Blog post 2 Student name: Wong Ho Yin SID: 10555468

Student name: Wong Ho Yin  SID: 10555468

Marwick, A. & boyd, d. (2011). To See and Be Seen: Celebrity Practice on Twitter. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 17(2), 139–158.

 In this article, the writer research a social network platform of twitter how to become a celebrity to maintain or build relationship for public audience, their fans or increase concern members such as media worker to outstand a exposure. In the wrier view, twitter is the apparently one of the media in network to change the celebrity images, gossip discussion and celebrity production. Moreover, the culture of the celebrity begins on the network to communicate with the fans or express the stance of the activities. In the twitter and method, research discovers the twitter can allow people post 140-character updates. The twitter style shows every user has their own group of “followers”. The twitter as a broadcast medium, however the dialogic culture and ability of the twitter has contributed substantially to its popularity. The purposes of twitter become a celebrity important medium, it should be about public recognition, fan maintenance, affiliation and intimacy. Some celebrity of the political character such as the president of United States America Obama is the twitter user to express his new policy or share his situation.

  In my view, there is no doubt that of twitter is one of the social platforms to affect or change the communication of the public and user. Therefore, I agree the writer the research of celebrity of the twitter. The communication of the twitter is very unique. It is the main reason of the celebrity chooses twitter to announce their latest situation or express the view and so on. Moreover, the management of their personal twitter is indispensable. The function of the network is the affiliation. It means that celebrities need to use network do interaction for their followers each other. Otherwise, the effective of celebrity in the twitter is very short. Meanwhile, If I use the twitter to show my photos and article. I am a production of the trend and some topics. Therefore, it is not only for the celebrity to make more popular, but also common users can become a celebrity in the network. At last, there are question of the twitter. Everyone can become a user or celebrity in the twitter. If some crime people use a twitter to call out or incite illegal behavior. Worst of all the termism, it seems there is a dangerous network or expose the conditional policy. At the same time to consider the positive of the celebrity, we need to think the bad impact in the network. Do you think we need to concern the bad impact of the twitter?