April 2013
8 posts
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It is safe to say that I have invaluably wasted a substantial part of my life on StumbleUpon. It has constantly been on in the background and has been a great procrastination tool in my last few weeks of Uni. Type in a topic and ;Stumble’...
“The feeling that ‘no one is listening to me’ make us want to spend time with...”
– Sherry Turkle, TED Conference, 2012.
http://youtu.be/t7Xr3AsBEK4
One Million Voices Against FARC →
Colombian Oscar Morales created a Facebook group against FARC that led to an international protest movement.
In 2008, Oscar Morales, a Colombian national took a simple online step which would have major unforeseen implications throughout Colombia. On the 4th of January 2008 Morales set up a public Facebook page protesting against the control and power the guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed...
“#CutForBieber”
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At the beginning of this year ‘trolling’ and ‘trending’ hit a new low with the #CutForBieber going global. Through the use of several dummy accounts trolls were able to cause an online epidemic were ‘Beliebers’ were persuaded to ‘Cut for Bieber’ to show their outrage at the allegations of him...
“#sandwichvan”
– Earlier this year a local Aberdonian receptionist went viral on Twitter with the #Sandwich Van trending, not only locally, but throughout the UK.
This was caused by a private email conversation between the receptionist and her fianceaccidently being forwarded to her entire work when she sent a...
In Censorship We Trust
So far I have focused on the impacts of sharing our information, but, for much of the population there are barriers to what information they can actually access online. It’s all fine and well being able to post about yourself, but for some it is not possible to find certain information or share certain views.
In some situations this is a protective measure enforced by the government to prevent...
March 2013
4 posts
“‘You are just a performance of stuff that he performed without thinking, and it...”
– In Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror he focuses on the - albeit excessive – foreboding future of social media and its affect on the real world. Be right back presents a mourning widow trying to overcome her grief by using imitating software to talk to her late husband through the back catalogue of...
