I never thought about the fact that there are specific designs that have the power to exclude people, but given the broad scope of design, this makes sense and I agree with the sentiment of design justice. One example I can think of when it comes to design justice is video games having fewer playable characters of darker skin tones. Although games have slowly been moving towards representing women, many do not have the option to change skin tones. This is many times an afterthought. This widened my perspective on the idea that companies should hire designers of different groups to be inclusive of all.

I agree with the sentiment that there are numerous challenges involved when it comes to designing things. We often take for granted the fact that certain designs may not be inclusive for particular groups of people. I’m very interested in this aspect of design, especially when it comes to making designs that are inclusive of disabled people, such as those who rely on screen readers or are color blind. I find this conclusion of the chapter useful because there are important things to keep in mind when designing something. This reminds me of my INFO 498 C class, where they address that as a game designer, you must take into consideration the different feedback that you will receive in order to improve upon your product.

I’m not surprised by these statistics at all. Women are definitely more likely to be the target of smear campaigns, especially if they are people of color. Black people are often targeted too. This probably has to do with misogyny and unconscious (or conscious) racial bias.

I recently watched a documentary about how cyberstalking had caused a girl to go through emotional distress. Snapchat makes cyberstalking an easy feature because it allows for people to look at your location and follow you. I’ve encountered several people who have had issues with Snapchat’s location settings. Although you can turn it off, some people forget.

Unfortunately, these are the many ways in which crowdsourcing can cause harm. Reddit especially has a history of people creating threads to be internet sleuths from the comforts of their own home. Though people on Reddit can solve mysteries at times, they also don’t know all of the facts of the case like law enforcement.

Basically, it’s like two people collaborating on a project? I wonder if a large team of people collaborating on a programming project is an example of crowdsourcing. For instance, Google functions through a large group of developers. Is this considered crowdsourcing?

This is a big reason why many of these social media apps are popular around fan communities. With the recommendation algorithm in store, it allows users to interact with people who have the same interests as themselves. I can see how this can be harmful if you have interests that align with hate groups, however. When you are stuck in the echo chamber, there are more people to reaffirm your thoughts.

I’ve seen Twitter’s algorithm being a common complaint among users on the app, especially recently due to Elon Musk taking over the app. The issue is that people are now complaining about their lack of interest in the content that is being recommended to them on the timeline. Additionally, you may interact with a post for a topic that you don’t necessarily like, but the recommendation algorithm will still assume that you want to see similar tweets and show you more posts like that.

I’ve seen this being done in coding through screen readers for visually impaired people. When someone wants to write out code, the screen reader will assist in reading out what a person is typing. However, assistive technology still has a long way to go. For instance, it cannot tell what an image is and can only read out the image ID.

I’ve seen this been a prominent issue in people with neurological disorders. Often times, it is stigmatized compared to disabilities like blindness, even though it is something that a person is born with. In society, people have the tendency to treat someone who is neurodivergent as non-human while a neurotypical person is considered to be “normal.”

This is an ethical framework I disagree with because following this line of thought makes a person likely to believe that they have no moral responsibility. In my opinion, to be human is to determine whether things are ethical or not, even if you may not fully be correct. Deciding that there is no right and wrong would leave us in a world that is not bound by law and order.

This is definitely true. I feel as if people are less likely to act like themselves on social media, especially if there is an anonymous factor tied to it. For instance, a person who takes on the profile picture of a famous celebrity may subconsciously believe that they have that celebrity's face, and thus, they can say or do things that they wouldn't normally be able to otherwise. The same thing can said about people posting their own faces or bodies. Nowadays, there's plenty of ways to change your appearance. Filters are so common on Tiktok that you rarely see people without them.