I would like to use the deconstructive method, to analyze The Social Network. The social network appeals to a teenage/young adult audience. Like a lot of movies that appeal to younger audiences, the idea of acceptance or popularity comes in to play. Most people always crave or strive to be apart of that “in crowd”. In the movie, Mark Zuckerberg dealt with the same issue. The Social Network shows how Zuckerberg is an outcast for many reasons, but mostly because of his lack of social skills. The movie also shows how Zuckerberg (someone who likes control) finds that “control” through the creation of facebook. Throughout the movie viewers can see the extent to which Zuckerberg wants to be cool and be a part of elite finals club, Phoenix. The …show more content…
The way he did that was by leading on the Winklevoss twins, deceiving Eduardo, and manipulating others around him. However, Marilyn, accuses him of not even being able to do that right, because he isn’t a true asshole. The fact that he isn’t a “true” asshole, makes all the trouble he went through seem meaningless, because he is left with just Facebook. He has all these “friends” on Facebook and in real life but they aren’t real or substantial so it doesn’t matter. Similarly, if he was a “real” asshole none of it would matter because that’s how he truly is. However, Marilyn sees past it and calls him on it and in a way just shatters the disillusioned world he had created . In a way he had rationalized all his negative actions by thinking “I’m an asshole”, never really questioning …show more content…
The situation is marked by a chain of signifiers and representative of a strange loop. The strange loop that he is caught in revolves around the idea of him being able to control social circles. However, even with him investing so much into this invention (loosing his friend and numerous lawsuits) he still doesn’t have enough power to completely control “social circles” even within his world. For example, when he is on Albright’s facebook profile, he has to do the same thing everyone else has to do and that is send a friend request. Essentially, that is what happens in real life too; you can’t just be someone’s friend—they have to let you in. Yet, even though he is the creator of Facebook he cant just be “friends” with her so he just refreshes the page constantly. Zuckerberg’s obsessive refreshing of the page places such significance on the almost minute importance of having the friend request “accepted”. This act mirrors we can see ourselves in, and we can see what happens to us as consumers of social networking
In the opening of her book, Ms. Andrews describes the world as one enthralled and in love with being a part of “Facebook Nation.” She describes how powerful the founder of Facebook has become (Mark Zuckerburg). Ms. Andrews even explains how he attends important meetings and has a seat at the table with the most ...
While conversing with friends at school, (yes socializing) the new trend everyone was talking about was Facebook. Some of our friends were graduating and they thought it would be the best way to keep
Social Media began affecting our communication and relationships as early as 1969 when the first internet service provider become available to U.S. universities. In 2002, Friendster, the first social media website available to the U.S. was created and gained over 3 million members in just over 3 months. One year later, MySpace launched. In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg, a 24-year-old Harvard student, created Facebook, an online social networking service. This service was originally a way for students to interact. Today it is the world’s largest social networking service and allows over a billion users to connect though posting photos, sharing links, and comments which all appear on a “News Feed” that blasts out this information to all your virtual friends. For the current generation, this new way of communication is facilitating the act of never losing contact with anyone they have ever met. It also allows anyone on this platform to create new relationships with people they are interested in connecting with via internet.
The movie “Social Network” is about the ideas and the development behind the creation of the very popular social networking site “Facebook”. Mark Zuckerberg is the main character in the movie and also the actual creator of Facebook.
In the article “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” by Stephen Marche, the author tries to show that Facebook impacts on society in the various ways. Moreover, the purpose of this article is to convince the readers that they should really connect to each other like face-to-face contact rather than spending time online the social media. Marche states that “Facebook doesn’t destroy friendships, but it doesn’t create them either” (Marche 608). The author’s audience would be middle-aged adults and middle class in May 2012 that buy and read about the social media because they might be up sad of their life. He also discusses that social network is making us lonely, or if lonely people are addicted to the Internet. However, he states social network is “merely a tool” (608), and we can choose how to use them. Marche sounds very cynical. He is an analyst, but his article is not clear enough. The author’s situation is so complicated because he uses too much examples and stories. Stephen Marche in “Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?” is not effective in using pathos, connotative languages, tone and emotions to convince the reader that they should really connect to each other face-to-face rather than spending time online.
Kirkpatrick, David. The Facebook Effect: The inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2010. Print.
In 2010 the Academy Awards gave its best picture award to a film called The King’s Speech directed by Tom Hooper and written by David Seidler. It was a well written and executed film however there was another film that should have won instead of The King’s Speech. That film was called The Social Network directed by the revered David Fincher and written by Aaron Sorkin. The film starred Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield, and Justin Timberlake. It was adapted from a book called “The Accidental Billionaires” written by Ben Mezrich in 2009. The Social Network focuses on the foundation of the social network website Facebook. The film’s main story begins with Mark Zuckerberg being dumped by his girlfriend which starts a chain of events leading to a website that rates girls. The website’s popularity results in the crashing of the Harvard network and gets Mark noticed by the Winkle Voss twins. The twins recruit Mark to create a website called the Harvard Connection. Little did they know the twins planted a seed, Mark secretly began bringing the idea of Facebook to life. Mark got the funding for the website from his best friend Eduardo Saverin, the co-founder of Facebook. Both began working on the site and expanded it to include other universities. After the initial success of the website, Mark and Eduardo decided to look for other investor where they meet the Napster co-founder Sean Parker. Later in the movie, a bombshell is dropped on Eduardo; his share of the company is dropped from 34% to .03%. The remainder of the movie is centered on Mark being sued by Eduardo and the Winkle Voss twins. The issue is resolved by Mark paying both parties. Though The King’s Speech was awarded best picture for its director and screen play, The Social ...
