"It started out as a lark, a diversion, but it has turned into something real, something that has changed the way human beings relate to one another on a species-wide scale...We have entered the Facebook age"(Times, 2011)
Social media propaganda, 2011, Wood, A.
The concept of ‘symbolic universe’ is the concept of society progressing and improving to state of utopia, it the way humanity organizes the social world as comprehensible and connected. This help people place them self in known and knowable space in our society. So how does Facebook relate to a “symbolic universe” today? Facebook in practice may not appear utopian but its build on base of an idealistic world, world of openness and connections (Grossman, 2010). Facebook and its creator strives for a world that can be seen almost as an idealistic self sustained democracy. Its world we each run ourselves not bound by borders but bound by our own networks where each can share their world as they please. Facebook and other social media creates a symbolic universes today which gives us hope for a better future.
Grossman, L. (2010, December 15). Person of the Year 2010. Time, 176, 26.
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