"I explore how and if the move from page to screen has changed the diary, and with what implications" (McNeill, 2011, p313). As I scroll through my newsfeed on the virtual network, I can easily see that users posts are like diary logs.
I ask myself what implications arise from the virtual diary? Personal thoughts and experiences are no longer kept private as they would be in a physical diary. When lurking around the network this week, I saw many posts targeted at other users in a negative light. This reminded me of our lecture in week 4 "who owns stories and who has the right to tell them?" (van Luyn, 2013). Facebook has taken away confidentiality in many ways and can leave users exposed as others take part in writing their narrative for them.
I kept a physical diary as a young girl, and would have been mortified had I caught anyone peering onto my most personal thoughts and secrets, although, when you have younger siblings you soon learn that nothing is private!
Since the phenomenon that is Facebook, the physical diary seems to have been forgotten as users have no hesitation in sharing private details of the lives for all to see.I refer to The Litterary Diary as a Genre, and note the very first sentence of this article. Facebook users are not only eager to read others experiences, but eager to share their own as well. The gratification of 'likes' and 'comments' clearly outweighs that of privacy in todays society.
Reference List:
McNeill, L. 2011, Language and New Media, Linguistic, Cultural, and Technological Evolutions. Chapter 12, Diary 2.0? A Genre Moves from Page to Screen. Retrieved from: http://learnjcu.edu.au
Merry,B. 1997, The literary Diary as a Genre, n.p. Retrieved from: http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/20556925?uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21102622969793, Retrieved from Google.
van Luyn, A. 2013, BA1002 "Our space: Networks, Narrative and the making of Place', Lecture: Week 4, Part 2 Networked Narratives, retrieved from http://learn.jcu.edu.au
Image Credit:
Dear Diary E-Card, Retrieved from: http://www.someecards.com/usercards/viewcard/MjAxMi1iNGQyZmI1Yzk2ODZiMTQ1
retrieved from Google
Hi Alexandra
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed reading your blog and couldn't agree more that users are more interested with popularity than authenticity within Facebook. The diary as McNeill (2011) sees has always been a personal, intimate narrative of your life, thoughts and feelings which maintains authenticity of a diary. Although it seems the empowerment of, as you state "the gratification of likes and comments" of Facebook outweighs authenticity of the diary genre. Facebook users are no longer interested in the diary characteristic of privacy and are willing to write anything for popularity.
References
McNeill, L. (2011).Diary 2.0?: A genre moves
from page to screen. In C. Rowe & E. L Wyss
(Eds.),Language and new media: Linguistic,
cultural, and technological evolutions. (pp.
313-325). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton.
Hi Alexandra
ReplyDeleteI agree that the diary genre has definitely. A lot of people do not have any hesitation sharing personal items on Facebook and not worry about the consequences. Others, like myself, are aware of the audience watching. Hence, that is why I watch what I say as I am friends with workmates and know full well things I say can get back to my employer. So to an extent I am bound by my work Code of conduct when considering whether or not to comment about work on Facebook. There is so many stories on the news about people commenting about work on social media and receiving discipline as a result. You would think people would be a bit more considered as to what they say on Facebook. But this does interfere with people being their whole authentic self online