SOCIALYoutube identity community stalking

modification app pop-culture meme post hashtag

nostalgia culture city world meet-space tourism recreation collective collaboration following real-time news

roleplaying participatory live-blog crowd-source click-bait dialogue LARP location-based local webcam

companionship sharing trend slang jargon language dating chat doppelgänger narcissism creepy tag

friends poke snapchat yahoo-answers network chain-mail gift viral profile

THE IDEAOur piece began with concerning ourselves with societies desire for social

constructs. Everyone has it, everyone uses it. Today with social media apps fulfilling social desire is at the tip of everyone’s fingers. The desire to

communicate, connect, liberate, profile, accept, deny, receive and send is all instantaneous. We then designed a real life form of a popular social media

function of click bait, complete with a “gift” for responding to the bait. Once strangers respond to the bait and have sent a text to a specific number, they are given instructions to a hidden show at a specific location and time. The click bait would cause strangers to meet in a singular space together over a secret that would be unleashed to them. These strangers will have to form

bonds and communications to hunt the hidden secret show that will be waiting for them. The secret then asks the strangers to take a

commemorative photo (a common practice among folk on social media) and upload it to popular media app Instagram with the hashtag #secretshow. After the show is complete we will gather data by way of the Instagram

photos that are uploaded with the location and hashtag provided and how many people initially responded to the “post”.

PHASE ONE:CREATING AND “POSTING” THE

CLICKBAITTrial Stickers Made

for Catching Attention

Stickers Are Placed Around all Floors of

Lamar Dodd

PHASE TWO: WAIT FOR TEXTS AND RESPOND WITH SECRET SHOW

INFORMATION IN CREATIVE FASHION

RECORD UNIQUE RESPONSES AND SOCIALIZE WITH SENDER

PHASE THREE: HOLD SECRET SHOW IN LAMAR DODD ATRIUM AT SUNSET AND RECORD

ATTENDANCE AND HASHTAG CREATION ON INSTAGRAM

QUESTION TIME!

Would you go?

Which experience feels more significant/rewarding: Texting a stranger, attending, or Instagram?

What aspects of this experience feels relevant to our social/cultural shift?

How does this reflect on the experience of click bait?

How does this contribute to the language of viral/virus?

Who is our audience and what is to be said about anonymous crowd pooling diversity?