Artistic Expression in Facebook

Artistic Expression in Facebook

Phillip Jeffrey

Artcamp 07

September 8, 2007

Facebook graffiti credit by Paul Yan

© 2007 Phillip Jeffrey

Structure of Presentation

What is Facebook?

Creativity in Facebook

Group Discussion

Facebook graffiti credit by David Chen


Facebook Experience UBC grad student

Member since Fall 2005

Presentations, articles,press coverage onFacebook


Tapping into your Social Graph“I’m here to build something for the long term.Anything else is a distraction.” -Mark Zuckerberg


“What [Facebook] needed to do was construct as accurate a modelas possible of the way the social graph looks in the real world” -

Mark Zuckerberg


Facebook by the Numbers

35 million active users (log in once per month)

3.3. Million active users in Canada

30% with uni/college ids by end of 2007, down from 50%now


A tour through Facebook


Photos


Notes


Facebook Platform Applications


Creativity: GraffitiFacebook graffiti courtesy of Jay Tang


Self-Expression: GraffitiFacebook graffiti credit by Tony Romano


Generation Me -- Express Yourself


Strive for Identity

Growing up Digital (1998)

Generation Me (2006)

National School BoardAssociation (2007)

The Presentation of Self inEveryday Life (1973)


Merging of Digital/PhysicalEnvironments

Photo courtesy of Flickr user *watershed*


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