Pierre Dubois is born!

Our last assignment for Contemporary Media Issues is definitely interesting one! We have been asked to create a fictional character and give it life through the use of Facebook and two other social websites. This is definitely one of my favorite assignments we've had!

The 6 of us in the group decided that we wanted to create a 'Flat' of roomates, but create very stereotypical characters. 

My character being French, and male, meant that I could have some fun with the whole thing, and a whole different identity. 

Character Profle:

Name: Pierre Léon Dubois

Age: 21
Birthday: 31st October 1991
Occupation: Student
University: University of Liverpool, World culture and Literature.

Then we started looking into what types of relations we could have. Stevie and I wanted to create French brothers, So that is how Jackques Dubois was born. 

I started off creating a Facebook

He got 116 friends!

I found interacting with others amusing, as a lot of people did not recognise it was me. I tried to make him look a real as possible using ideas from my own Facebook profile. I added Likes, and interests on his page, and even interacted with French people, added from a group I joined.

The fact I was able to communicate in French was actually quite an interesting experience, and made it much more believable.

I also added a Tumblr account and Soundcloud, and also Twitter, where I could interact with my group and their characters.

We even created our own little facebook group dedicated to our Flat called 'Flat 34' 

Here we spoke to each other, in our characters, sometimes being in French which was also very humorous.

Click the picture to look at Pierre's Profile Page

Website developments

So today I've done a few mock-up for my website design layout. Initially I started on Dreamweaver, using the design view, although it was actually really time consuming, as i thought it would be just as quick to just put everything onto Dreamweaver, rather than developing it on Photoshop first then importing it.

Creating them on Photoshop meant i could play around more with the design.
I won't post the mass amount of design i came up with, but here is my final design.

Social Networking Wiki

We were told to create another Wiki Page using Wet paint about Social Networking for another assignment. 

In groups of 5 or 6m we were asked to create a 300 word thread about one of these subject areas:

Social Networking and Identity

Social Networking and Collective Intelligence

Social Networking and the Creation of Communities

Social Networking and Democracy

Social Networking and Distribution

I chose to do Sicial Networking and democracy. I found it quite interesting researching this because I didn't belive so many groups and pages were made just about deforestation on social networks. I came across a thread on a website about how Greenpeach were outraged about Mattel's deforestation habits within their company, which forced 'Ken' to be spokesperson for Greenpeace!

Here's the link to the Wiki Page