#smpcs18 The "We Are the Web" article was similar to the "Who Am We" in the way that both outline how the humans evolved in their social behaviors just as the computer itself evolved. Humans becoming more and more independent on the machine.

#smpcs18 I had a trouble opening up the article "Truth About Black Twitter" on my browsers.

#smpcs18 I am going to focus my tweets for today's class discussion on Tufekci's "Signaling Power" article.

#smpcs18 Social media drastically changes the way we organize protest movements. There is now an opportunity to have multiple online supporters from across the world backing the efforts of the people people protesting in the Tahrir Square.

#smpcs18 What is more productive street protests or online protests? The article talks about both and their role, but as a class do we think that online protests enable more people to engage larger debates? Or are street protests when people can be physically present better?

#smpcs18 Quote: "(social media) greatly enhance narrative capacity and have the ability to get attention and frame issues used to be controlled mostly by the mass media and their gatekeepers." Do we have more power in online protests?

#smpcs18 In thinking about the ways people protested during the 1970s and 1980s to now with the use of social media, does online interaction make it easier for people to come together or does it make it difficult/confusing with some many people being open about their opinions?

#smpcs18 In reference to the article talking about the black lives matter movement on Twitter, it talks about how fast information can flow online. In the speed in which we get our news via social media, some of the truths and facts gets lost in the noise....

#smpcs18 How can we potentially change this? How can we have discussion about events and also break news stories online quickly without losing credibility and facts?

#smpcs18 "The documents reveal the rationale behind seemingly inconsistent decisions...Higgins’ incitement to violence passed muster b/c it targeted a specific sub-group of Muslims - those that are “radicalized” - while Delgado’s post was deleted for attacking whites in general"

#smpcs18 Going off of my previous tweet from a quote from the Angwin article, it is interesting to see how we interpret "violent" messages when it is coming from one persons voice versus another person.

#smpcs18 In the algorithms Facebook makes to filter out "hate speech" are they limiting our right to free speech? How can a computer system (versus a real human) decipher between what is fake news, fake accounts, or conversations of real violent nature? Is it fair?

#smpcs18 I feel that the Tufekci article in reference to the Black Lives Matter movement really spoke to the large about of power and data Facebook has over its users. And how this power really affects how people in the U.S. get their news depending on their views/location...

#smpcs18 In the past I used to think of "fake news" as stories that are written non-credible sources or outlandish stories with no sources. Now I think of the 2016 election and Donald Trump....

#smpcs18 This quote from the BuzzFeed article, "These sites open a window into the economic incentives behind producing misinformation specifically for the wealthiest advertising markets and specifically for Facebook, the world's largest social network."

#smpcs18 To comment on my last tweet, it is crazy to think that site like Facebook are turning the friendly social connecting space into a market that targets its users and floods their feeds with "fake news" just to make a profit

#smpcs18 Are online "bots" consider the same as "online trolls"? Online accounts that harass people online?

#smpcs18 "Facebook has turned over some 3,000 ads from Russian sources to Congress, and Twitter found thousands of fake accounts that were later removed. Senators used some of the ads and posts from those fake accounts to hammer home their frustration with Facebook and Twitter"

#smpcs18 It was really scary to see politicians and Trump retweeting these fake Russian accounts during the campaign...

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