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AN INTRODUCTION TOSOCIAL MEDIA
by Pete Ashtonfor Metapod Connect ash10.comfierceearth.wordpress.com
 
Social Media is all abouttelling stories
 
 
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jonhickman

Nice stuff here Pete. So this next bit is not a criticism of your slides, but a point of debate and something to mull over. On the topic of cultural capital, I can see what you're saying re. the standing of people in the community and how that contributed to getting the event up and running. Would you accept a development of this point: that those who perceive themselves to have less influence may feel disenfranchised from the process of convening such events? i.e. if I feel less powerful, if I have less of what you call cultural capital, then I will be less likely to try to develop new ideas or take leadership of any activity. Of course hierarchies and meritocracies in online or offline communities should not surprise us. However, the dominant discourse of social media activity seems to me to encompass ideas of equality, conversation and sharing. Therefore hierarchies are counterproductive to the goals of the community. If communities evolve through exchanges of social capital, then you begin to limit opportunities for new voices and new ideas to those who have the most capital. Taking this out of the abstract and making this more practical: those with the social capital are going to be very busy because the rest of us will hang around waiting for you to do something. Whether this is a blessing or a curse depends on your perspective.

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