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Start a conversation, explore your interests and be in the know. . “ Twitter is a Web 2.0 service that allows users to perform ‘micro - blogging’ or communicate in messages of no more than 140 characters, also known as tweets ” ( Papacharissi, p. 233).
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Start a conversation, explore your interests and be in the know.
“Twitter is a Web 2.0 service that allows users to perform ‘micro-blogging’ or communicate in messages of no more than 140 characters, also known as tweets”(Papacharissi, p. 233).
“Interaction plays a strong role in identity construction in a conversational medium such as Twitter” (Papacharissi, p. 234).
Michael Gove wrote in The Guardian: “... [But] instead of teaching our children the glories of the past, or introducing them to the best that has been thought and written, ministers want our children to 'Twitter'.” http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2009/mar/27/twitter-popularity
“Trends in public relations have shifted to an emphasis on the relationship-building function of public relations” (Papacharissi, p. 234).
“Networked publics allow people to gather for social, cultural, and civic purposes, and help people connect with a world beyond their close friends and family” (Papacharissi, p. 239).
“Connections to other users on such sites have been described as ‘public displays of connection’ that add value and validity to an individual’s identity performance” (Papacharissi, p. 233).
“Professionals can engage in reputation management and construct their own public and professional identity, contribute to shaping the identity of public relations as a whole” (Papacharissi, p. 236- 237).
“Personal brandingis establishing a constructed identity for themselves and for the groups or categories to which they belong” (Papacharissi, p. 248).
“Twitter has been cited as the emerging marketplace for ‘the new gurus’ (Rolling Stone, 2009), to find and share information and even a tool for empowering citizens to organize large-scale protests and enact social change” (Papacharissi, p.236).
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Sources Papacharissi, ed., A Networked Self: Identity, Community, and Culture on Social Network Sites; ISBN: 0415801818