LibGuides: BC Talks: Social Media

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Why is it not Just a Joke? Analysis of Internet Memes Associated with Racism and Hidden Ideology of Colorblindness
By InJeong Yoon, Retrieved from ProQuest
Tweeting Without Context
By Tony Hazard
Retrieved from Santa Clara University Website
Posting about anti-racism on social media is popular this time of year, but without proper historical contextualization, the genealogy of activism and scholarship is often lost.
The Temptations of the ‘Personal Brand’
By Tish Harrison Warren
Retrieved from the New York Times
I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message
By Ezra Klein
Retrieved from the New York Times
Machine Bias
By by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Surya Mattu and Lauren Kirchner
Retrieved from ProPublica
There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it’s biased against blacks.
Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests
By Amanda Taub and Max Fisher
Retrieved from the New York Times

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On WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show, listen to Kate Eichhorn describe the increasingly blurred boundary between private and public, how reputation, celebrity, and personal branding are becoming salient to younger and younger children, and how it is becoming more and more difficult to erase even quotidian dialogue (such as chat logs) from public perusal:

In his new book, The Chaos Machine, Max Fisher details how the polarizing effect of social media is speeding up. He joined All Things Considered to talk about why tech companies benefit from this outrage, and the danger it could pose to society.

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Empathy Is Not Endorsement | Dylan Marron | TED

Social Media Activism and A Call to Action | Alexa Chukwumah | TEDxBrownU

What Do Your Digital Footprints Say About You? | Nicola Osborne | TEDxYouth@Manchester

Books @ BC

Algorithms of Oppression by Safiya Umoja Noble
Call Number: 025.04252 NOB
A revealing look at how negative biases against women of color are embedded in search engine results and algorithms
Weapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'Neil
Call Number: Ebook/ 005.7 ONE
Mathematician and data scientist Cathy O’Neil reveals that mathematical models being used today are unregulated and uncontestable, even when they’re wrong. Most troubling, they reinforce discrimination—propping up the lucky, punishing the downtrodden, and undermining our democracy in the process.
Social LEADia by Jennifer Casa-Todd
Call Number: Ebook
Equipping students for their future begins by helping them become digital leaders now. In our networked society, students need to learn how to leverage social media to connect to people, passions, and opportunities to grow and make a difference.
The Chaos Machine by Max Fisher
Call Number: 302.23 FIS
We all have a vague sense that social media is bad for our minds, for our children, and for our democracies. But the truth is that its reach and impact run far deeper than we have understood. Max Fisher tells the gripping and galling inside story of how Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and other social network preyed on psychological frailties to create the algorithms that drive everyday users to extreme opinions and, increasingly, extreme actions.
The Shame Machine by Cathy O'Neil
Call Number: 152.4 ONE
Shame is a powerful and sometimes useful tool: When we publicly shame corrupt politicians, abusive celebrities, or predatory corporations, we reinforce values of fairness and justice. But as Cathy O'Neil argues in this revelatory book, shaming has taken a new and dangerous turn.
By Any Media Necessary by Henry Jenkins; Sangita Shresthova; Liana Gamber-Thompson; Neta Kligler-Vilenchik; Arely Zimmerman
Call Number: 305.235 JEN
Young men and women are tapping into the potential of new forms of communication such as social media platforms, spreadable videos and memes, remixing the language of popular culture, and seeking to bring about political change--by any media necessary. In a series of case studies covering a diverse range of organizations, networks, and movements involving young people in the political process By Any Media Necessary examines the civic imagination at work.