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  1. Oct 2024
    1. In 2016, the Twitter account @Sciencing_Bi was created by an anonymous bisexual Native American Anthropology professor at Arizona State University (ASU). She talked about her experiences of discrimination and about being one of the women who was sexually harassed by a particular Harvard professor. She gained a large Twitter following among academics, including one of the authors of this book, Kyle.

      I feel like authenticity is ver important in social media. For example when people argue on social media or when they see they are wrong in an argument the jump to saying stuff that is not authentic pulling sources that are not real and making stuff up, which is very deceiving for people trying to make that connection on social media

    1. es of data on social media platforms are organized as lists, such as lists of friends or followers lists of posts lists of photos in a post lists of people who liked a post etc.

      This made m think about how a person would like to get there followers up on instagram and how easy it is to just follow a bunch of people, but not think about how much coding/programming there is to follow a single person. It really makes me think how complicated programming is because one single follow equals to be one line of code and imagine that for 10s of thousands of follows.

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      I feel like the user interface is a super important part of social media as if we talked about in class for making connections and meeting new people. I forgot what that circle you made in class was but it goes over what social media does to you as a person and what you can gain from it as well. But overall the user interface I would say connects a lot to the circle you showed us.