Summarizing: Someone to Watch Over Me
Obession, addiction, escaping and avoiding, as Stites reveals, people’s attitude towards online communities varies. Getting involved in dozens of networks, constantly checking the websites for new posts and comments, keeping an eye on others’ shared life while hiding behind the distance of telecommunication, people are enjoying such virtual socializing that everything is artificial but perfect. They stretch out their arms for love and intimacy while stepping back to avoid being exposed. People are getting socially awkward and frightened in Stites’ depiction. However, they could not, and do not want to, escape from the network. This is the ongoing culture fashion-to socialize with your best image-where everybody is in.
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Hi Qianchi!
Thanks for taking a stab at this article summary. There are some really useful things here–I like your creativity, and it seems like you’re really engaging with the psychological elements of the article. However, in light of our class discussion, do you think that it might be difficult for somebody to get a sense of what the article was about simply by reading this summary? For starters, we aren’t provided with any basic information (author, title, publication, etc) or a clear summary of what Stites is attempting to do in the article. For future summaries, I hope you will be able to keep the creativity you show here…but in the context of providing the basic information about the article that readers are looking for. Did the strategies we discussed in class help? I hope so!
See you next week,
Dr. E
Oh I may have done it in the wrong direction…I thought the summary is written for those who have read the article. I will try to write a better one. Thank you professor!