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Koobecaf ethnography
By: Joshua Dorsey, TA: Evan Nave, Class: Willard 025 Wednesday 3:30
Koobecaf is a great communication tool that has swept the world in the past few years. Although many features on Koobecaf reflect American culture, nothing reflects it better than the ability to upload and share photographs. In order to understand how it reflects the American culture, we need to observe the various features behind sharing photos.
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The obvious feature is the ability to upload pictures to ones profile. People do this for various reasons; it can be to show off what you have, what you have done, where you have been, or perhaps to show a skill of yours. Sometimes people use it to show who they like to be with, which brings us to the tagging feature. Tagging is a feature that helps share a photo with the people who are in it. Another feature with tagging is a tab that says “# pictures of you and (the name of the person whose photos you are looking at).” Tagging shows that being with other people is an important aspect of American culture. Another important feature is the ability to comment on pictures. With this feature, friends can share opinions on the picture as a kind of nostalgic conversation. Depending on what the picture is of, people use this mainly to congratulate, show envy, chit chat about the event in the picture, or to tease the person in the photo.
The album feature allows people to organize their photos into type of place, event, different times, or different groups of people in the photos (family, friends, etc). In a way, the album organization shows the different categories of what’s important in American culture. The last and most important part of what reflects American culture is the profile picture. With the profile picture people put a picture that shows how they want everyone to see them. It might be a picture of them smiling, being in a social setting, or being at a special place. People also use this to show what is important to them. They show this by putting up a picture of their favorite politician, idols, pets, or a picture of them with their significant other.
The superstructure of sharing photos is in the variety of their photos. There are photos of themselves in special or faraway places, photos of special events, photos of what they have and photos of being with people because these things are what are important to them. It is their view on life that living is satisfying all of these things. The social structure is through all of the photos of family, but also of friends. You might ask why friends are a part of the social structure, it’s because in American culture, friends are as important as family, or even “adopted” as family. This could possibly be explained by the Infrastructure. American infrastructure is complicated because in America the necessities of life are unquestionably expected to be there for them. Therefore, it could be said that American infrastructure could be shown through the sharing of photos of their material possessions like new cars, boats, expensive shoes, or anything of the nature. Now friends are considered as important as family because family members don’t really depend on each other for the materialistic necessities of life. It could be said that what’s most important is the mental support they give each other. Since their friends can give just as much mental support as family, it could be the reason why friends are just as close as family in American culture, hence why there is probably just as many pictures of friends on Koobecaf as family members.
Conclusion
Everything in the barrel model is possible because it’s given to us through our environment…the passing down of traditions, the ease to travel, the amazing rate in which information is shared, and all the necessities that are practically given to Americans. Everything in their environment and the reflection of that onto the barrel model can be shown through Koobecaf photographs. Although at first it may not be apparent, I believe with this paper you will understand just how much of American culture is shown on Koobecaf photos.
Koobecaf is a great communication tool that has swept the world in the past few years. Although many features on Koobecaf reflect American culture, nothing reflects it better than the ability to upload and share photographs. In order to understand how it reflects the American culture, we need to observe the various features behind sharing photos.
Body
The obvious feature is the ability to upload pictures to ones profile. People do this for various reasons; it can be to show off what you have, what you have done, where you have been, or perhaps to show a skill of yours. Sometimes people use it to show who they like to be with, which brings us to the tagging feature. Tagging is a feature that helps share a photo with the people who are in it. Another feature with tagging is a tab that says “# pictures of you and (the name of the person whose photos you are looking at).” Tagging shows that being with other people is an important aspect of American culture. Another important feature is the ability to comment on pictures. With this feature, friends can share opinions on the picture as a kind of nostalgic conversation. Depending on what the picture is of, people use this mainly to congratulate, show envy, chit chat about the event in the picture, or to tease the person in the photo.
The album feature allows people to organize their photos into type of place, event, different times, or different groups of people in the photos (family, friends, etc). In a way, the album organization shows the different categories of what’s important in American culture. The last and most important part of what reflects American culture is the profile picture. With the profile picture people put a picture that shows how they want everyone to see them. It might be a picture of them smiling, being in a social setting, or being at a special place. People also use this to show what is important to them. They show this by putting up a picture of their favorite politician, idols, pets, or a picture of them with their significant other.
The superstructure of sharing photos is in the variety of their photos. There are photos of themselves in special or faraway places, photos of special events, photos of what they have and photos of being with people because these things are what are important to them. It is their view on life that living is satisfying all of these things. The social structure is through all of the photos of family, but also of friends. You might ask why friends are a part of the social structure, it’s because in American culture, friends are as important as family, or even “adopted” as family. This could possibly be explained by the Infrastructure. American infrastructure is complicated because in America the necessities of life are unquestionably expected to be there for them. Therefore, it could be said that American infrastructure could be shown through the sharing of photos of their material possessions like new cars, boats, expensive shoes, or anything of the nature. Now friends are considered as important as family because family members don’t really depend on each other for the materialistic necessities of life. It could be said that what’s most important is the mental support they give each other. Since their friends can give just as much mental support as family, it could be the reason why friends are just as close as family in American culture, hence why there is probably just as many pictures of friends on Koobecaf as family members.
Conclusion
Everything in the barrel model is possible because it’s given to us through our environment…the passing down of traditions, the ease to travel, the amazing rate in which information is shared, and all the necessities that are practically given to Americans. Everything in their environment and the reflection of that onto the barrel model can be shown through Koobecaf photographs. Although at first it may not be apparent, I believe with this paper you will understand just how much of American culture is shown on Koobecaf photos.
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