I chose to do my ethnography assignment on Reddit. It is a site similar to stumble upon, where
users can make posts about basically anything they want.
As the site’s FAQ page states,
“Reddit is made up of hundreds of sub-communities, each focused on a specific
topic. There's a reddit for science, a reddit for music, and probably a reddit for your
nearest city.” There is even a reddit
for political news and opinions. I think
this related to our discussion in class about how the political campaigning
scene has changed dramatically because of convergent media. Reddit is another example of this because,
even if the users don’t think so, they are actually advertising for politicians
by getting their names out there. Now,
whether their posts are positive or negative, they are still making them more
widely known. The page link is here, and has new posts every few
hours usually. I enjoy going here to
find out about news because the filtered and ranked information sifts through
all the nonsense for me.
Yay Reddit!
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