Discussion in class:

 

My group chose to have a discussion about the Twitter text because we all shared an interest in Twitter and the way people choose to communicate on it. The interesting thing about communicating through Twitter is that it has a very unique style. It invented the “hash tag” which is now a very common thing that it is even used in every day speech and not just through social networks. Other social networking sites have adapted to the new Twitter language as well and so now you find hash tags on things like Facebook.

 

Throughout our discussion we chose to focus on a specific quote “Shh! Game of thrones” this is a very short sentence which is also associated with Twitter as everything on there is meant to be short - it even has a word limit for each tweet! This tweet links to the power theory as it is a famous man using his influential power through the use of the imperative “Shh!” this catches your attention as one you are not talking you are tweeting and two you are on a social networking site, you do not expect to be shushed. He is almost telling his followers that he doesn’t want any spoilers so if they have already seen that episode don’t tell him but he may also be saying “don’t talk to me unless it is about Game of thrones”. However almost an hour later he starts talking about the episode. This would suggest he had finished watching it and was inviting his followers to express their opinions on it. However this could be seen as an act of enforcing power as it is almost as if he is “allowing” them to speak/tweet again as the episode is now finished. It is almost as if he is controlling them and they are not allowed to do anything if he does not wish it.