When I went to the website, it talks about the definition of Capitalism which is by the dictionary " an economic system characterized by private or corporate ownership of capital goods, by investments that are determined by private decision, and by prices, production, and the distribution of goods that are determined mainly by competition in a free market" but I believe by each online dictionary the definition may change but the definition is more vague in a sense but concise and clear and leaves for many examples and how profit works for companies.

The idea of a white savior I think it adds onto the social construct of possible white people have an upper hand. By having a white savior really sets the idea of being woke in reverse. There shouldn't be a "white savior" idea at all because it sets racial stigmatism up again. I think that if it was worded as a black savior there would have been more controversy and people would not believe that black savior can be a thing.

This article talks about the prank that Jimmy Kimmel does with the prank of where parents eat all the candy (the day after the Halloween) and usually the kids end up crying and getting upset (while the parent records the reaction). the article here talks about children's humor increases as they get older and so they cannot comprehend such a joke at such a young age. The parents and others exaggerate the effects of this prank saying it brings the child trauma but it entirely doesnt; however, this prank shouuld not be continued.

I do think cancel culture has slightly gotten out of hand though. People sometimes overreact and don't think to take in what the circumstances were, where that person is from, the person's culture and background, how old the person may be and many more situations and just automatically cancel, I believe especially in America if something doesn't fix the norm of American standards people are just quick to cancel even without knowing anything else.

This article talks about what doxxing is (from Wikipedia) and how people actually doxxing has not just started now but leads all the way back to the 13 colonies in the 1700s. People who did not comply with boycotts on British goods got their names and information exposed on the newspaper. The article goes in further to explain the common techniques of doxxing (such as actual harassment in person) and the article provides many examples not just from America but from different countries like South Korea's legal actions.

As technology becomes more advanced, bullying online becomes more easy I remember back in middle school there was a huge issue where a bunch of girls got called into the principal's office for bullying issues on Instagram. I also know as people's data gets leaked online and they don't use secure methods it gets very easy to get hacked which I feel like is a common situation that happens these days.

This source from wikipedia gives us a history on actual historical events of crowdsourcing and this shows us that the idea of crowdsourcing existed before the internet existed which is interesting as one of the earliest examples is from 618-907. The article continues to give us examples of crowdsourcing in different settings.

This is interesting to see that a majority of people are lurkers because as someone you uses social media it seems like there are many people who contribute but this actually shocks me because I guess you have to look at it in the scale of numbers if there are 100 million users of an app even 10% of that is 10 million which is many users and thats why people may think that there are a lot of engagers when in fact a good chunk of us are just lurkers.

This article on Wikipedia outlines what admins can do. Admins can delete pages with less than 5000 revisions and block and unblock user accounts. Administrators can be anyone but they are expected to have trust and confidence of the community. The article continues to talk about the roles of Administrators and the processes they go through.

Free speech is commonly used on the internet and people post misinformation on their stories or new articles on their stories on platforms like instagram and I'm glad that instagram does say that certain information may be misleading, triggering etc to alert the users on what they might see so they are prepared.

This study was done at the University of Washington and found out that people when they use social media that the they go in a dissociative state which is what happens when people read books that they fall deep into. The idea about this is that social media users do not even understand what is happening around them. The researchers at UW developed an app like twitter called Chirp and had the app be able to remind the users with a dialog box every 15 minutes and like messages such as "you're all caught up" when the user saw all the new material.

People these days especially Gen Z are those who doomscroll and I think that it is something we should be worried about because i think it allows for people to be disconnected from the real world but yet connected as they have connection through the internet and so they start falling into unhealthy habits such as being co-dependent on the internet and possibly as doomscrolling happens, gain shorter attention span because you can just scroll by anything that you don't want to see (whether it is depressing or not) or continue to see it.

This book called "The Selfish Gene" written by Richard Dawkins is building upon the principal theory of Adaptation and Natural Selection. Dawkin uses the term of "Selfish Gene" as a way to express the gene centered view of evolution. The idea is evolution in general works not at individuals but at genes, This book also brought in the term of meme.

I feel that as if cultural appropriation is talked more in America than in any other country, as someone who has Korean relatives and visits the country I never really hear anything about cultural appropriation, I believe because America is such a diverse and culturally mixed country that these terms come up.

This article talks about how Facebook has been found using its two-factor to target users with specific adds and the default setting in Facebook lets people with or without accounts look up a user which caused concerns to come up as someone posted about it on twitter (the post blew up). Facebook then admitted by having the phone number search option a lot of users had their information scraped. However, Facebook still has not gotten rid of the phone number by default (even though they have tweaked the settings a little) . Due to this a lot of users are complaining about privacy issues, having the Irish data protection agency inquire the company regarding these issues.

It's interesting to see that the algorithm can take in and remember what you liked, what you have seen, what you have interacted with, what posts you commented on, etc to be able to recommend certain pictures, posts, videos, and every time you change your search history the algorithm shifts once again and then changes it every single time which is fascinating, I've seen this happen on my own algorithm when I look up baking recipes and then look up political updates and my whole algorith shifts all the time.

This short article from wiki talks about how disabilities are considered the divine punishment of being physically or biologically different and how the social belief of disability comes from society's beliefs about a specific community and how ideas about this whole society belief comes from that some people are under deserving.

After reading this, I wonder how people will be viewing disabilities to be with someone with glasses in the future because currently people I believe view disabilities to be the visible disabilities always and not the invisible ones but even myself never really considered someone with glasses to be someone with disabilities and when applying to jobs its not a selection you choose and so I wonder if society is shifting?

