Document Type
Thesis
Degree
Bachelor of Arts in English
Advisor
Margaret Case, Ph.D.
Abstract
Since its creation in 2004, Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook has become a part of our everyday lives. With over 500 million users, many might assume that Facebook is a fairly innocuous software tool, helping to bring global inclusiveness and immediate contact between friends and family. However, this analysis will reveal disturbing questions: Has Facebook allowed for more transparency within society; or, conversely, has it promoted an unhealthy tendency to create integrated multiple realities? Has Zuckerberg achieved his original goal to create "openness" or has he paradoxically allowed people to become authors of their own deceptively selective fictions?
Recommended Citation
Katherine, Marshall, "Facebook Phenomenon: Becoming the "Authors'’ of Our Own Selective Fiction" (2012). English Theses. 73.
https://docs.rwu.edu/english_theses/73
