Two things I have learned throughout the years are this: Myspace nowadays is a pretty terrible social network, and I hate the Daniel Defoe novel Robinson Crusoe. Under normal circumstances, these two statements would be completely unrelated, but in this case I want to use the bizarre similarities between them to help form the creative… Continue reading Creative Project Proposal
Month: July 2019
Research Paper Rough Draft
Myspace is a website which had a rather dramatic fall from grace. What was once the most popular social media site on the globe for several years now stands as a ghost town–a remnant of the pre-Facebook era of social media. The site has gone through multiple iterations, and several changes in ownership, which has… Continue reading Research Paper Rough Draft
Annotated Bibliography
Boyle, Kris, and Thomas J. Johnson. "MySpace is your space? Examining self-presentation of MySpace users." Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 26, no. 6, Nov. 2010, pp. 1392-99. Science Direct, doi:10.1016/j.chb.2010.04.015. This article acts as a study of self-presentation in social media, done by analyzing the information found on public profiles on MySpace, which, at the… Continue reading Annotated Bibliography
Creating My Space
I don’t remember the first time I heard of Myspace. Or MySpace–whatever I should call it (such bold rebranding). Though, to be fair, I didn’t use much of the Internet or digital media at all except for video games during my childhood, when Myspace would have been popular, so I cannot say that my not… Continue reading Creating My Space
Introductions
I'm honestly not sure there's much to say about my new site, as it is. I want a simple, intuitive layout. For homework purposes, I have the "blog home" and "projects" pages, to distinguish between smaller posts and discussions, and larger assignments that deserve their own category. The homepage should display the most recent posts,… Continue reading Introductions
Harrison Bloom 