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@CUComm3200 I find PewDiePie's success as a social media entertainer interesting as his vulgar humor goes against the "qualified self" image imposed on average YouTube content creators, yet he still achieves fame in spite of the numerous controversies he is involved with.

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@CUComm3200 I find the dark web fascinating because it serves as a place free from Internet surveillance and gives users true anonymity, but also comes with the price of possibly encountering illegal activities and highly unsavory groups.

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@CUComm3200 Turkle's opinion article on the decrease in human conversation feels like a modern day moral panic as it gives off the vibe that human relationships will be destroyed by modern technology and people will only feel an emotional connection towards their devices.

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@CUComm3200 Social steganography appears to be a unique way for teens to hide private messages on public platforms, but making the hidden message too subtle can result in misinterpretations such as how Carmen's mom thought she was suicidal after she posted troubling song lyrics.

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@CUComm3200 A very troublesome issue that Turow mentions in his interview is how privacy policies are misleadingly named as such to trick consumers into thinking their data is safe while companies use it for whatever they want.

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@CUComm3200 It appears that surveillance in the form of social media can be controlled by active users with regards to giving them the choice of what information they want to voluntarily post and who is permitted to see such information that they provide.

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@CUComm3200 Gladwell points out that the high-risk activism of the Civil Rights Activism were able to be carried out since the participants were strongly connected to each other in person, but Twitter activism is less committed to such risk as ties between users tend to be weak.

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@CUComm3200 With the power of social media to help individuals connect to real-world groups, could this be a potential factor in nullifying the "safe harbor" claim when used to prevent social media platforms from falling under governmental control?

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@CUComm3200 The Wooley and Howard paper on computational propaganda is another example of how algorithms can give problematic results to users (e.g. offensive search suggestions, disturbing YouTube videos for kids, poorly placed advertisements based on word relevance, etc.)

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@CUComm3200 Dr. Hardy notes that framing people of certain political ideologies as "anti-science" would provoke them to further distrust actual science; he implies that avoiding aggressive delivery of info will help people support scientific discoveries that they disagree with.

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@CUComm3200 The Atlantic article implies that non-white Twitter users have to use non-white emoji colors to represent themselves, but it fails to discuss the possibility of those who like using the default yellow color or who prefer to not identify themselves by skin color.

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@CUComm3200 In the Racked article about the "quiet racism" of Instagram filters, it appears that the filters lighten all skin colors by default based on the study conducted and that it is actually social implications of race which causes people to react negatively to the effects.

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@CUComm3200 While being selective in audience members with regards to disclosing sexuality is a good strategy against context collapse, there remains the possibility that a member could accidentally or purposefully send one's details to others whom they wish to not disclose to.

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@CUComm3200 The Herring & Kapidzic study reveals a concerning tendency for teenagers on social media to present themselves in sexual or inappropriate manners (such as consuming alcohol or using profanity) without regards to their professional image or viewership privacy.

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@CUComm3200 The biggest concern in social media content regulation to me is that the regulators would not act fairly in regards to offending content that aligns with their personal biases (e.g. removing posts that lean a political viewpoint they do not agree with).

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@CUComm3200 What's troublesome about using algorithms to rationalize and predict public content, as detailed in the Napoli paper, is that it assumes everyone around the world has and consumes the same type of content without any variety.

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@CUComm3200 It is amusing that musicians are using social media now to distribute their music and attract new fans especially when the music industry tried to crack down on music piracy in the past (e.g. Napster).

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YouTube tends to have a wide range of trends that users follow and get views over (e.g. vlogs, animal videos, political news, etc.)

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The Salon article assumes that current trends in pop culture always tend to result in a "monoculture" where they each share a common theme or tone. While this may appear true for old media such as movies or music, I do not believe that this could apply to Internet media (e.g. YT)

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@CUComm3200 The Atlantic article about how freelance workers are working online for very low amounts reminds me of this recent story about a Buzzfeed user who gave the site lots of traffic by posting almost 700 quizzes, but was not paid for her work: https://t.co/yfcuVrHxlu