For Unit 3, you will analyze the social media account of a public figure-- a celebrity, a band, an athlete, a business, a company, a sports team, or a political figure...any public account that is unrelated to you is fair game! Keep in kind that, as with Unit 2, you may not be able to choose the first account you have in mind.
As you begin coming up with ideas, keep in mind that a good social media account to analyze will have the following:
1) recent and frequent updates
2) photo posts
3) interactions with other users (fans, personal friends, other celebrities, etc.)
4) personal comments and anecdotes
5) some sort of relevance to their overall identity and helps establish an ethos for that individual
Accounts that would not be as useful to analyze will have the following:
1)sporadic posting with very few pictures, personal anecdotes, and/or commentary
2)inactive accounts
3)accounts that seem to obviously be controlled by someone other than the public figure (such as a PR team).
4) an account that mainly responds to fans' requests for retweets with no other postings that allow a reader to get a glimpse of the person's identity.
If you are having trouble getting started, here are some great resources for finding interesting and useful accounts for our purpose:
The 10 Best Branded Companies on Instagram
140 Best Twitter Feeds of All Time
Who to Follow on Pintrest: 30 Pinners to Follow
18 Facebook Users You Should Follow
Before class on Wednesday, you should read Writing Analytically (pgs. 133-140) on "Making Interpretations Plausible." Then browse and choose an account to analyze and post a short blog on which person/ band/business/etc. Include a short synopsis of why you think the account will be useful to analyze and provide a short summary of what sort of identity the account exhibits through its postings.
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