Social Media in Popular Culture

Posted by Nicole Collins on
Thursday, March 12th, 2009 at 2:19 pm

Previous to eHarmony and Match.com, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan made online dating socially acceptable in “You’ve Got Mail.”

CWTV drama series Gossip Girl propels conflict using mass text messaging.

If he doesn’t call you: “Please don’t cyberstalk him,” said Janine to Gigi in the recent film “He’s Just Not That In To You.”

Last week 30 Rock “Goodbye, My Friend,” had a cleverly written scene that mocks the way today’s youth communicates, specifically in romantic relationships:

Pregnant teen Becca: Dude I know you’re getting these messages because I know how to check your voicemail. You’re officially a d-bag Tim! I hope you lose your indoor soccer game.

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Becca: And when I told Tim I was pregnant he just freaked out and didn’t call me for a week.

Then he texted me and was like “Oh, I love you, No, I’m mad at you, you did this on purpose,” as if. Meanwhile, his MyFace page still says status: “horny.”

And I’m like, “If you care about me at all at least have the decency to skype me face to face.”

Liz Lemon: Man, there are just so many different devices for guys to not call you on now. When I was your age you could just be like, “oh he probably tried to call me but my line was busy,” and then just watch Falcon Crest and cry yourself to sleep.

I don’t think popular culture is too far off the mark. What are examples (real life or on the screen) you have encountered?

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2 Comments, Comment or Ping

yenching

I believe that social media has taken a more and more important role in the popular culture. Sine more and more youths who will grow up with maintaining their relationship with their friends on social media, it would make some impacts to their life. I believe that there will be something like “social media culture” which affacts people’s social life form the language they use on social media, the time they spend on chatting with their friends, even to how they maintain their romantic relationship.

Here are some videos about the social media in popular culture.
http://www.web-strategist.com/blog/2008/06/04/when-social-networks-enter-popular-culture/

Mar 12th, 2009
Filiz Efe

It works in both directions: social media feed popular culture and popular culture feeds social media. The forms and tools are changing to express ourselves. Today, I don’t see any difference in transferring a private message to a friend among the digital communication tools in everyday life or face to face communication. Using social media is not just ‘push the button’ issue. Things are getting complicated: we began to act like a maestro to conduct our online presence and maintain our relationships deployed on different networks. I think we undervalue the social media tools most of the time, in fact we disagree the simplicity of using a medium when compared with the possible profound meaning deserves to be transferred face to face. Nobody wants to be dumped on a post-it message or text, however the same people could find it romantic when they are asked for a date via the same tools.

Mar 13th, 2009