Twitter Narrative Individual Summary

Part II:

1)      What surprised you about your narrative? How did you adapt?

For our narrative, what surprise me is that our story for Twitter goes entirely different from the original idea with its development. Since our company is a family business, at first, we plan to tell the story between family members of this company, and everyone plays a role as a family member. Then, in order to well use the hashtag, create conflicts, and draws more attention, some of our role changes into customers to interact with company, and our narrative is changed a lot but also enriched.  For instance, I become a travel enthusiast who is a customer of hash restaurant. I tell my travel story as a comment on the hashtag “call for story”, and for this reason I contact with a member in hash restaurant and finally fall in love with her.

2)      Identify the points you are most proud of.

As a travel enthusiast in our twitter narrative, I pretend I have many traveling experiences and I tell my real travel story in Chongqing China for our twitter narrative. What makes me feel proud is I am followed by a travel agency @WZhonestytravel who may think I am a real travel enthusiast travel from country to country.

3)      What form of media was most useful?

I think photo image is the most useful media for us. It draws more attention than simple text.  The image can enrich our twitter content and it is more vivid and impressive to readers. Besides, although video is also a useful media, but for us, we may not able to create a great video without much preparation and good edit skill.

4)      What form of media did you enjoy the most?

Vlog is the media I enjoy the most. It is an interesting experience to make a vlog, since our vlog is to imitate Taylor Swift’s music video Love Story, and we add funny plot and creative ideas to make it has comedy effect.  

5)      Least useful?

I think the least useful media is blog. We use twitter to communicate, share, and draw attention with short text, image, and video. The blog however has very long articles provide information for readers, which is less interesting and attractive.

6)      Least enjoyable?

Text is least enjoyable because for me, because writing is less interesting than creating photo image or vlog. But still, it is a useful and basic media for us to tell story and explain ideas to make audience understand better.    

7)      Identify the points you would change and what you would do differently.

I think some of the story plots in our twitter narrative could be enriched, because our story develops a little fast that two members in hash restaurant falls in love with each other and get married in a short time. So, if I could change, I would add more details in the plots about the development of relationship between these roles. 

3 Possible TEDtalk Topics

1.how to become a successful online shopper

2.the steps of playing Iliad card game

3.how to decorate a Christmas tree

Using Vlog in Twitter Narrative

Using Vlog in Twitter Narrative

      Considering that vlog is a useful media we can use to attract more audience. In our narrative story, we will use vlog to create a short video about the cooking competition between two cookers in our restaurant. It is a kind of live cooking show which not only displays the cooking skills of our chef in this restaurant, also the process of cooking and competition can be really excited. The audiences may be interested in this cooking show, and some of them who interested in the cooking methods of hash will also watch this vlog to learn some tips. Therefore, this interesting vlog can help us to advertise our products to customers and also attract more audience on Twitter.

Completed Essay

Western Etiquette Culture Migrates to China

With the long-term communication between western and eastern countries, western etiquette culture has spilled over into many areas of people’s lives in China. Nowadays, it is not unusual to see exotic scenes in our daily lives. People drink coffee, use western-style tableware like knives and forks at western restaurants, wearing bridal veil and suits at the wedding, greeting their colleagues and friends with the word “Mr.” or “Miss” in public places. What changes the migration of western etiquette culture brings to China? What influences it leads to? It is worth exploring and considering.

The migration of western etiquette culture brings several new elements to Chinese etiquette culture and makes it change or develop gradually. The first one to be discussed is the social etiquette culture. For a long time, Chinese traditional etiquette culture had profound influences to people’s lives. But since the 1911 Revolution, with the influences of western bourgeoisie’s thoughts “liberty, equality and democracy” (Zhu 39), Chinese traditional etiquette culture suffered a great impact, then in the next May Fourth New Culture Movement, backward and decayed Chinese feudal ethical code was abandoned, and western social etiquette cultures were accepted gradually. Traditional ceremonial behaviors such as bowing and kneeling down in the old days of China are replaced by shaking hands, nodding and smiling. In addition, with the influence western concepts of equality, women’s status is improved notably. Chinese old thought that men are superior to women is replaced by the principle of “ladies first”. For instance, when meeting someone and having a friendly handshake, men should hold out their hands after ladies stretching out hers (Eyring 163). Women are also subject to preferential treatment when they go into the elevator, get on and off the bus, and so on. Moreover, the Chinese traditional social etiquette believes being self-effacing and modest in social occasions shows one’s good personal qualities, but with closer communication between countries, western social etiquette which forces on efficiency and self-confidence rather than stick to polite formulas and be too humble becomes more pragmatic and available, therefore, it is accepted by Chinese gradually.

