These diseases were practically gone.

others

Due to anti-vaxxer activity in the Midwest of the United States

Recently, the anti-vaxxer movement has been controversial in the news media.

This can be an extremely powerful tool when it comes to discussing health problems such as diseases and conditions.

According to Brian Clark of Insider for The Next Web, “A recent study by Stanford University revealed the vast majority of Reddit’s conflicts originate in just one percent of its communities. Subreddits, as they’re known on the site, are category-specific groups that steer the conversation around a central topic or theme. And most are relatively tame. These are the groups responsible for thoughtful discourse and mostly respectful debate, the behavior that keeps most users engaged and active on the site,”

scalate arguments to new heights which cannot be described as anything but thoughtful discourse

A negative aspect with any technology is that a part of humanity will always try and use it with malicious intent.

internet trolls

people will take advantage

to the free nature

cesspool however

“If you spend a lot of time online, chances are you’ve heard of Reddit. The site bills itself as the “front page of the internet,” and that’s not an empty boast: As of this writing, Reddit is the fifth most popular site in the United States, according to Alexa, and the 18th worldwide. So what exactly is Reddit? Essentially, it’s a massive collection of forums, where people can share news and content or comment on other people’s posts,”

William Nicol

As described by DigitalTrends,

Facebook is known for being a platform where it easy to connect to other people, friends, family, and people belonging to several communities. Facebook allows users to make posts, post pictures/videos, share personal information, follow pages and interests, as well as, like and comment on everything, and in recent years have added features such as live streaming, sending money, video chatting, stories, phone calls, selling, and even fundraising. Instagram is popular platform known for the use of posting pictures, private messaging, liking, commenting, and have recently introduced stories and live streaming. Snapchat is basically all stories and chats, and Youtube is stories, videos, commenting, and Twitter is for updating followers and the President, etc. While these are what we commonly associate as social media, and what many decide to constantly critique, there many other platforms as well as benefits which are not realized by the masses.

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Social media is in essence

Social media and technological advancements have provided for great benefits to the health of our society and to the overall health of individuals world wide.

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The year is 2019, well into the twenty-first century, where we live in an age that can be described as modern and advanced. Our lived have been enriched by all sorts of new technologies in all aspects such as education, agriculture, medicine, conducting business, and just our daily lives.

possibility of association with infamous people and groups

implications

‘Selfies on iPhone X’ which related to people during isolated times

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either through discussions, sharing

Blair Witch Project

viral

One tool that can be used by content makers to determine the potential to go viral is Millward Brown LinkTM solution. This tool has been used

Moreover, there are tools that can be used to measure

Through this simple surprise, the video made a break in the platform and even spilt on Facebook.

Contrasting negative and positive emotions are specifically useful in increasing the number of shares video gets.

Among the top ten most desired emotions that prompt the necessity for sharing among users of social media include amusement, interest, surprise, happiness, joy, hope, delight, pleasure, affection and excitement

This explains the virality of the video, Chewbacca Mom which holds the record of being the most shared on Facebook.

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Southgate et al., (349).

Just like the social media platforms where they are shared, viral pictures, videos, messages and other media are often interruptive.

The ability of content to rapidly gather traction and be shared widely multiple times is the bases of viral business and marketing.

relevance

Phelps et al.

mainly using email

hose who pass email messages along making them viral

journal of advertising research

two-focus point, the show and the concealed

utilizes

The quality of being viral is, therefore, the bases of virality as a given item or piece of information requires to be popularized by progressive sharing through the internet and especially in social media

Virality

irality is the tendency of a piece of information, image or a video to be rapidly shared among users of the internet by person to person circulation without the quality being affected

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gives in to this viral culture

False Prophets

The scene is demonstrating that sometimes people are so focused on virality and online approval or attention that they fail to realize that this acceptance and appreciation is already present in real life.

As the audience, we didn’t even know that Kayla was at the dinner table with her father in the first place. All of the attention is on the phone until her dad interrupts

as an artist in terms of fame, but also how in the end he did not let it impact his authenticity. My second cultural artifact is the dinner table scene from the movie Eighth

In this particular scene,

There are even slang terms that were developed for this exact purpose: “flex”, “drip”, “ice”, etc.

