Follow Me on academia.edu: Analysis of a Distraction Online and of Its Consequences on Daily Life

The narration of a story is a work half-way between the real and the virtual, the factual and the functional. The request to join a social network sent to 281 people is a pretext to reflect on what happens in the world online and its consequences on life offline. To analyse this “incident” raises tw...

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Main Author: Gevisa la Rocca
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Bucharest 2010-10-01
Series:Journal of Comparative Research in Anthropology and Sociology
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Online Access:http://doctorat.sas.unibuc.ro/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Issue2_GevisaLaRocca_Academia.pdf
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Summary:The narration of a story is a work half-way between the real and the virtual, the factual and the functional. The request to join a social network sent to 281 people is a pretext to reflect on what happens in the world online and its consequences on life offline. To analyse this “incident” raises two questions: first, how to tell the event happened, second how to interpret the unexpected consequences of intentional action that is work half-way between the online and offline. In this work we choose to use as a method the auto-ethnography, and try to interpret the event through:Merton’s concept of the unexpected consequences of a social action and literature on SNS. Our story offers a further point of reflection, that is, what happens when the virtual, and all that takesplace in it, becomes part of daily life.
ISSN:2068-0317