The second is western dress etiquette culture migrates to China. In ancient China, costume was closely related to the class and identity, it depended on complicated systems and rules. Along with the Opium War which opened the door of China, China entered into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society, the social structure was changed, western lifestyle and cultures came to China. The western-style clothes were also spread to China just at that time, but it really became popular after the founding of the Republic of China. Based on western-style clothes, the leader of Xinhai Revolution Sun Zhongshan designed the Chinese tunic suit which combined the characteristic of both Chinese and western clothes, and it was widely used as man’s formal clothes in many important occasions that time (Zhu 42). Besides, Chinese women’s traditional clothes cheongsam also had an improvement at that time. It abandoned the old form of traditional Chinese clothing which always had wide robe and large sleeves, absorbed western aesthetic taste and boldly showed female curvaceous shape. It was a successful attempt which used traditional Chinese clothes and fused western culture meanwhile. Moreover, dress in some big occasions of China changes a lot because of the migration of western dress etiquette culture. For instance, at a traditional Chinese wedding, groom and bride both should wear red wedding clothes, the bride must use a red cloth to cover her head before the wedding finishes. But in today’s wedding, the groom usually wears a black suit with leather shoes, and the bride is supposed to wear a white bridal veil and high-heeled shoes.

Thirdly, the migration of western dining etiquette culture also brings considerable influences to China. After the Opium War in 1840, western powers flooded into China, and western cuisine and western dinning etiquette culture were brought there at the same time. More western-style restaurants were set up in China, western food became popular and western dining etiquette was known and observed by more and more Chinese people. For example, it is a basic etiquette to keep the fork in the left hand and the knife or spoon in the right during the meal (McCray 146). People are supposed to keep quiet and sit up straight when having meal, talking loudly or hunching over can be regarded as a very impolite behavior.

China has been a state of ceremonies from of old, thousands of years’ civilization contributes to its complete etiquette culture. However, because of the risen of Chinese etiquette culture at ancient time was to meet the need of its social system, it’s inevitable that it contained some characteristic features of that time and limitations. Therefore, the migration of western etiquette culture is effectively promote the development of Chinese etiquette culture, it eliminates a lot of backward and decayed factors of Chinese etiquette culture, brings vigor and vitality to it and makes it keeps up with the trend of times. But meanwhile, it is also important to insure the migration of western etiquette culture will not downplay positive impacts of Chinese traditional etiquette culture, which play a great role on the national cohesion, cultural inheritance, integration and development.

Final Infographic Project

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Use Media in Twitter Narrative

In our twitter narrative, we use broadcast to create a story and get more audience’s attention. There is an old couple who eating in the hash restaurant arguing about whether they should go abroad for travelling after the missing of airline MH370. In this situation, we broadcast the news of the missing of airline MH370 in our restaurant to draw customers’ attention to this event. And also the audience who know details of the incident might believe our narrative. Then we can put this small story happened in our restaurant into twitter to trigger the discussion of readers. This is a way to use different media to create a story and attract more attention.

Response to "Is Twitter a 2 way Street?"

From the Freaknomics Blog, we learned that actually there is no necessary connection between following more people and being followed by more people. It can be possible that you follow a large number of people but the followers on your tweeter are reducing, while some other people do not follow many but have lots of followers. So, how to attract more followers on Twitter? In one way, you should be active and post some interesting tweets regularly on your Twitter, and gradually you might become famous on Twitter and followed by more people. For instance, Halpern’s tweeter has many followers because his writing about the shit that Halpern’s dad says, which attracts many readers attention. And the second is that you are a famous and popular person in real life, and there will be many followers on your blog.