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I am writing a research paper for my English class on the Deaf Community in Social Media. This is partly assigned, partly my choice. Social Media is an overall theme for the class, so for this assignment I was to choose a specific use of social media, or a specific group in relation to social media, thusly, I chose to research the Deaf Community within social media.
The thesis/theory I set out with is basically that social media would be a bigger deal in some ways to the Deaf community/culture, than to us hearing folks who have an easier time communicating 'in person'. In fact the first draft of my thesis stated that social media is revolutionary to the sense of culture within the Deaf community. I based this on nothing more than on an 'intuitive' assumption, and to make a stronger argument.
The problem I have come to is I am not finding this to be the case. Either, because it isn't the case, or because I am looking in the wrong place. This 'problem' is actually a good thing so long as I can find some sort of interpretation or explanation to shed light onto it. A criteria of my research paper is that I do present a counter-argument to my thesis. At this point I am wondering if I will in fact have to change my thesis upside down into it's opposite and present my original assumption as a counter-argument.
I have so far been looking at facebook, the most used social media platform, in fact the #1 most visited site on the web globally (google ranks second). I have found a few pages pertaining to the deaf community, but they are not particularly popular, therefore not supportive of my thesis.
So can anyone offer insight into my lack of findings? Why does it appear that Deaf people are not the social media junkies that humans with fully functioning auditory perception have become? What do you people do with your time if you aren't following the hearing majority down the path of evolution into technology zombies?
The thesis/theory I set out with is basically that social media would be a bigger deal in some ways to the Deaf community/culture, than to us hearing folks who have an easier time communicating 'in person'. In fact the first draft of my thesis stated that social media is revolutionary to the sense of culture within the Deaf community. I based this on nothing more than on an 'intuitive' assumption, and to make a stronger argument.
The problem I have come to is I am not finding this to be the case. Either, because it isn't the case, or because I am looking in the wrong place. This 'problem' is actually a good thing so long as I can find some sort of interpretation or explanation to shed light onto it. A criteria of my research paper is that I do present a counter-argument to my thesis. At this point I am wondering if I will in fact have to change my thesis upside down into it's opposite and present my original assumption as a counter-argument.
I have so far been looking at facebook, the most used social media platform, in fact the #1 most visited site on the web globally (google ranks second). I have found a few pages pertaining to the deaf community, but they are not particularly popular, therefore not supportive of my thesis.
So can anyone offer insight into my lack of findings? Why does it appear that Deaf people are not the social media junkies that humans with fully functioning auditory perception have become? What do you people do with your time if you aren't following the hearing majority down the path of evolution into technology zombies?