple animation and enthusiastic narration to get its point across.
The present study investigates identity construction on Facebook, a newly emerged nonymous online environment. Based on content analysis of 63 Facebook accounts, we find that the identities produced in this nonymous environment differ from those constructed in the anonymous online environments previously reported. Facebook users predominantly claim their identities implicitly rather than explicitly; they "show rather than tell" and stress group and consumer identities over personally narrated ones. The characteristics of such identities are described and the implications of this finding are discussed.
Identity construction on Facebook: Digital empowerment in anchored relationships Early research on online self-presentation mostly focused on identity constructions in anonymous online environments. Such studies found that individuals tended to engage in role-play games and anti-normative behaviors in the online world.
This article talks about how most people are not protected on the internet and it tells how people with accounts on the internet can protect themselves.
This source is not published through a newspaper, or research facility but yet by an individual man. Because of this I believe it gives valuable insight into how everyday people commonly view Facebook, and our identities.
