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  Area 1: In the article “Social Media Surveillance and Law Enforcement“    by Alexandra Matescu, Douglas Brunton, Alex Rosenblat, Desmond Patton, Zachary Gold, and Boyd states law enforcement use social media as a tool to catch criminals.    There is a concern that social profiling, stereotyping, and stigmas may create issues and injustice. And social media changing the way police officers gather evidence against said criminals without warrants. There are products that also help spy on public places in order to help with surveillance. They mention that it is difficult to regulate social media and what can be used as evidence and what is a violation of privacy. Since the internet is very much a new entity of data and information is most of the time permanent. However, it also makes things easier for people to catfish or create fake accounts. Which makes it more difficult to find the culprit behind the crimes or posting evidence that is used in investigations. Th...

  Area1: In the book,  Weapons Of Math Destruction , Chapter 8: “Collateral Damage: Landing Credit” by Cathy o’ Neil mentions unfair bias use of data.    Using Fico scores to determine who is likely to be more at risk or less of risk default their loans.    This starts accumulating other data score “e-score” that is unfair, unsupervised and discredited. Credit Card companies know you down to the last cent of your spending, web surfing, and location. Everything means something in terms of how wealthy is the person. For those who live in not so well area that is already a strike against them. They receive a low credit score without considering that they pay their bills on time and are not in debt. These sharks keep tabs on our everyday life without our control.  Area2: In 2016 the book stated 40 states use credit checks for hiring employees and currently 10 that ban credit information (shrm .or). And guess which state is one of those ten. Give you a...

  The concepts that I decided to use is net neutrality, social activism, and disability and accessibility. The connection between social activism and net neutrality is one needs the internet to pass its message worldwide and at the same time net neutrality can slow down the message or block the message due to bias. Without the interweb to help the message is lost to an information centering withholding it prisoner. And then falls the accessibility to those who use the internet or other media to understand the world around them. Some of the younger generations rely on the internet for important information such as protests and for those who rely on other media such as television it feels the same squeeze of un-airing, blocking, covering the protests. The images reflect that message there are thin lines connecting the BLM protest to the internet and the young generation. And two ends are about to be cut due to large corporations slowing or not allowing information. The young people u...

 Area 1: In the book, Networking Peripheries:Technological Futures and the Myth of Digital Universalism, chapter    “ Enterprise Village” mentions globalization of a small village in Peru and connecting it into the internet realm. Mentions IP (intellectual property rights) particularly Chulucans origin of ceramics. Wanting to put Peru art in the map they seek out mass production. However, trying to identify one whole concrete piece of art that consumers can identify as Peru is easier said then done. Other villages within Peru whom feel that chulucans are stealing their characteristics and traditions infused within these ceramics. That they are Losing their identity to the masses. Making a product that selfs identifies as chulucan and not from any other village of Peru. They are “generating interest” among tourists world wide traveling to visit Peru and its culture. And take a piece of culture with them and spread the word that Peru is cultured place.  Area 2:  I...

  Area 1: In the article “digital protest, hashtag ethnography, and the racial politics of social media in the United States” by Yarimar Bonilla and Jonathan Rosa analyzes the impact of the internet protests and hashtags. And further discussions on how powerful social platforms are to demonstrators and the downfalls of using online protests. They mention an individual reporting they saw someone gun downed. I can’t help but think of George Fylod and the live footage aired. And the viral spread of man dying witnessed in real life and virtual. History repeats itself.  Area 2: Protesting changed from demonstrations dropping picket signs to hashtags at end of    a social post. A different way to reach people. It spreads information faster and world wide vs. some protests that may only make it to the local news. However, there is downfall to fast track information people lose the awareness along the way because they see    as trendy hashtag that everyone is doing...