This article states how the bill of rights does not exactly say anything about privacy but there is privacy rights that have been determined through laws and cases over the years. Finding out Roe v Wade had to do with privacy as well is interesting and public healthcare sector being involved as well.

Keeping information private is vital but it is specifically interesting to see that having our location be private be interesting. I mention this as many of the people I know around me post where they are and tag their locations and have their social media accounts open to the public rather than having it private and closed only to their friends. People I believe do not realize how much they are exposing themselves by constantly posting their current or past locations on the internet which can later have issues be exposed (if they are like public figures) and have people attack them.

This article talks about how Facebook collects data on both non-users and users of facebook. The app itself collects data on non-users when people who actually share posts to non-users who then view the post (browsing history). It is insane that there is no way to opt out not sharing your data with facebook and the app keeps data from its users for 90 days and non-users for 10 days. This I believe is an invasion of privacy as some people especially non-users do not even know that their information is being taken by an app.

Often people talk about datasets for social media apps and other issues (social, environmental, political..). I wonder after reading this if there are situations in not just like this tiktok video if there are more situations than we can think that Datasets get poisoned? And how come it isn't something we address sometimes when asking about the flaws of data collection when we do analysis for our data sets?

This link leads to a wiki page which goes into depth about what a concern troll is. A concern troll according to wiki is "Someone who posts to an internet forum or newsgroup, claiming to share its goals while deliberately working against those goals, typically, by claiming "concern" about group plans to engage in productive activity, urging members instead to attempt some activity that would damage the group's credibility, or alternatively to give up on group projects entirely." Looking at this and the examples given the idea of a concern troll is more about purposely acting deceptively and acting like they support a cause or idea a group supports when in actuality they are completely against all of it.

It is interesting to see even for little social groups such as a group of friends, those groups need to have similar habits and patterns for it to be sustainable and be able to last for a long time. I believe by only have some commonality people will be able to relate together and be able to communicate as their ideologies are similar and why people with similar political views and interests usually end up sticking together and I also realize those habits have to not possibly just be surface level but deeper.

This article is breaking down after analyzing trumps tweets that he tweets from an android and an iPhone on the same device. The non-hyperbolic is from iPhone (staff) and hyperbolic is from Android (trump himself). The article further breaks down the code that comes with it

Parasocial relationships with celebrities and fans are common these days with boy bands, female singer, models etc but it is interesting to see that Fred Rogers was trying to convey his boundaries and I believe that by saying "television visits" it is important to set that boundary or else fans themselves cross the boundary. We can see it with K-pop bands and like people such as One direction back in the day when people claimed to be their girlfriends and would die if they actually got in a relationship. I believe to maintain a healthy balance creating said structure and guidline is important

This video here is recreating the "beef" that was happening between Adams and Jefferson through a narrator who is seen to be drinking. The recreation is a funny twist and take with exaggeration with curse words involved to evoke laughter from the viewers of the video but the basis of the video is to show the different views of Jefferson and Adams and how they clashed and when they were both running for presidency how rumors spread about each other and how once best friends became "enemies" but later very good friends again. This funny interpretation allows for viewers to easily digest American history in a comical matter and may be of purpose to have viewers possibly look more into history on their own.

Books these days go viral on the internet where they are mass printed and authors now say "million book seller" I wonder for an author to have gone viral how many books sold was considered a accomplishment? Or as time has gone has that idea changed as well?

In this NPR transcript we learn that basically Elon Musk has broken a contract with twitter as he "secretly stopped taking action to buy twitter" this idea shows which the two people in this transcript mention of changing mind when he feels and trashing the company, it is interesting that even billionaires think that their wish-washy thinking may not harm others or the reputation of others when it actually does.

I find it interesting that data collection strategies may not be up to date? This is from 2021 which is from when we were in the era of when the gender topic was not uncommon and so it is interesting to see data yet not up to date with the common trends and topic (is it because our society and beliefs change so quickly?) Even in 2025 sometimes when I fill out applications and fill out the gender portion there sometimes is female, male, other and so it is interesting to see this still happen in 2025.

I believe that collecting data can be normal as many companies want to gather data and see how the customers act (such as buying a specific product more than the other) or (leaning towards one platform over) as data is used everywhere but I believe that data sometimes can be collected without a user knowing (as they may accept terms on habit or without reading full disclosure) and I believe that this is when this can violate privacy when users knowingly share their location with a site and don't realize they are being tracked and so I believe that even by gathering data from social media companies should be more transparent about it.

I may actually not be up to date with new terms but until this I never really heard the term of click farm and so to see what a click farm is, which is a "shadowy operations that use large numbers of electronic devices to boost engagement online and manipulate algorithms" I realized why are physical humans doing this labor and isn't this almost unethical to have them be doing this all day? Do these people who click get proper treatment at all or paid? With technology so advanced in even not first world countries I wonder why people are still subjected to click farms as I assume there may be other farms or other operations like this? Is it due to labor fee?

This phrase is commonly heard in our everyday lives! How the internet fabricates how people lives their lives and so it still surprises me that people get surprised when their "favorite" celeb is different from what they show on the internet. I believe the internet has caused us to have a cover to show what is real and what is fake, not with just celebrities but with normal people as well.

John Hartley states that all media is social and so all of society is mediated essentially; however, I believe that there is a difference in the media that is even mentioned here as books and news (which is not mentioned here) is found commonly to educate those in our society (and paintings can go here as well if we look back in history and this includes speeches too) however dances, movie, songs, trends that all fall in media are to entertain individuals, I believe that media itself is too broad of a term and should be split into smaller subsections as I believe that with newer generations and tech coming out the "media" people commonly refer to are not books but more technology based