Blog #5

Blog #5

For class on Tuesday, we had two required readings on the matter of Black Lives. Black Lives Matter is a recent movement helping to get freedom and justice among all black people. One of the required readings came from an article in the New Yorker.

On February 15, the previous president of the United States, Obama met with a group of African Americans to plan how to help any civil rights issues. There were many people present during the meeting. The meeting was the first step to ending civil rights. Black lives matter is still present today and since Obama is not our president anymore it is hard to say what will happen now. Obama hasn’t done much to end the issues, he has only talked about economic inequality and politic problems.

In the required reading, titled Hijacking #myNYPD: Social Media Dissent and Networked Counterpublics, written by Sarah J. Jackson and Brooke Foucault Welles, the authors investigated hijacking. By using hashtags in articles it gives more awareness to that hashtag and will grow larger and stronger. They examined how Twitter was used as a platform and how they deal with racial profiling and police crime. They examined Twitter and figured out that new and old media can change public sharing.

This week in class we will be focusing on our timeline projects which seem like a very fun project. My project is on the infamous Kardashians. They are a huge social cause and are always talked about in the media. They are very relative to today’s popular culture. The information my group will find will be endless. My group and I will be able to collect a lot of information, from their successful businesses over the years to Caitlyn Jenner’s transformation. I cannot wait to get working on this project.

Works Cited:

"Hijacking #myNYPD: Social Media Dissent and Networked Counterpublics." University of Arizona - D2L(Desire2Learn). N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Feb. 2017.

Cobb, Jelani. "The Matter of Black Lives." The New Yorker. The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2016. Web. 14 Feb. 2017.