Class Work Your Digital Afterlife Ch. 4

Client leaves a personal legacy as well as a aggregate.

Shared Interactions:

My client has a lot of shared interactions. He has many friends and family who post things on his wall. A question to use from this information could be, What are your thoughts about what other people post on your wall? How do you think these post effect your digital identity?

Aggregate:

My client is an aggregate through the social media site twitter. He reposts man different pictures and gifs on his twitter site. My client is an aggregate for VMI football, because he has reposted several things that discuss VMI football. He also repost things from different pages that one could consider interesting. For example he posted a video from another site about how small the earth is in comparison to other planets. He also acts as an aggregate for some of his friends reposting different things that they have shared with others.

How Data Was Found:

To begin the process I logged into facebook using my laptop. Once on facebook I typed my clients name, Alexander Keys, into the search bar. At that point I clicked on his facebook webpage. Once on his webpage I scrolled down through all of his post. I looked for post in which he took from others, as well as post that others put on his page. I was able to draw information regarding his social interaction from doing this process. After searching through facebook I switched social media sites. I went onto twitter, and logged in. From there I searched his name again in the search bar. Once on twitter I scrolled through his site reading all of the things that he tweeted. I was able to draw some conclusions regarding how he acts as a aggregate through twitter. I went through these two sites, because people often use facebook and twitter to interact with others as aggregates as well as using social interaction. -this would be in methods section of the paper

Social media and how we use it can be observed from this activity. Example social interaction on Facebook, and Aggregation on twitter.

Answer to Thesis Statement Question From Prompt:

My client is arguing that they are a friendly positive person living an eventful and fulfilling life. In this paper I will argue that my client creates a digital identity of social confidence, upbeat personality, as well as a hard working life style. The client’s identity is currently persuasive in many aspects, but there are certain properties of my clients digital identity that could be improved.

the different kinds of interaction through different forms of social media effect how my client portrays this digital identity, and how effective it is with his audience.

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Published by: Andrew Crane

I am currently an undergraduate student at the Virginia Military Institute majoring in psychology with a minor in leadership studies. I enjoy the arts and attempt to take as many writing intensive courses as possible to better prepare myself for future career situations. My goal as an undergraduate is get accepted into a competitive graduate program in Clinical Psychology. I wish to study clinical psychology with a focus in forensic psychology. My ePortfolio displays different class work that I have done here at VMI through the english department. I will also be posting my future undergraduate research on this site.

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