IS? Graffiti Social Media?

From Social Media To Human Media - critical reflection on social media & some design methods to design social environments

View more presentations from Niels Hendriks Susan Herring and associates have concluded that, '... social networks consist of people connected through various social relationships and exchanges ...' (Herring et al, 2005). dawg is prepared to argue here that GRAFFITI and its derivatives (paste-ups, tagging etc. etc.) is just that - socialisation , but in pictorial form. Artists and taggers express themselves to each another and to an ever widening audience (thanks to the Internet) in a manner that is saying something about them in a language that others can understand

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So by graffiti(ing) on my own image, what does that say about me? 

Social spaces - cumulus conference Paris 2011

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Are we all contributing to social spaces by using a variety of
graffiti, to send a message in one form or another to each other like the
Ancient Egyptians did with pictographs?. (dawg does
not condone the use of illegal drugs btw...Image 4.
((which has now been painted over by the Hobart City Council 10-10-2011))
So is graffiti a social message then? AND who are they talking to about what?

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