Will Thomas

your cool but im probably cooler 😎

[Will Thomas @JuneButterfly5]

@L260Yao I think it really shows how insensitive the internet and society in general can be. I’m addition, I think it shows how privilege able body people are to even create those memes and videos about a group of oppressive people.

[Will Thomas @JuneButterfly5]

#co575 @EmergingSocial1 this week really showed me how able-bodied social media is. Many disabilities that people have are mock and laughed upon I’m social media. “That’s So Takei” is a perfect example as his privilege didn’t even allow him to understand where he was wrong.

[Will Thomas @JuneButterfly5]

@Yaraa128 @EmergingSocial1 I 100% agree! I think this a perfect example of technology going too far. And the fact that technology is more accessible than ever, almost anyone can do it if they took enough time to learn. This also shows how technology is used more for desires over helping people

[Will Thomas @JuneButterfly5]

As times goes on, technology will only get better. Personally, I think we already pretty advanced in technology but I’m curious to see when will humans realized that technology can be taking too far especially when it comes to AI.

[Will Thomas @JuneButterfly5]

#co575 @EmergingSocial1 I leaned a lot in this week readings. I knew deepfakes exist as I see people impersonating Kylie Jenner, Chris Patt, and many more celebrities on Tiktok by using deepfakes. (THREAD)

[Will Thomas @JuneButterfly5]

I could also see this being use by having celebrities endorse politics or ideas that don’t agree with or follow. I think people also need to take in account how people pedophiles can use deepfake in order or fufill their twisted fantasies.

[Will Thomas @JuneButterfly5]

@_Delmz @EmergingSocial1 Omg I loved this analogy! And with the rebrand of MySpace trying to comeback it shows somewhat gentrification how they try rebrand MySpace more sleek when it once considered ghetto like you mentioned.

[Will Thomas @JuneButterfly5]

Essentially they use faceless profiles, aave, and black emojis to insinuate that their black. I’ve seen non-black profiles fake themselves into black conversations and try to use the “Im black and I agree” statement in order to denounce real black people ideas and beliefs.

[Will Thomas @JuneButterfly5]

@EmergingSocial1 #co575 What I learned in this weeks reading is Black People relationship with social media and activism both online and offline helped with the succession of the Black Lives Matter movement. In addition, the organization of founder Alicia Garza help BLM become

[Will Thomas @JuneButterfly5]

If all lives matter then technically black lives do matter. In addition the people believe ALM purposely ignores why BLM was even created. Because ALM didn’t work as well, some white folks have turned to faking being black in order to be part of black conversation on the internet

[Will Thomas @JuneButterfly5]

@thomasqphung I most defiantly agree Occupy did great when it comes to social media awareness. I think because so many things didn’t happen the way they envisioned, they were force to focus on that rather than centralizing their points.

[Will Thomas @JuneButterfly5]

With the Slogan “We are the 99” occupy movement participants used social media not only to get their message across, but they use social media to tell stories about economic equality and how it affects everyday citizens

[Will Thomas @JuneButterfly5]

@EmergingSocial1 #co575 what I learned in todays reading is what the Occupy Wall Street movement was how media played a big part into its success. The blog Adbusters played a big part into spreading information about the movement through media images and articles.

[Will Thomas @JuneButterfly5]

This lead to other people who are in the movement to also use media to get their pint across like using hashtags and memes. This is very powerful because now the whole world knows about this movement not just folks in NYC

[Will Thomas @JuneButterfly5]

@RAxtheTA @EmergingSocial1 Omg I would hate to pay for google but at same time I hate companies that use our data. It’s seems like a lose, lose battle because Googles and any tech company end goal is capitalizing one way or another.

[Will Thomas @JuneButterfly5]

@EmergingSocial1 #co575 This weeks reading taught how powerful tech companies specifically google can be when it comes to influence. With google being kn the biggest search engines, they have the power to control what we want to see or not see 1/2

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@erincammiso @EmergingSocial1 I most def agree. With amount of money and power they have the least can do is give their workers fair wages and opportunities which goes to show you how much these companies are against working class people than supporting them

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Which make me pose the question of whether the internet is as free as we think it is