Media studies reading list

Future Learn - Why We Post (UCL)

http://blogs.ucl.ac.uk/global-social-media/

Article: Fieldwork is haunting me, thanks to WhatsApp 

By: Juliano Andrade Spyer

Notes: Uses of social media WhatsApp in a glimpse of Brazilian culture, how the writer feels about the content being on their phone all of the time.

Article: Online relationships with strangers can be ‘purer’ than with offline friends 

By: Xin Yuan Wang

Notes: Something I never considered. In China people find talking about their personal issues easier online to strangers because they would not judge them as a family member would, or on their personal qualities (such as wealth or power) that someone as a real life friend may try to obtain through them.

Article: Surveying Social Relationships

By: Daniel Miller

Notes: Come back to this! "How the World Changed Social Media, which will be published as an Open Access book by UCL Press in February 2016"

Future Learn - Brand Storytelling

Christopher Booker The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories (2004):
1. Overcoming the monster
2. Rags to riches
3. The quest
4. Voyage and return
5. Comedy
6. Tragedy
7. Rebirth