The controversy that arises from these J. Cole songs brings attention to him, whether positive or negative.

portrays his opposition towards viral culture.

Kanye West

rapper (J. Cole)

He feels

Justifying that half-ass shit he dropped, we always buy it.

The purpose of this may have been to make sure nothing interfered with the message that the rapper was trying to put out, or possibly to prove a point about his music that he doesn’t have to create music a certain way in order to receive appreciation from his fans.

however I will be focusing on a rap song called False Prophets by J. Cole, and a scene from the film Eighth Grade.

Throughout each generation, there are defining characteristics that are present within that time period. In modern day, social media dominates many of our lives and plays a significant role in society altogether. As a result, there is a higher involvement and interest in other people’s lives, as well as an increased emphasis on self-expression, people’s reactions, and popularity. This contributes to viral culture.

In conclusion, these two cultural pieces address the topic of civil unrest, with relation to structural sexism and racism, through two different lenses. The “We the People” illustration comes from the peaceful and inclusive Martin Luther King school of thought when it comes to resisting systemic oppression. On the other hand, “Fight the Power”, comes from the proud, militant Malcolm X school of thought. They are a good representation of the current zeitgeist of our era, in which the topics of racial and gender inequality, islamophobia, and Trump are prominent discourses in society. It is even more of a representation of our era when it is noted that these issues cause people to take social action.

These two art pieces work in tandem to talk about the issue of gender and racial inequality. Both pieces broadly talk about dissatisfied social groups. In the “We the People” illustration, it is talking about gender inequality and islamophobia, and in “Fight the Power”, it is talking about racism. What these pieces have in common is that they are connected to the larger theme of civil unrest. They convey that when things are not fair for social groups, that it causes social unrest.

At the end of the film, these differing philosophies play a direct cause in creating total civil unrest. These two pieces of art still characterize two dominant schools of thought to resisting oppression that are used by civil rights activists to this day.

In the song it says “Our Freedom of Speech is Freedom or Death. We got to fight the powers that be.” This is a rallying call for those in the African-American community to take their liberation into their own hands by identifying the issues in their communities, coming together, and then organizing to counter the system that has caused those problems.

The song is still relevant to this day because these same issues that Public Enemy is talking about are still being tackled by society.

The Women’s March is the epitome of an example of civil unrest as it involved the largest civil protest in U.S history advocating for policies that would promote women’s rights, reproduction right, immigration reform, etc.

This strong image of the American flag being used as a hijab sends a powerful reminder that freedom of religion is one of the founding principles of our country, and muslims are included in that.

which is decorated as the American flag

The “We the People” illustration

I will be detailing what these two pieces have in common, how they are reflective of the times we are living in, as well as their impact on society.

He showcases his fun and outgoing side on the internet, but deep down he’s distracting himself from the overwhelming grief rooted in mourning the death of his father.

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Everything around him is first blurred out and the phone takes up about 50% of the screen and after he takes a selfie, Cooper loses his smile and his facial expressions make it seem like he simply doesn’t care about the place anymore.

One scene

“Playtest,”

Angel Boligan, currently considered one of the greatest cartoonists with 137 international awards, created “Let’s Play”

My Modern Met

The heavy internet dependency has caused society to be stuck and unable to enjoy life’s simplest pleasures.

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It is likely for you to be living in poverty and to stay in poverty if you are a women of color or minority. You are more at an disadvantage if you want to have children or have children to take care of.

In society now, women are portrayed as weak, fragile, and delicate.

Some women get a higher level education (masters degree, PHD) and still struggle to compete for job with a male who’s education level is lower than the women’s. This is unacceptable as the women has spent thousands of dollars to get an additional degree, while the man can compete with her for the same job despite being unqualified

For example, a female elementary teacher would make nowhere near the amount of a male lawyer. The difference is just too huge. A female elementary teacher would make an average $43,000 a year while a male lawyer would make on average $96,514 a year.

For example, women serve in the Navy/Air force/ Marines

The stereotypes that society have for women is that they cannot handle these jobs because it requires top notch skills and brains. There are stereotypes where some believe that women are not as smart and skilled as men.

