{"id":172,"date":"2008-11-12T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-12T18:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/2008\/11\/the-topsy-turvy-world-of-social-media.html"},"modified":"2010-05-02T10:01:22","modified_gmt":"2010-05-02T17:01:22","slug":"topsy-turvy-world-of-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gravity7.com\/blog\/media\/2008\/11\/topsy-turvy-world-of-social-media.html","title":{"rendered":"The Topsy-Turvy World of Social Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This short slideshow has been sitting about on my machine for months. This morning, for no particular reason, I decided to wrap and post it.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a reflection on some of the paradoxes of social media, seen from the perspective of the user experience. But instead of doing a normal description of social media, this time I explore the ways in which identity, presence, connections, relationships, communication, even time, get warped and distorted by mediation.<\/p>\n<p>While it may read cynically, it&#8217;s not &#8212; and I&#8217;m not cynical about online experiences. That said, I do use the strategy of exaggeration to expose deeper truths within. 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