Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Comment Culture HW
I commented on three different online stories/videos. My first two were on youtube videos, specifically the Christina Aguilera super bowl mistake video recording and a random vlog that someone had created. The third was on the Red Sox Spring training and the future season predictions. When I commented on the youtube videos I felt that my language could be more relaxed and if I wanted to pass judgment on the videos I could because my name wasn't going to be associated with my comment. I found that what we discussed in last weeks class held true. I was more relaxed about what I said in my comments because I didn't have to worry about being held responsible for them. However, when I commented on the Red Sox predictions story I was more careful with what I said. Maybe it is because I genuinely care about the Red Sox and I wanted to voice my opinion on the upcoming season. Even though I didn't choose to use my real name for this comment, I still wanted to sound educated and not ignorant on the topic, regardless of whether or not my name was on the comment. I looked back on these comments and none of them really started conversations. I think that for the Red Sox comment it was because people were doing what I was doing and were posting their own opinions based off of the story, and not about what other people wrote. The youtube videos were the same way, especially the Christina Aguilera video because people were just preoccupied with bashing her in their own words. When I commented on the three facebook posts I had a different mentality than when I was commenting on the other stories. These comments were between my friends and I and that made the commenting much more casual and relaxed than the other stories. The comments that I left on the facebook posts did spark conversations but they usually came from my other friends who were commenting. Commenting on the facebook posts came more naturally and felt less pressured than the comments I left on the youtube and Red Sox stories because I am more accustomed to commenting on facebook than I am on other news and youtube stories/vlogs.
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