They

Black Women Equal Pay Day, which happens on Aug 7 on every year.

The name of the day is Equal Pay Day which happens on April 2 of every year. On this day, women march and protest against the wage gap to bring awareness and explain how the wage gap is affecting their life for the worse.

She says that women should not be scared and that they should be fearless to get it.(equal pay)

Another example, is the famous case of Anita Hill. She accused Clarence Thomas, who was nominated to be the next Supreme Court Justice of sexually harassing her while she worked for him. She did not get justice and her case was dismissed, while Thomas went on to be a Supreme Court Justice. She is an great example of third wave feminism and the #metoo movement.

The #metoo movement is one movement that brought awareness to how unequal wages can cause negative side effects in the work environment.

Third wave feminism consists of sexual harassment, assault, and the #metoo movement.

Having a baby will have negative effect on the mother, as mothers go on maternity leave, and will not be paid for the time loss.

This is why I wanted to do my research proposal on the wage gap which women are still suffering from and explain the effects/consequences it has on women today.

If you fit the category of being a minority or women of color, you make less than what the average white women makes (80 cents). You would make an average of 53 cents (to a dollar that a men makes) as a Latina, and 61 cents if you were a women of color.

Women can lose out to $10,000 a year because of the gap.

She received significantly less than she deserve unlike her fellow tennis player (male) who received a significantly higher amount.

Women only make 80 cents to a dollar of what a man makes.

Specifically, the topic is about how the wage gap is affecting women and how they are protesting and having movements, and how there is even an Equal Pay Day,which happens on April 2 of every year, that was used to bring awareness and spread the word of the pay gap inequality women suffer from to this day, and it explains how civil unrest is related to the wage gap.

Psychologically, binge-watchers may be influenced by the fictional narratives of the shows, learning “false facts” from fiction (McDonald 126).

Internet TV is the perfect way to describe Netflix, given that it provides the same aspects of TV with the ability to choose what show to watch. 

Online newspapers have become more readily available through the internet.

They can find any news article from any new source whenever they want. In 2017, newspaper circulation dropped by 11% for weekday circulation and 10% for Sunday circulation. This downward trend has continued since the early 2000s at its peak around 60 million circulated to now with 30 million circulated (“Newspaper Fact Sheet”).

a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur: “The internet has triggered a consumer-led rebellion against the ‘essentially dead’ current business models of selling books, films and music” (Ollier)

Television, on the other hand, requires a specific time and date to watch a certain show.

Coincidently, Google and Facebook are rather popular among the younger generation.

The decline of television primarily resides in the younger population of 18-34-year-olds. Q2 2018 viewership dropped 12.3%, slightly lower than Q2 2017’s viewership drop of 13.3%. In older age groups, 35-49, 50-64, and 65+, only ages 50-64 and 65+ remained relatively stable, having less than 1% of change in viewership in the past year (Lupis). Television is on the path of impending decline as the younger generation slowly replaces the older.

EWOM is essentially the better version of WOM, that was the result of the internet. There are many industries that have been able to thrive off EWOM, and for the entertainment industry, video games are the ones that has found itself benefiting from this change. 

This interaction is called electronic word-of-mouth, EWOM for short

Without the internet, the popularity of video games would be rather limited.

nd the viewer might see the product or service advertised and possible find something beneficial to them.

this trend

Le Bon, The Crowd, 7.

bipartisan nature of American society today

. The results indicate that awe may also have similar effects. By shifting attention from the self toward others, awe may prompt expressions of emotional connection and emotional generosity in social media.”.

Circling back to the ways in which something goes viral the New York Times article that covers Trump adds a piece of study from Professor Richard L Rapson, that commentates on the effect of emotion on viral contagion;  the author adds “[Richard L. Rapson], a professor of psychological history at the University of Hawaii, has studied virality through the lens of emotional contagion. H

The uses of the symbolic contagion are ever present in today’s society as it was back half a decade ago. There is another factor that plays into the uses of these symbols, and that is the time we take to process the information that we are given.

