Each should reference at least two sources and should average around 200 words.
PROMPT: Put the podcast episodes in conversation with one another. How do they each diagnose contemporary issues in digital technology? How do these relate to your previous concerns or understandings of social media?
Listen/read: Roose, K. (2020). One: Wonderland. Retrieved January 31, 2021, from https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/podcasts/rabbit-hole-internet-youtube-virus.html (Links to an external site.)
Listen up to about minute 38:00: Data flows: Gender, colonization and the limits of surveillance capitalism | The Anti-Dystopians. (2020). Retrieved May 26, 2021, from https://shows.acast.com/the-anti-dystopians/episodes/data-flows-gender-colonization-and-the-limits-of-surveillanc (Links to an external site.)
Noble, S. U. (2018). Introduction: The power of algorithms. In Algorithms of oppression: How search engines reinforce racism (pp. 115). New York University Press.
PROMPT: Brainstorm a topic and a research question you would like to explore in class. {project proposal}
(Topic: Threats to Privacy on Social Media – Data Mining, Phishing Attempts, Malware Sharing, Botnet Attacks, TickTok/China etc.)
1. Your Question What is the importance of the topic?
a. Wider context of the topic
The affordances of vaccines. Social Media and the feelings behind it. Medical controversies and social media.
b. Narrowed context of the question
Specifically the negative noise on social media around why vaccines could be harmful to young children.
2. Argument/Aim What is the main argument/aim of your paper?
Nothing concrete at the moment, but seeking to research medical misinformation on the internet. Not doing credible research on the evidence you base your beliefs on.
3. Methodology/Approach What will your approach to this question be? (what theoretical concepts and materials will you use?)
Nothing yet beyond a general research process.
4. Results/Findings What do you think you will find?
Uncertain at this point in time.
5. Conclusion How does this work add to the body of knowledge on the subject matter?
This will probably bring to light how nasty the Internet can be. Likely validate our worst fears.
Listen/ Centre for the History of the Emotions (Links to an external site.)
The Sound of Anger: 3. What is it good for?
https://soundcloud.com/user-357683788/the-sound-of-anger-3-what-is-it-good-for-1 (Links to an external site.)
Gibson, James 1977. The Theory of Affordances. In Robert Shaw and John Bansford (Eds.), Perceiving, Acting, and Knowing. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. download
(SKIM this one) Plantin, J.-C., Lagoze, C., Edwards, P. N., & Sandvig, C. (2018). Infrastructure studies meet platform studies in the age of Google and Facebook. New Media & Society, 20(1), 293310. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816661553
PROMPT: Listen and watch the clips of Rachel Lindsay discussing the controversy on ABC show The Bachelor around the franchises first black Bachelor and a contestant who was found to have attended Antebellum parties. What elements shape the emotional tenor of the discussions and how are they different? What kind of labor is involved in these media moments? Link this to one or more of the readings.
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9hmY1gSAuRk&ab_channel=extratv (Links to an external site.)
Listen/watch (up to about 40 minutes) (Links to an external site.): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/rachel-sounds-off-on-chris-harrisons-problematic-extra/id1515152489?i=1000508690832 (Links to an external site.)
Lopez, L. K. (2014). Blogging while angry: The sustainability of emotional labor in the Asian American blogosphere. Media, Culture & Society, 36 download(4), 421436 download. https://doi.org/10.1177/0163443714523808 (Links to an external site.)
Nakamura, L. (2015). The unwanted labour of social media: Women of colour call out culture as venture community management. New Formations, 86(86), 106-112.
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