Leaders with idealized influence serve as role models to their employees and emphasize the mission’s importance of the mission. Mark Zuckerberg runs his company based on the principle that, “I will only hire someone to work directly for me if I would work for that person” (Weiss). Zuckerberg wants to assure that his employees share his thinking about Facebook’s mission and how Facebook progresses. He makes sure that his employees understand his ideal and are influenced by his passion for Facebook. In the book “Think like Zuck: The Secrets to Facebook 's Success” Ekaterina Walter, mentions what Zuckerberg believes in when he hires people for the company: “No one can achieve success alone. So hire people who share your values and beliefs. And hire for attitude: skills can be taught, passion can’t” (Walter). Through these elements of what he believes in, Zuckerberg has shown that he is very focused on influencing his employees through his passion and emphasizes the importance of the mission because only people with passion can overcome the obstacles that they deal with in their job. He wants to assure that his employees can overcome all the obstacles with not just the skills they have but with their determination. This is one of the examples of how he influences his followers as the leader or serves as a role model for his
David Fincher’s drama film The Social Network (2010) received quite a lot of attention. Winning 3 Oscars including best screenplay by Aaron Sorkin. Several people went to watch the film thinking its about Facebook, one of the element is about the website but not the main one. There are elements in the story that are as old as the story telling itself, of loyalty, friendship, jealousy, class, power and betrayal. That being said there are several ways Field’s 3 Act Structure and Vogler’s 12 Act Structure of a hero’s journey is presented in a clear way.
“We want everything to be social, Sheryl Sandberg said” (Morozov par. 17). He used this quote to explain that society wants people to interact with one another by using the internet as a source of communication. So by being social is completely defeats the purpose of what cyberflaneur means. Socializing with other means caring about what others think, this is affecting cyberflaneur in many ways. He keeps explaining how Facebook could be one of the many causes of why cyberflanuer no longer seem to exist. As he quoted Mark Zuckerberg, the boss of Sheryl Sandberg. He addresses the issue that Mark Zuckerberg had when he was being interviewed. Mark Zuckerberg sated the following, “do you want to go to the movies by yourself or do you want to go the movies with your friends? he asked, immediately answering his one question: You want to go with your friends’” (Morozov par. 18). This is where Morozov disagreed with Mark Zuckerberg’s statement, He was not pleased to state the following, “Facebook wants to build an Internet where watching films, listening to music, reading books and eve browsing is done not just openly but socially and collaboratively.” (Morozov par.19). He went on and gave an example of what he means saying, “well, because if you took an open poll of his friends, or large enough group of people, Satantango would almost always lose out to something more mainstream, like War Horse”
Attention getter: Imagine that you are sitting in your dorm room with a group of friend creating a social network site for Texas State. All of a sudden your network goes viral across the world and you have companies willing to buy your site for millions of dollars. This may sound unrealistic, but this was reality for Mark Zuckerberg.
and family, and also “meet like-minded people” ( Metz, par. 1). In some cases, business people such as Ron West, claim that he uses Facebook “to become acquainted with new customers”( par. 8). Yes, these types of websites are great tools to stay in touch with old classmatesand faraway family members. It is a great source of communication, but there is always a con to every pro. Even though users are connecting with others, users of social networks never know exact...
One of the most popular social networking websites today is none other than Facebook. People use Facebook in order to stay connected with their friends, family and the people around them, to discover what’s going in the world, in addition to share and express what matters to them. The Social Network is a film on how Facebook was created. There was a series of events, character development, relationships and a series of different emotions that are shown throughout the film.
Social Network theory dates back to the 1950’s where Barnes (1954) is credited with coining the term. Social Network Theory is the study of how the social structure around a person, group, or organization affect beliefs or behaviors (Dunn, 1983) The theory views relationships in terms of nodes and ties. Nodes can be defined as individual actors within networks, while ties are the relationships between the actors. (Dunn, 1983). These nodes and ties are often displayed in a diagram which shows the connection between them. Unlike traditional sociological studies, Social Network Theory does not assume that it is the attributes of individual actors, but rather the attributes of the individual are less important, but rather the relationships and ties with other actors within the network is what is important.
Nowadays, we are living in the “ technology world”, digital’s century, science and technology are being devolopped like a rain-storm, people try their best effect to serve for human’s infiniti demand. Internet in general and social network in particular are exceedingly funtional tools. Indeed, with over 1.3 billion active users in June,2014 ( Wikipedia), there is no suprise that Facebook has been becoming a leading social network in the world, “Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected” – CEO of Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg (google). Facebook truthly brought many useful; however, it is still “ a double-edged sword”.