“The Popularity and Virality of Political Social Media: Hashtags, Mentions, and Links Predict Likes and Retweets of 2016 U.S. Presidential Nominees’ Tweets”

and presumably workers clothes shouting a call that I would assume is a call to be educated, which was one of the ideas proposed in communism, education for all.

This example shows how the unified mental inclination of the group furthered the symbolic contagion of the idea. In layman’s terms, it means that symbols breed similar symbols that have the same effect.

“But given recent events in the Middle East, we see how it also relates to widespread outbreaks of anger, disaffection, political violence, and revolution. Indeed, these events are a timely reminder of how sudden shocks to a social system can develop into a spontaneous epidemic, which, on very rare occasions, overwhelms firmly entrenched power institutions. There are, of course, parallels here to Le Bon’s [who was a renowned sociologist famous from his crowd psychology studies] concerns with the threat revolutionary contagion posed to nineteenth-century aristocratic orders in Europe. Le Bon understood democratic crowd contagion to be guided by a dangerous unified mental inclination toward images that could subordinate freewill, pervert the truth, and provoke revolutionary acts of violence. It was, in fact, the mass hallucination of such images through the unconscious crowd that became the mechanism of Le Bon’s hypnotic contagion.”

This contributes to their respective semiotic regime and thus develops a bias.

however, Virality: The Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks looks at virality in a not so frivolous way; in this case it is for more than a livelihood but for social dominance; This is achieved through developing bias

Second, what spreads is said to occur in a representational space of collective contamination in which individual persons who become part of a crowd tend toward thinking in the same mental images (real and imagined). Like this, the reasoned individual is seemingly overpowered by a neurotic mental state of unity unique to the crowd, which renders subjectivity vulnerable to further symbolic contagious encounters and entrainments.

Whether it is part of our genetic code or not one thing is for certain. This quote supports the model of contagion theory obviously, but also points to the pre-determinant that instills the symbols with viral power; the process of contagion involves a pre-social affective, like emotions; the effect that emotions have on the mind of a community of hosts.

irality: The Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks points to this by saying

contagion.”

“Virality: Contagion Theory in the Age of Networks.”

Examples of emotions and symbols being a factor in virality are the Soviet Union’s programming/propaganda  and the 2016 presidential election’s participation on Twitter, the subject of the election is one of high tension and emotion already since it has to do with American politics so there will be existing rhetorics that are in direct opposition with each other along with images such as the infamous red “Make America Great Again” hat

Drake rejecting a statement on the top text and agreeing with a better statement on the bottom text.

illegal prescriptions

Most doctors will not recommend for people to buy their medication online as they are aware of all the dangers that this can pose on a person.

Based on all the research conducted, it is safe to say that the negatives of online pharmacies heavily outweigh the positives of online pharmacies. The amount of danger involved with online pharmacies is not a risk that any person should take. However, as people keep switching to online pharmacies for the lower prices of medication and convenience, the amount of these self-care websites will continue to grow and play a major influence in society

What this shows

For elderly people especially, this poses a larger threat due to the fact that their immune systems are not as good as younger people’s.

You could be taking counterfeit medication without knowing and be messing up your body.

“This new market has undoubted advantages for patients: access to drugs for the disabled or housebound, access 24 hours a day, a virtually unlimited number of products available, relative privacy, which may encourage patients to ask questions about embarrassing issues, and more affordable prices. But direct access to health services, especially drugs, poses a hazard to consumers because it is difficult to determine whether drugs purchased online are counterfeit, unapproved, or illegal. Besides, the inappropriate use of medicines, the limited or nonexistent opportunity for advice (which blurs the line between willful abuse and unknowing misuse), and the risk of increased antibiotic resistance arising from their misuse have also been suggested as negative consequences of online purchase of medication.”

What online pharmacies offer is “better pricing than offline stores, with increased access, lower transaction costs and product costs, convenience and greater anonymity for consumers.”

“An estimated 2986 online pharmacies were operating globally in the year 2008.”

