ARTS2093 Social Media

Use Abidin’s (2018) concept of ‘porous authenticity’ to analyse a social media practice. This concept was covered in the week 3 lecture and tutorial.

Your essay should:

1.Identify a particular social media practice that you will use as a case study and the key types of communication involved in this practice.

2.Sample at least 5 examples of the above communication. Include these as either figures or extracts in your essay, for example:

3.Explain the key dimensions of ‘porous authenticity’

4.Use these dimensions in your case study to interpret the social media practice.

5.Analyse rather than simply describe your examples in your case study.