1. Author: Dustin Kidd Chapter 9: Conclusion A Social Media Revolution?
Social Media Freaks
Author: Dustin Kidd
Chapter 9: Conclusion
A Social Media Revolution?
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-Dustin
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Conclusions
Use this slide to discuss students’ conclusions about the value, power, and effectiveness of social media.
Discuss:
What are the on-going problems with social media? What can we do about them?
Should social media companies take steps to reduce anonymity in social media? If they do, will that impact free speech?
How can control of social media be wrested from corporations and given to users? Will it work?
What would you do to improve social media? Assume the technology is there to make it happen? What impact do you think it will have?
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The Social Network
The image links to a clip from the film the Social Network. Watch with closed captions. The clip is two minutes and 37 seconds (2:37). I chose this clip because it illustrates the idea that the battle for control of social media is still a battle between wealthy white men. Notice the absence of people of color from the conversation. Women appear in the film as lawyers and love interests.
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Troll Booth
These images offer an overview of Milo Yiannopoulos’s attack on Leslie Jones. The full story can be found at:
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Milo Responds
In this clip, which does not have closed captions, Milo defends the practice of trolling. The clip is seven minutes and 3 seconds long (7:03).
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6. The Revolution Will Not Be…
This is a fan video for the Gil Scott-Heron track The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. It does not have closed captions and is two minutes and 37 seconds long (2:37). Watch the video and discuss both the message of the track and its applicability to social media.
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The Master’s Tools
Audre Lorde
“Those of us who stand outside the circle of this society's definition of acceptable women; those of us who have been forged in the crucibles of difference—those of us who are poor, who are lesbians, who are Black, who are older—know that survival is not an academic skill. It is learning how to take our differences and make them strengths. For the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master's house as their only source of support.” (Lorde 1984, 112)
Read and discuss the quote. Do students agree? What does this mean about social media as a tool of social change?
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Final Thought
“The matrix of domination is the house that corporations live in. They inherited this house, as they gained their corporate personhood, from the paragons of privilege who built it and them. Social media is a powerful new resource and a tremendous new well of artistic possibility, but a corporate-controlled social media industry run by a cabal of the most privileged people in the world will never dismantle the matrix of domination. Transformative change demands a transformation in both how we make the tools we need and who gets to make them. To paraphrase Marx: Coders of the world, unite!”
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