More Social Networking Stereotypes

I found this on Heather's blog, and I thought I'd put it on mine as well because it is an interesting way of showing social networking, in an American Yearbook style, as this helps to get across all the different stereotypes. Also, it might give some ideas as to how we might do the layout for our editorial.

I think that is one of the next things we will have to discuss as a group, because we only have 5 stereotypes and we somehow have to fill 8 pages with images of those stereotypes. We may have to do some as a double page spread and some as a single page, or even come up with a few more stereotypes to convey. 

Ideas

My group has come up with a few ideas for how to photograph this idea of Education, and come up with a few good ideas styling-wise.

We have decided that we are going to have models showing the social networking site's particular stereotypes, which are :

Facebook - popular, slutty? - Facebook is one of the most popular social networking sites. Everyone seems to have one, and in profile photographs and such, people always seem to dress quite provocatively. Also, people tend to care a lot about what they look like in photographs which are put on Facebook, as no one wants to look bad in any photos.

Myspace - Emo, rocker, musician?, individual? - Myspace was always used by the more "emo" stereotype of people when it was really popular a few years ago. People tended to have their own style. Now, Myspace seems to have become more about the musical side of things, having it's own record label and stuff, which would also fit into that category of emo / rocker style.

YouTube - Nerdy - I think we decided that YouTube was more of a nerdy website stereotype, based on the fact that it tends to be a lot more technical. People need to know how to work a video camera and usually edit their movies before they put them on YouTube, which makes it seem more nerdy than the other sites.

Twitter - Gossip, Celebrity - Twitter provides a lot of gossip about celebrities as a lot of celebrities have a twitter account and have "tweeted" outrageous things about people which other people would be interested in hearing. It educates people into the lives of celebrities.

Tumblr - Arty - Tumblr is somewhere where a lot of people share their art / photography / photoshopped images etc.

We're thinking of finding clothes to fit these stereotypes together. Each person in the group will have one area to look at finding an outfit for, but we will all give our own input on each of the outfits.

EDUCATION

So the new brief was given out a few weeks ago, and my computer has only just decided that it's going to let me access my blog! So now is as good a time as any to get started on researching

I have a group for this assignment, made up of four photographers - Me, Heather Whitfield, Sophie Morris and Alison O'keeffe. Obviously it is not ideal that we have 4 photographers instead of having some stylists to help with the styling side of the brief, but we seem to be getting on with that side of things okay.

We have decided to do our assignment based around stereotypes and social networking, which I think is an interesting way of interpreting Education. Young people seem to get most of their education from the internet these days, and the idea of looking good in a profile picture makes people want to educate themselves into making themself look better for that purpose and learn how to make themself into the stereotypical view of how a user of a particular networking site "should" look.
Also, people can find out a lot of gossip from Social Networking sites. This leads to social education as it is making people more in the know as to what is going on in the world of celebrity, or what is going on in their own lives.

The interpretations behind showing Education through Social Networking sites are endless!