Prescription medicines are among the most counterfeited products worldwide with sales increasing as the years go by. The first online pharmacy that was started was in 1999 which was Drugstore.com and from there more and more online pharmacies were created. This was the first online pharmacy that offered a safe, secure service for customers. However, even one small mistake could cost the online pharmacy its reputation

In my opinion, I do not think that there is way to minimize the influence social media has on healthcare because as the amount of people using online health websites or apps so does their reputation making more people use them and trust them with their diagnosis.

However, some of these online pharmacies do not even ask for a doctor’s prescription in order to purchase a medication which sound sound sketchy right away.

Many people cannot afford to pay for insurance and therefore, have a hard time paying the full price for medication.

What this shows

“The service users will be able to update their own health record with information regarding their current physical state (e.g. weight), diseases suffered from and relevant treatments (medication, operations, etc.), allergies and health-affecting habits (e.g. smoking or physical exercise). In addition, patients suffering from chronic diseases (e.g. diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, hypertension, etc.) will be able to store important indicators/parameters (i.e. blood glucose level, blood pressure, etc.) related with the state of their disease. Furthermore, the EHR may also contain results of diagnostic examinations in digital format, including diagnostic images such as CT, MRI, X-ray and others. To this end, any hospital or other diagnostic center willing to provide this additional service to its patients should have an appropriate broadband access to the Internet in order to be able to upload the information to a patient’s EHR. Finally, clinicians will be able to record a diagnosis at the patient’s request.”

Ever stop and think why you get email about something you searched up from random sources? That is because those sources got your information from the websites that you provided it with

More than one-third of U.S. adults use Internet to diagnose medical condition, author Michelle Castillo states “However, less than half — 41 percent — said that a doctor confirmed the diagnosis they made from online research. Thirty-five percent said they did not seek a professional opinion, and 18 percent said the medical professional or clinician did not agree with what they thought or had a different opinion about their condition.”

Ever stop to think why random health websites send you emails even though you never went on them? That is because they got your information from that one website that you gave your email to.

This shows that WebMD has no concern for a person’s health rather about what their bank account looks like at the end of the day.

What this shows is how all these health websites, such as WebMD, are being paid off to give false information to clueless people because major drug companies paid them to do so.

“If you didn’t already know this, WebMD is the second most visited health web site on the entire web. The general belief is that it’s a first-rate, trustworthy source of “independent and objective” information about health.”

who do not wish to visit a doctor’s office

As of 2018, there are approximately 330 million Reddit users and as the days go by, the amount of users also go up. This website is divided into different categories which include: reviews on items, medical questions, etc.

Most of the time, these people will find answers to their questions as people that went through the same situation will talk about it there or maybe even answers from actual medical practitioner.

Through the use of online platforms, many people use websites such as Reddit and WebMD to find out what their symptoms could mean rather than going to an actual doctor

What effect has the internet had on healthcare?

As the internet keeps having an influence on some people’s lives, they follow what they are being told as “good” or “bad” for them by other people.

due to the internet

All a person wants to do is to keep their body healthy and be vaccinated to be protected from diseases.

Many people

Doctors recommend for people to not research their symptoms/illness online, as this could yield results that are way too drastic for what it really is. Doctors know that people will assume whatever they find online is correct which causes more stress over nothing. If this trend of using the internet to diagnose your illness continues, then the actual medical offices could get put out of business.

people believe the Internet could be used as a substitute

More people search for health online

“IN ALL, 80 percent of Internet users, or about 93 million Americans, have searched for a health-related topic online, according to a study released Wednesday by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. That’s up from 62 percent of Internet users who said they went online to research health topics in 2001, the Washington research firm found.”

which may be due to photoshopped images

This hashtag sparked an international movement campaigning against violence and systematic racism towards African Americans. The use of hashtags could highlight the positive effects of social media since it is an efficient way to bring people together. With this being said, virality makes it possible for people across the world to feel connected to each other and lift one another. It would also be possible for anyone who is facing a mental health issue to gain support and give support. A simple hashtag being shared to raise awareness on how to handle mental health, or raising awareness on mental health, could be beneficial to one’s life.

racial themed memes

As founded in the study done by Amanda Williams, “the cumulative experience of racial microaggressions is related to reduced positive effect and increased depressive and somatic symptoms.”

