Our Quote discussions

The quote was simply a twitter post (tweet) 'Sssshh! Game of thrones!'

We discussed the affordances and constraints of a medium that has features such as the 140 character limit, but also affordances such as hashtags, hyperlinks, real time updating and easily accessible archives.

We talked about how shorter quotes are often quite catchy which helps them stick in the brain.

We looked at the fact that the user uses an imperative, and why this might be. It may have been said in jest, or perhaps he was being straightforward. Perhaps he was conveying that Game of Thrones is sacred, and must not be talked over, or that he simply wishes to hear what happens on the show, or that he does not want people to tell him about what happens in the episode, or that he cannot spare the attention to read other user's tweets while the episode is on.

He may have been using a very weak form of influential power, however if the post was played for laughs than it is likely he was not trying to exert any kind of power.

Finally we discussed the context of the post. I think that the post was made on the day of the recent episode of game of thrones that aired a couple of weeks ago, as he makes another reference to a character called 'The Mountain', whose most notable appearance was in a recent episode of the show. There was also another user who tweeted about giving lessons for fictional language 'Dothraki'. There are a few other reasons why people might be talking about game of thrones, but I feel the above are most likely.