UNCC_MediaTechSoc

Students and instructor of UNCC's class Media, Tech & Society (COMM3052) share thoughts & news about media, technocultural issues.

[Ismail @Oba_Olaoluwa]

"Our world is crisscrossed with informational sentinels like the system that targeted my family for https://t.co/EWgSCYCA7i security guards collect information about us, make inferences about our behavior, and control access to resources." (Eubanks, 2016) @UNCC_MTS

[Jack Olds @JackOlds4]

“Forty years ago,nearly all of the major decisions that shape our lives were made by human beings.” “Today, we have ceded much of that decision making power to sophisticated machines.” (Eubanks) @UNCC_MTS

[Alessia Lyles @alylesuncc]

@UNCC_MTS “Automated decision-making shatters the social safety net, criminalizes the poor, intensifies discrimination, and compromises our deepest national values.” (Eubanks, 2018)

[Jack Olds @JackOlds4]

Facebook’s own research found that 13% of teen girls say that Instagram made their thoughts of suicide worse (C-SPAN) @UNCC_MTS

[Alessia Lyles @alylesuncc]

@UNCC_MTS "What is a place if those who are physically present have their attention on the absent?"(Turkle, 2010)

[gabie @gabienicolee]

@UNCC_MTS "These days, being connected depends not on our distance from each other but
from available communications technology. Most of the time, we carry that technology with us." (Turkle, 2010, p. 155)

[Jack Olds @JackOlds4]

“When part of your life is lived in virtual places, it can be second life, a computer game, a social networking site- a vexed relationship develops between what is true and what is “true here” in simulation” (Turkle 2010) @UNCC_MTS

[Ismail @Oba_Olaoluwa]

@UNCC_MTS training and conditioning a whole new generation of people that when we are uncomfortable or lonely or uncertain or afraid we have a digital pacifier for ourselves that is kind of atrophying our own ability to deal with that.”

[Jack Olds @JackOlds4]

“It’s the gradual, slight, imperceptible change in your own behavior and perception that is the product.” @UNCC_MTS

[Alessia Lyles @alylesuncc]

@UNCC_MTS “A person’s reputation whether accurate, manufactured, or some combination of the two can have an impact on job prospects and the ability to raise capital for startups. And people’s social status affects their marriage prospects and partners.” (Pfeffer, 2015)

[Jack Olds @JackOlds4]

@UNCC_MTS Ratings encourage the wrong behavior. 16% of the restaurant reviews on yelp were fraudulent. (Pfeffer)

[Isabelle @IsabelleFormi]

@UNCC_MTS “A person’s reputation—whether accurate, manufactured, or somecombination of the two—can have an
impact onjobprospects and theability to raise capital for startups.” (Pfeffer, 2015, pg. 1)

[Sof @sofiaaescobar1]

@UNCC_MTS “The potent influence of consumer ratings raises the question: how accurate are these ratings that so powerfully affect judgment and decision-making?” (Pfeffer, 2015)

[Ismail @Oba_Olaoluwa]

"Memory, like identity, is a polysemic term expressed as a series of dualities. Both publicly and privately
constructed, it comprises the particular and the universal, the natural faculty and the artificial mnemonic,
the internal and the external." (Schrag, 2014) @UNCC_MTS

[Jack Olds @JackOlds4]

“Reminders, so nothing slips your mind.” (Apple) @UNCC_MTS