Blog #8

In class today, February 28^th we started group presentations for the Unit 1 projects. My project performed and I think we did a great job. We successfully met all the guidelines and collaborated with one another during our presentation. We built upon one another and each touches on our Prezi slides and website. This project was very interesting and I loved that we were all able to pick our own topics. Everyone in my group are all passionate about Transgender Rights and Caitlyn Jenner’s transformation.

On Tuesday, there were many presentations, however my favorite presentation was on minimum wage. They did a great job explaining minimum wage and talked a lot about 15 dollars an hour as a prominent subject. They spoke about Washington, DC and how the minimum wage is 15 dollars an hour as well. Fifteen states have increased their minimum wage this year. Even Arizona. The minimum wage in Arizona has increased from 8.25 an hour to 10 dollars an hour.

On Thursday, my favorite presentation was on Tech Impact on the Police Force. The timeline started in 1990 and finished in 2016. Each slide was about a different person and their impact. They talked about Mark Fuhrman who was known for being apart of the O.J. Simpson trial. The trial was of course well known and was watched by over 100 million people. Fuhrman was a detective for the L.A. police department and was accused of being a very racist police officer.

Blog #7

Blog #7

In Chapter 1, Move on Effect: The Unexpected Transformation of American Political Advocacy. This chapter is mainly about labor protests in Wisconsin and the examination of internet-mediated advocacy groups and how they play in American politics today. There is also a section on prevailing scholarships on internet politics. Arguing that is has turned into two subsections called organizing without organizations and theory 2.0. Clicktivism is also a large section of the chapter which means a layer of organization specifically politics. This chapter discusses many chapter. Actually seven in total. In one chapter, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitter are talked about. All of these social media platforms are also known as blogs or media channels since they are organized online and information is able to spread so largely through these applications.

In our most recent PowerPoint on the New Generation of Political Advocacy Groups. I learned that there is current research about the internet and politics holds two competing claims to be true. Karpf who is the author offers a third option that modifies these claims. The first claim is where the new media environment has enabled a surge in “organizing without organizations”. The second claim is where new media “clictivism” has no real effect at all on American politics, which remains the same old, entrenched system. The third claim changes in information technology and has transformed the organizational layer of American. His many claims have led to new media and led to more advocacy groups. This shows that new media like Hashtags can lead to advocacy groups, just like the NYPD hashtag and how that hashtag has lead to so much more. This hashtag showing support for the NYPD was turned into a negative idea. #MyNYPD turned into people posting content that showed this organization beating protestors and stopping protests with physical violence

We watched a video is class today, February 23^rd. The video mainly talks about Twitter. Twitter was a key aspect in organizing protests now-a-days. This is something we believe to be true and again something that the DCAT still uses to share their ideas and to get information out. Twitter allows people to be able to collaborate by hashtags and usernames to become something better and overall a greater good. Zeynep Tufekci mentioned during her TED talk that the media was very slow when reacting to a real story or protest. They would wait to hear what the government wanted them to do. We are all so grateful and thankful for smart phones, social media, advocacy, and Twitter. People have rallied all around the world to show their impact and care for using media, new media and digital technologies.

Blog 6

This past weekend I worked on organizing the Prezi for the Unit 1 Project. My groups Prezi is about Caitlyn Jenner and LGBTQ rights as a whole. We are discussing Life before Caitlyn Jenner and how she lived her life as Bruce, the spotlight, how people have reacted to her coming out, political views, and how the media has come into play.

 In comparison to Caitlyn Jenner, the NYPD hashtag was created to show support for this organization. This hashtag showing support for the NYPD was turned into a negative idea. #MyNYPD turned into people posting content that showed this organization beating protestors and stopping protests with physical violence. Like Caitlyn Jenner, her coming out was praised by some and hated by others.

On social media podiums, society posted both negative and positive things about her. Essentially, these two collude have similarities just as any social cause would. Because the information is spread amongst so many people throughout the world, that just gives that many opinions being shared concerning this subject matter.

On another online reading, titled Get up, Stand up is very similar to the article on the NYPD hashtag. This article is mainly about the 1960’s. If you were a civil rights worker it was your job to make everyone aware of the activist’s arrests and danger along with it. There were huge crowds of media people surrounding Michael Brown casket. The shooting of Michael Brown occurred in Ferguson, Missouri. Michael Brown robbed a convenience store and was shot by a white man named Darren Wilson. I believe if a white man was robbing a convenience store today, he would be handcuffed and taken away to jail. There was a lot more racism in the 1960’s. However, racism is still prominent today, just not as serious as it was years ago.  On April 30, 2015, hundreds of demonstrators in Baltimore make their way to city hall, demanding justice for Freddie Grey who was 25, a black man, and died in police custody. Black lives do matter and we need to start a revolution.