Hey,
Like some of you guys I plan on writing my narrative about my high school community, but in particular I'm considering writing about how tipping points in the popularity of certain music artists are catalysts to other tipping points in dialect and fashion. When I went to high school, knowing a song before everyone else was a big deal to a small group of people. These kids could always find that one song, album, or artist that would heard bumping through car speakers, blasting at parties, and being passed around on facebook for the entire summer or school year.
No matter what my main topic ends up being, I plan on covering how facebook enables a "permission giver's" ideas to spread, how originality motivates the community's "permission givers," and how the community shows respect for the "permission givers," by, ironically, copying them. Other thoughts I had were about the roles that convenience plays in fashion trends like the braid pony tail, and the tipping point for the "throw salt on the h8erz" movement that began in my high school after a group of Model U.N. members coined the term. There is a facebook group called "Throwin Salt on the HATERZ" if anyone wants to get a better understanding. I don't have a solid idea to tie all my topics together yet but hopefully that will come to me soon. I hope everyone had a good weekend!
Sophia,
ReplyDeleteYou sound like you have a couple ideas going on here, so I'm going to address them seperately.
First, let's think the popularity of music artists. This sounds like a really unique concept! Music can definitely have a big influence on communities. Music can be a voice that represents trends and drives changes. From what I understand here, you are looking at a community of people within your high school who identified (or set the standard) for what would become the most popular music. You are looking at those influential people within the community who set the music agenda. I think you could focus exclusively on this community. What values do they share? How do you become a member?
You also talk about the potential of looking at facebook as a "permission giver" that allows ideas to spread. This is also an interesting topic! You could look at how the above mentioned music community uses facebook as a medium to spread their influence.
I'm not familiar with the "Throwin Salt on the HATERZ" facebook group, but you definitely could look at one particuarly active facebook group as a community, and describe how members of that community function both online and in person.
All interesting concepts - keep unraveling this topic.
Hey Sophia!
ReplyDeleteLike Nicole said, I think you have a lot of thoughts going on here and need to find a way to connect or narrow your ideas. Overall, though, I think it sounds really interesting. There were a lot of things about my high school I didn’t really like, I sort of felt like it was more of an extension of middle school. I think reading about what was popular at other high schools and what other high schools are like would be really interesting. The permission givers idea sounds really good too!