Email this article Is the Community a Medium? Is “That’s Me!” the Message? The Story Of #Placevent: We Are Using Social Media to Hack the Academy
Abstract
University students attending socio-humanistic classes are frequently demanding an actual opportunity to apply their digital skills, their informal education and their innovative ideas about communications to local companies and public bodies. Their expectation is to find or to create job opportunities in a depressing national framework. In January 2013 we started a “Workshop for events planning and students’ placement”, quickly replaced with the hashtag #placevent. We run a research/action plan observing and collecting students’ self and community representation, using both digitalethnographic methods and assigning them problem-solving tasks. We suppose that ritual practices of the Internet interaction are developing, although these have not been codified, because in any community we can observe a process supporting and enhancing shared social meanings and identities. Additionally, we found that individuals may belong to and identify with more than one community contemporaneously and serially, changing affiliations with great fluidity. The main result of this activity is that students feel empowered by witnessing their belonging to a group promoting innovation through practices of communication, as well as by overlapping and matching networks of relationship and widening the community or engaging new shareholders.
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.7358/ijtl-2015-001-bazz
International Journal of Transmedia Literacy (IJTL)
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