Blog 4

Introduction: 
"For Ronnie, social network sites are intricately woven into the tapestry of his daily literacy practices; they play a large role in how we interacts with others in his personal and professional life as well as how he presents himself to different audiences." (pg. 9)
-Buck is realizing that for Ronnie social media plays a big role in how he interacts with others. For my paper I have seen that my partner uses social media to interact with the photography role. 


"1) How does this writer integrate social network sites into his everyday literacy practices? 2) How does this writer use those literacy practices to represent his identity for multiple audience groups on social network sites? 3) How does this writer negotiate site interfaces to represent his identity and communicate with others?" (pg. 10)
-This quote from the Buck article gives me an idea as to what I need to focus on while I am collecting data for my paper, kind of gets my ideas flowing. 

Methods: 
"The information discussed in the profile tour gave me an overall sense of how Ronnie perceived his own identity representation online, some history behind that representation, and his perspective on what those representations meant to him." (pg. 13)
- Before I was able to watch my partner's profile tour I wasn't able to grasp the entire idea of his social media use. So this quote's wording is spot on to how I felt after I watched the tour. 

"Collecting data from these various sources allowed me to develop a multifaceted picture of literate activity in connection with social network sites." (pg. 13)
- This quote is true, I needed various sources to get a better idea/picture to figure out what direction I was headed for the paper and how I wanted to share my partners information I gathered. 

"Ronnie described himself as a "publisher," someone who creates content online for others." (pg. 14)
- In this section of Buck's article he talks about how you are a consumer or a publisher on social media, and my partner is a publisher for sure! I never thought about users on social media as a publisher or consumer. 

Results: 
"Representing or cultivating one's identity through social network sites is an activity that happens through every tweet and every message sent." (pg. 14)
- This is worded beautifully and very true! Each post we share is a part of our identity.

"For Kirkland, social network sites like MySpace allow young black women space to tell their stories and represent their perspectives through narrative. Sanderson argues that computer mediated communication also allows writers to shaper the message presented about them in online spaces." (pg. 15)
- Social media is a way to share who we are and who we represent. During this writing process and gathering of data I have been able to see my partners identity shine through the simple messages on his posts. 

Discussion: 
"I guess it's some sort of a statement. So many people just kind of go with what's on Facebook and trust it. There's really no basis other than assuming people are honest." (pg. 31)
- This was interesting to read, because not being understood can be one of the worst things. And if you post something with the idea its a good thing and other interpret it as a bad thing you can't change their minds unless they comment on your post. 

"Because Ronnie used social network sites to organize different aspects of his life, he was particularly attuned to the different ways in which his information was dispersed and used, and this was a process that he wanted to have control over." (pg. 31)
 -My partner uses his Instagram to post images that are on his blogs and tells his followers to go to his blog link to in his bio to get more of the story.  So seeing this quote in Buck's article guides me to the idea my partner uses his Instagram  to promote his blog.

"Content on social network sites is restricted within the parameters of their limited templates, which gives some scholars the sense that rhetorical expression on these sites is confined to filling out forms...specifically the Facebook profile, describing the possibilities for design, and also the design literacies, that these sites limit." (pg. 32)
- My partner described Instagrams filters as garbage and that he uses a different phone app to get better filters. So he found a way around the sites limitations. 

Conclusion: 
"For students like Ronnie, spending time on social network sites means developing digital literacies to negotiate the new rhetorical situations they encounter, where one status update is broadcast to many different friend groups..." (pg. 35)
- Social media is a place where we can connect with different friend groups. And different is the key word in the quote, because we do have different communities and individuals we are friends with on social media. These different groups will respond differently to each post. 

"Ronnie represents a rather extreme case of social network site use, both through the number of sites he used and the amount of activity he engaged in on each site." (pg. 34)
- Seeing this extreme case of social media use is crazy! I have never really thought about one person having so many different identities on social media.