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We looked at the style of recording data of where a dead body is found by their outline of chalk. We also looked at our other possible idea for the assignment of anatomy, but placed the organs and body parts in the wrong places.Â
I went through my history and found this website that I found helped my concept about women dominating the social media world. It backed up what I already instinctually felt about how women are more frequent users of most social media sites - except for one. This website goes into detail about percentages, and statistics involving the involvement of women on sites like Tumblr, Facebook, Instagram, Pintrest and Twitter.Â
This aids my idea that women are more susceptible to the sway of social media, as they are more involved in the world of it. The website then addresses a source that aided in their research, which I also clicked through to, and found that they go further to suggest that not only do women spend more time of social media sites, but they use them in more ways then men do.
The source outlines how 60% of social media is used on smartphones and tablets, which furthers the constant stream of it, as it is accessible wherever you are and whenever. This undeniably supports the fact that people are constantly fed the information on social media, and therefore it must have some sort of impact on the understanding of self. This is because so much of social media is based on pictures of people's lives, which when viewed so frequently, must have some sort of impact on how people see their own images of themselves.Â
Facebook: Women 76% Men 66%
Tumblr: Women 54% Men 46%
Pinterest: Women 33% Men 8%
LinkedIn: Women 19% Men 24%
Instagram: Women 20% Men 15%
Twitter: Women 18% Men 17%
More women consume news in social media
58% of US women online consume news on social media compare to only 42% of US men. As to where they prefer to consume news:
Facebook: Women 58% Men 42%
Google Plus: Women 52% Men 48%
Women lead the trend towards social media via mobile
Women use smartphones and tablets more often for social media.
Smartphone: Women 46% Men 43%
Tablet: Women 32% Men 20%
Women drive the growth of visually-based social media
Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr have gained ten million new users over the past 12 months, making them the fastest growing social media. More women use the top visual social media:
Tumblr: Women 54% Men 46%
Pinterest: Women 33% Men 8%
Instagram: Women 20% Men 15%
Whist all of these statistics are based in the US, I feel it would be fairly similar in Australia. These statistics support my concept about women's contribution to social media. They also support the general notion of my concept aside from gender issues, as it proves that still a large number of both men and women are frequent users of social media, which must have an effect on their self.
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The contemporary self could be said to be quantitative. We produce a constant stream of data that is collected, projected, and stored which determines our daily existence. To what extent has this ‘quantitative turn’ changed our understanding of self?
The idea that the ‘constant stream of information’ has an impact on our understanding of existence and self really grabbed my attention, as I feel I have experienced this first hand multiple times, if not every day. My thoughts trailed too the recent trend of people, particularly teenage girls, posting pictures of their healthy meals on social media (especially Instagram). I automatically assumed I had missed the healthy lifestyle memo, until I realised how many celebrities were doing the same thing. Soon it became a gossip topic among my peers of who was posting photos of healthy food for ‘likes.’ I suddenly realised that the data on social media of these celebrities eating certain healthy foods subconsciously, or consciously had an effect on teenage girls. They processed this information and then projected an image that was outrageously similar to that of the celebrities, and the general teenage girl demographic.Â
That then brings into question, what is our contemporary understanding of self in this quantitative turn of constant information? Are we only a product of the information that is fed to us? Are we a valued member of society if we don’t project an image that others are familiar with? Are we any different from each other if we just follow the celebrity and social media trends to a ’T’?
My original idea formed fairly quickly after asking myself these questions. I decided to produce a work which symbolically portrayed these ideas, with my preferred medium of photography. I chose only girls as my subject matter, for a few reasons. One being that I don’t see men being so impacted by what they see on social media. They are far less likely to change their style or get a drastic hair cut based off a celebrity posting it on Facebook or Instagram. I also chose only women to photograph, as I feel I have an understanding of women and social media that I do not so much with men. I also feel from my own experience that girls check their social media sites more frequently than boys do, making them far more susceptible to the constant information.Â
After choosing my female models I decided I wanted to photograph them individually with a white backdrop and pink goo pouring on their heads until their faces were no longer identifiable. Two different methods were applied, one being a flour and water mixture, and the other being thickened cream (both coloured with pink food colouring). The use of this goo is symbolic of this information we receive via social media, as it pours over them, and completely alters our understanding of self, as we cannot identify who we are after the goo has covered our faces. The pink colouring is symbolic of desire; the desire to be seen a certain way by the public eye, weather that be healthy, fun or like our favourite celebrity etc. I made the conscious decision to use food products to make the goo, as I also see this as a symbol of desire, as it references gluttony. I also took into consideration the safety hazards of using anything else such as paint.
The images consist of the girls (and myself) being covered by the pink goo, or the information, until we are no longer any different to each other. We also lose our sense of individuality in the process, as signifying qualities of each other, such as Kyra’s green hair, or Tallulah’s standard winged eyeliner, are completely hidden by the goo. This symbolises the influence of social media’s constant information, and its power to strip us back to a generic image that matches everyone else.Â
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The thickened cream was an ok success, however myself and one of the other girls half chocked on it, and spat pink gunk at the camera! Clean up was even worse than with the flour and water and my bath now smells like vomit, but at least no one got it matted into their hair this time. I owe a lot of lunches and chocolates to people....
Using the flour and water mixture became a huge struggle post photo taking. The two girls spend more than half an hour trying to comb it out of their hair. I will resort to using the thickened cream for the remainder of the photos. This is annoying, as I am not sure if it will produce consistent results, and I don't know if it will have the same thick, gloopy effect.
Definitely don't think that I can submerge 5 girls in the pool. I tried dumping water on my sisters head, but it was so boring I didn't even take any photos. Not effective enough, and I don't want to dump pink water on her head because that will just look like blood.Â
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Perhaps submerging people in water would be effective. I attempted to turn the pool lights red/pink to emphasise the idea of desire, and use my sister as a model for these experiments. I found it very difficult to get a clear image because of the darkness. They mostly turned out grainy. Also due to the cold weather, my sister almost refused to go under the water. Due to the fact that I need several other people to do this also, I decided to try a different way of capturing this idea.
I did some experimenting with different ingredients to get the perfect pink goo to pour onto someones head.Â
I wanted to make it pink, and I wanted it to be food based. My first attempt was custard, however because of its yellow colouring, it turned into more of an orange than a pink.
After scrapping that idea, I thought about using thickened cream instead.
This seemed to be good, but perhaps a little thin. I continued to experiment, and attempted a flour and water mixture.
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