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Jonah E. Bromwich and Ezra Marcus. The Anonymous Professor Who Wasn’t. The New York Times, August 2020. URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/style/college-coronavirus-hoax.html
In summary, a BethAnn created a fake Twitter account in order to spread awareness of the MeTooStem movement. The movement went out to bring out the subtle dangers of STEM in education that surrounded sexual harassment towards women. However, the fake account took advantage of an ethnic culture in order to create falsified claims and an identity in order to push agenda with the addition of raising money. After faking the fake person's death, it was soon found out that the account was run by none other than her while the professor she portrayed never existed. Not only did this show inauthenticity, the situation took advantage of another culture group's social issue in order to push another which in turn caused distraught and anger amongst the Native community.
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How do you notice yourself changing how you express yourself in different situations, particularly on social media? Do you feel like those changes or expressions are authentic to who you are, do they compromise your authenticity in some way?
I'm part of different discord groups. The way that I chat or present myself differs between each group. It also depends on my comfort level. With my close friends, I can be open and talk about whatever. In groups I'm not as close with, I usually stay reserved which I believe doesn't show my true authentic self. I don't think it compromises my authenticity, it just takes me a while to warm up.
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Nicholas Jackson and Alexis C. Madrigal. The Rise and Fall of Myspace. The Atlantic, January 2011. URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/01/the-rise-and-fall-of-myspace/69444/ (visited on 2023-11-24).
Article talks about the downfall of Myspace. About 500 people were laid off in 2011, which is close to 50 percent of the workforce. A timeline shows Myspace's growth and downfall. In 2005, it was reported that the site had 27 million users. Site was also popular for musical artists. 2006, it was projected to have 200 million users. However, the company start to lose its identity in 2009 after the COO and two senior vice presidents left. It seemed that the business was growing out of control and possible DMC strikes were made since people were able to download artist's music from their website.
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.7.1. Consider Different Use Cases
I'm just gonna fire off ideas that come off the top of my head - find good places to eat - learn a new hobby - find places to visit - keep up with sports news - how to videos (instructional) learning a skill - how to fix something - what my friends are doing - browse a community that relates to you - reviews/opinions on products (decide what to buy)
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Caroline Delbert. Some People Think 2+2=5, and They’re Right. Popular Mechanics, October 2023. URL: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/math/a33547137/why-some-people-think-2-plus-2-equals-5/ (visited on 2023-11-24).
Article talks about Kareem Carr and how he pushes the idea that 2+2 = 5 depends on many different things (in his words, axioms). It sparked controversy on Twitter but is mentioned in Popular Mechanics that he speaks some truth due to certain aspects such as chemistry and physics. 2 cups baking soda + 2 cups vinegar for example means more than 4 cups of reacted foam that produces. It's also an idea that has been around for a century where Math has been pushed beyond what is on paper when it comes to just numbers. For example, a 5 on a scale for pain could mean something different for many people. Could mean it hurts a lot or not as much.
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Can you think of an example of pernicious ignorance in social media interaction? What’s something that we might often prefer to overlook when deciding what is important
Making posts about a country that you visit. Could say something like this place is dirty and it will give others the idea that a certain place isn't nice to visit. May affect other's opinions and plans when it comes to visiting a place for vacation or just the overall thought of a place.
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Zack Sharf. ‘Star Wars: The Last Jedi’ Backlash: Academic Study Reveals 50% of Online Hate Caused by Russian Trolls or Non-Humans. October 2018. URL: https://www.indiewire.com/features/general/star-wars-last-jedi-backlash-study-russian-trolls-rian-johnson-1202008645/ (visited on 2023-12-02).
Article talks about how Star Wars: The Last Jedi overall view and opinions of the film were affected by bots outside of the U.S. It tied with political agenda in which social media is being used to push political agendas and for some reason the film had one behind it. Shows that bots can be harmful when gathering data or consensus of a general opinion; or even yet, a political one.
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3.2.3. Corrupted bots# As a final example, we wanted to tell you about Microsoft Tay a bot that got corrupted. In 2016, Microsft launched a Twitter bot that was intended to learn to speak from other Twitter users and have conversations. Twitter users quickly started tweeting racist comments at Tay, which Tay learned from and started tweeting out within one day. Read more about what went wrong from Vice How to Make a Bot That Isn’t Racist [c14]
As AI is continue to grow, this is a prime example of mechanisms and policies that need to be put into place in order to prevent bots from gaining a negatively biased language model. Testing on racist comments wasn't part of the development process which without it can further the already existent cyberbullying space.
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What motivated Twitter users to put time and energy into this?
Tweet targets an entire continent of people and their culture. If she visited my home country, I'd be furious as well. Ultimately, users wanted some sort of punishment and spreading word seemed like the one way ticket to justice. No courtroom is going punish her from saying racist comments so what better way than to jeopardize her job by connecting her employment with a company?
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Being and becoming an exemplary person (e.g., benevolent; sincere; honoring and sacrificing to ancestors; respectful to parents, elders and authorities, taking care of children and the young; generous to family and others). These traits are often performed and achieved through ceremonies and rituals (including sacrificing to ancestors, music, and tea drinking), resulting in a harmonious society.
In the form of social media, I can see this backfiring when respecting elderly or absolute authority in terms of politics or business relations. What comes to mind is a story of a woman who created TikTok videos of the benefits of being a single independent women. However, a politician leader ridiculed her lifestyle disproportionately comparing her to the American representation of a family which is being married and having kids. Not only did this cause cyber bullying against the woman, the politician's respectable seat of power was used to push an image that doesn't apply to everyone further causing marginalization of women. All of which is because he had a platform and millions of people that respected him due to his age and backgorund.
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