Social Media I (Ann and Cinzia)

For our podcast this week, Cinzia and Ann discuss both readings, the video and the Black Mirror Netflix episode. The readings they focus on were danah boyd’s "Identity: Why do teens seem strange online?", from her book "It's complicated," which talks about the trials and tribulations of today’s teens’ social life and interactions online, and their identity work in an online environment. They also talk about Jon Ronson’s “God that was awesome,” which highlighted the public shaming which occurs on social media in channels such as Twitter and the comparisons to real life shaming. They also discuss the France 24 video "China introduces ‘social credit score’ for citizens," which highlighted the social credit experiment happening today in China and the public shaming it employs to manipulate people’s behavior. And they speak briefly about the Black Mirror episode, Nosedive, whose plot concentrates on a social rating system in society in which people rate each other on a scale of 1-5 with every interaction they have and which impacts their socioeconomic status and, ultimately, their lives.
For our podcast this week, Cinzia and Ann discuss both readings, the video and the Black Mirror Netflix episode. The readings they focus on were danah boyd’s "Identity: Why do teens seem strange online?", from her book "It's complicated," which talks about the trials and tribulations of today’s teens’ social life and interactions online, and their identity work in an online environment. They also talk about Jon Ronson’s “God that was awesome,” which highlighted the public shaming which occurs on social media in channels such as Twitter and the comparisons to real life shaming. They also discuss the France 24 video "China introduces ‘social credit score’ for citizens," which highlighted the social credit experiment happening today in China and the public shaming it employs to manipulate people’s behavior. And they speak briefly about the Black Mirror episode, Nosedive, whose plot concentrates on a social rating system in society in which people rate each other on a scale of 1-5 with every interaction they have and which impacts their socioeconomic status and, ultimately, their lives.
Aaron Chia Yuan Hung