Depp-Heard Trial: Social Media & Public Perception

Social Interaction

• Identify the sociological building blocks of social interaction.
• Recognize ways in which social media does and does not affect social interaction.
• Describe how feminist theory highlights the role of emotions in social interaction.
• Explain the importance of power in social interaction.
• Summarize how symbolic interactionism improves understanding of verbal and nonverbal communication.

The Building Blocks of Interaction

• Social interaction encompasses how people relate to one another.
• Before 2020, the intersection of Chicago Avenue and East 38th Street in Minneapolis served as a typical spot.
• On May 25, 2020, George Floyd’s murder occurred at that intersection.
• The intersection became a memorial known as Justice for George Floyd and This is a Sacred Place.
• Visitors of all races globally went to pay respects and stand in solidarity.
• New entrants into any social scene experience disorientation.

Social Environment

• Includes real or imagined others to whom a person is connected.

Organizations

• Collectivities with a structure encouraging patterns in individual action.
• People in organizations act in patterned ways.
• Instructors lecture while students listen.
• Organizations are social spaces where people connect to others.

Status and Role

• Status is a culturally defined position or social location.
• Norms, learned in culture, are accepted ways of doing things.
• Individuals assume positions (statuses) with expectations (norms).
• People know their location on a social map and follow routines.
• People occupy statuses, but a person is not reducible to a single status.
• Organizations exist independently of individuals.
• People bring statuses to life, which is where two main ways of occupying a position exist: ascription and achievement.
• Ascribed status is a social position imposed at birth, like race, sex, age, or country of origin.
• Achieved status is acquired through effort, like marital status, educational attainment, or occupation.
• Roles are clusters of expectations associated with statuses.
• In most countries, traditional masculinity involves suppressing emotions to project assertiveness, confidence and power.
• Statuses differ in how much they constrain people.

Master Status

• Denotes a social position central to a person or others' social identity.
• Identification with the status is strong, making it central to understanding one's thoughts, feelings, and actions.
• Master statuses can be achieved, like "athlete" or "lawyer," or imposed, overshadowing achievements.
• For ascribed characteristics, someone might be called a "disabled lawyer."

Role Performance

• Freedom and constraint always present in social life.
• Role-playing: Conforms to social conventions.
• Role expectations may be unclear, incomplete, or contradictory.
• Role-making: Creative process of generating and performing roles.
• Displays individuality and autonomy.

Role Set and Status Set

• Figures showcase simultaneous statuses like mother, wife, and teacher.
• Dashed straight lines separate roles, while solid straight lines separate statuses.

Role Conflict and Role Strain

• Role conflict arises from holding multiple statuses with differing role demands.
• Holding a single status with incompatible role demands results in role strain.

Social Interaction

• Process by which role performers act in relation to others.
• Mixture of role-making and role-taking.
• People are governed by social structures and by agents who shape their actions.
• Medium of communication (face-to-face or technology) influences interaction.

Instrumental and Expressive Communication.

• Instrumental Communication – involves sending messages that are a means to an end.
• Expressive Communication involves sending messages that are ends in themselves.

Mediated Interaction

• Communication using technologies.
• The most direct form of interaction is face-to-face.
• Face-to-face interactions are synchronous, rich with social cues, difficult to save etc..
• Web-based communication are asynchronous, generally poorly endowed with clues etc..
• Technologies sparked debate on social life effects.
• Smart technologies risks reducing attention, memory and are also said to lower trust and privacy.
• The other side of the debate is they provide access to great knowledge, making social life safer/ more interesting

Technological determinism

• Assumption that adoption of technologies leads to inevitable effects.
• Fails to account for individuality

Media's Impact on Empathy and Well-Being.

• The introduction of smartphones and social media has led to discourse over impacts on Empathy.
• 2 main factors held as Chiefly Responsible
• Face-to-face gives people the range of human emotion, social media risks misunderstanding.
• Involve remote and anonymous communication.
• Twenty-first century, North American undergraduates are less concerned for others and less able to see other viewpoints.
• Schools using "no fail" policies with limited error correction and intense completion being responsible.
• Engagement prosocial acts like cooperative video games tends to make people empathetic.
• Can even lead to more Empathy and Viciousness.
• Social Media and Well-Being

Social Media and Well-Being

• Displacement hypothesis.
• Smart phones are destroy a generation

Social Media and Fan Empathy: Depp v. Heard

• Heard and Debb were engaged in Virginia Civil Court between
• Featured intensity from viewers leading to Deff being glorified across TikTok
• The opposite for heard.
• Depp has a high presence in American fan base culture

Feminist Theory and Emotions

• Structured by norms, statuses, roles, and media of communication.
• Study of conversations between people showing woman laugh more
• Person eliciting laughter earns attention, higher status (men) earn more.

Emotion Management

• Emotions are not just reactions to external disturbances but have been socially structured.
• Emotion management: Obeying "feeling rules."
• Need to mourn in a particular way after someone's death.

Emotion Labour

• Emotion management is management that many people require as part of their jobs, and for they they are paid to do so.
• Flight attended.
• Has increased because of current economy focused on services.

Conflict theories of Social Interaction.

• Social interaction are competition for valued resources.
• Stronger attempts to steer conversation.
• Taking turns to make sure needs met between parties.
• Subtle competition for attention with limited egocentric behavior.

Power and Interaction.

• Inequality strongly affects that between interacting parties.
• Dominator interactions – Low-status people live in fear.
• Cooperation — power distributed, with trust.

Power and Position

• Mostly a product of social circumstances.
• Embedded of statuses and relationships.
• People in those situations.
• Power determinant unequal part how mainly design.
• Cultural scaffolding for taking granted quality

Symbolic Interaction

• Fair or altruistic behavior based on learned norms.
• George Hebert Mead proposed "Taking the role" for a clearer understanding.
• Constant negotiations and modification for preferences.
• Dramaturgical analysis.

Dramaturgical Analysis

• One of variants of symbolic interactionism and has been improved upon over the Alberta system.
• Requires use of props etc as in a stage play
• When go back stage relax and discuss
• Distinguish between public and truce selves
• It is important to note when back stage continues to role play and manage impression.
• No single role for one self just the role one plays
• Each has norms what to wear etc.
• Role distributing if role is stressful through motion less commitment.

Ethnomethodology

• The study of how people make sense of what others do and say by adhering to preexisting norms.
• Goffmans View of Social Interaction of being untethered through roles.

Verbal and Non Verbal communication

• Was the study of electronic translations stating, "say French to Hungarian or Russian" in the 1950s by British.

The Social Context of Language

• Today high machine translation is widely available.
• This has led to AI in better machine translations due to nuances.
• More is to come to learn non verbal settings.

Status Cues

• Involve relationships between individuals
• Need information in social position
• Range of factors to the living conditions.

Body and face of emotions

• Female has less power through speech.
• Reinforced has has less power.
• Study to confirm show posture power
• Posturing can lead to people feel.

Social Life

• Tends to be orderly
• Easy to state order
• Of human with of culture from what is possible

Explore the Depp-Heard trial's impact on public perception via social media. Analyze meme differences, platform influence, and parasocial relationships. Understand the role of anonymity and selective empathy in shaping online behavior during the trial.