While it is true that social media increases the likelihood of cyberbullying, others could argue that social media could decrease the likelihood of cyberbullying by spreading awareness on the issue and influence users to take preventative actions.  

However, the defiance of society’s beauty standards through social media could potentially be destructive for users since they may experience cyberbullying.

these photoshopped images

According to O’ Reilly’s study the emotional consequences reported by the participants indirectly blamed social media for lowering self esteem because of photoshopped images.

The concerns of social media use in relation to low self esteem are among the fact that adolescents who have low self-esteem indirectly blame social media due to the unrealistic and over exaggerated content.

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People use mainstream content as “inspiration” to become popular, and end up becoming just like everyone else.

In addition to this, the usage of social media distracts users from their creative process. Instead of focusing their time on their own production and efforts, users will adhere to the accounts of others which decreases productivity and innovation. According to Statista, in 2018, users spent at least 95 minutes on Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram alone. Now just imagine if they included all the social platforms. The usage of social media not only entails uncreativity but also depreciates one’s emotional wellbeing.

Social media is meant to be used for “self-expression, communication, and peer feedback” (Argo and Lowery).

likely to face has costly effects

How is it that social media, a platform created to bring people together, has been creating a divide between users who ‘are’ and users who ‘want to be.’

These issues could range from lowered self-esteem, insecurity, and even depression.

This “inspiration”

One result being that people who want to be viral, or try to be viral, are now at a higher risk of facing mental wellbeing issues

viral culture- the need or desire for one to feel or become popular.

With my research I have found how social platforms are really affecting us. Even though some of them have been positive, a vast number of them have been negative. With my research I can bring in useful knowledge of statistics and how to depict what is going on in society today. Some of the research includes the amount of time spent online and how many celebrities are signing off and how different studies prove the negative effects of social media on our daily lives. My research also shows how outside problems that are being introduced through social media are affecting the mental health of people around the world.

People have witnessed how social media has changed lives. From being able to have business meetings no matter where you are in this world, or to having connections with people thousands of miles away, or being able to discuss issues with privacy, or being able to follow the news around the world. People have seen how social platforms have motivated people and grown businesses and even allowed for online education and learning tools for anything you can possibly think of. At the end of the day many rather sit in a class room and watch a YouTube video or scroll on Facebook than pay attention. Many can’t focus on doing homework or studying for an exam without checking their social media accounts. Many will compare themselves to others and believe that they are not worth anything. Many are looking at posts that make them upset, that make them insecure, and lose their attention spans. Many are addicted to something so fake and just crazy to follow. Many feel fake vibrations in their pockets when there isn’t one. Many are addicted to something that was created to make our lives easier and more entertaining, a way to make talking to someone one hundred times easier. But instead it made life for some awful. No matter what it is very hard to argue the fact the social platforms have made life much more productive and much simpler, and as social media grows it will benefit us even more. But it also has its vast amounts of negatives which cannot be overseen. Studies and statistic have proven that social media is taking a toll on our lives but they have also proven that with moderation we can still use all of our accounts but be more productive, have better attention spans, and have less issues with mental health. To every person their own and some may even say that social media has helped them, but it is clear that for many the correlation between social media usage and mental health issues is a vast issue and needs to fixed.

Social platforms have taken over society today. Everything is electronic, everything is being shared and posted. Everybody knows what is going on in a different part of the country. But people don’t know how their best friend of ten years is doing or feeling. People dont know how to not write without shorting words. People are going online to solve problems and sometimes it really helps us, but sometimes it just makes everything worse.

Many live for the moment to open their phone and see something new, to see what was just released by Supreme or Louis Vuitton, to see what some rich celebrity is doing on their thirteenth vacation this year. Many are addicted to this, and can’t live without this. Many can’t focus in class, and believe that they are not worth enough because someone else is, many see themselves as being poor or ugly or fat because other people aren’t, many rather stay at home and be to themselves behind a screen instead of seeing their friends because they don’t know how to fit in anymore.

Even though many people leave their phones, or turn off their notifications, or take a break from social media, they still have that constant feeling of not having enough information about what is going in the society, or not keeping up with the social trends.