BLOG #9 - EOTO REAX Project 2

 I chose to do my reflection on Maddie’s presentation about illusion truth theory. I honestly thought it was so interesting how it’s a reoccurring statement that makes more people more likely to believe it even if it’s not true at all. How it started as an experiment to repeat a statement and how to make more people believe it. People were shown claims somewhere, some were true and some were false. The researchers found that more people were likely to trust the claim, even though it wasn’t fully accurate. It's just people were getting influenced by the perception of the truth.

She goes into how the illusion truth effect was really affected during the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic was claimed as a “deliberate biological weapon” that was spread through very quickly and was believed as a claim which was lacking in credibility. There was information getting shared online rapidly during Covid, but there were often not accurate sources giving accurate sources. With all the different posts through social media people still didn’t know what was false information yet a lot of people believed it all to be true. It shows kind of the same experiment  that the researchers did, but this one was a real event, but there were some fake accusations during the time. 

I like how Maddie included the illusory truth effect since it puts accurate educational material in the public spotlight and highlights the possible harm of sharing incorrect information. Since our younger generation is all online and social media it’s easier for them to see false information and believe it’s true. This is especially true for children, as I mentioned prior. In our new generations, with everything on social media, they may believe anything they see, but if they are aware of this, I think it will be very beneficial for our future.

Blog Post #7 - EOTO REAX Project 1

I choose to write about Camden's presentation, the history of emojis. I personally love using emojis in my text. I feel like it helps me emphasize what I mean in a text. People take texts and interpret them in so many different ways so I feel like when adding emoji it’s a visual face that someone could see how persuasive it is. Not always that is the case, though, but I definitely think about how I use them. I think it helps people, but sometimes there is confusion. As if someone could interpret the message with something that sarcastic if they added an emoji that might’ve not been sarcastic and it was more on a serious matter.

From this point in Camden's presentation, I feel like I gained a lot of knowledge about emojis that I was previously unaware of. Who created them at the time of their creation. One part of her presentation that truly stuck out was one that covered the early days of emojis, their development over time, their increased detail, and how they create emotion without sacrificing intelligence. With the first set of mobile phones with emojis was introduced in 1997. They were released with the IOS 5 software from Apple in 2011, so a few decades after the emojis were introduce. Apple was able to introduce the whole collection of emojis in the release of the new software.

Emojis could be used in text messages or simply as a new invention to help with a variety of tasks. According to an American computer scientist, who invented them in 1979, they were intended to be used to convey a message by depicting a happy or amusing face. It was primarily to just have an emotional context to a message for online purposes.

From listening, reflecting on the history of emojis I honestly didn’t really know much about them obviously I knew what they were but it’s just so cool to see on how creative we got over the years and how our world is just filled with emojis everywhere .

Blog #8 - EOTO Online Influencers

 

Having a large following is not the only benefit of being an online influencer. Being an online influencer can hold lots of responsibilities as they influence different views and opinions to their audience. Engaging and influencing a large following, making money through partnerships or sponsorships can turn into a full-time job. There’s so many different benefits of being an online influencer. Influencers have the opportunity to develop to build a personal brand and connect them with their large following. There are some downsides with being an online influencer that could involve lots of stress and it could be difficult to handle the businesses interest while remaining honest opinions and receiving negative feedback by your following.  Receiving negative feedback from your own  following can be very hard when you're trying to please the business requirements for your post and please your followers. It can be very hard for an influencer and their mental health to balance both feedback and not let the hate get to you. 

Online influencers have the opportunity to have a big impact on society. They have the voice where they could raise awareness about certain issues, promote positive behaviors, and bring focus to important concerns. There also can be some concerns with online influencers not always checking the accuracy of the content they post. They could be spending false information which could be a serious problem. Can give them a lot of backlash and have their followers start to have a different look on them. 

Online influencers have such a huge impact on different segments in so many ways. The wealthier the viewer, they might be drawn to luxury influencers while those who offer affordable recommendations might spend more time following them. The younger the viewer there is more typically interested in social media trends, when an older viewer may follow influencers that focus on particular things like healthcare or finance. Men and women can be affected by gender specific influencers in different ways. For example, women are more likely to be attracted to beauty and fashion influencers rather than males are more influenced to be attracted to Fitness or technology influencers. Viewers may also look for influencers who they support and raise awareness of their group while advocating for diversity. Overall, the impact of influencers varies widely based on the unique  features and interest of their audience. 

Influencers may have a significant impact on your life. Online influencers have a huge impact on my life because I’m very easily influenced to buy something. I think the big impact will be on our generation because with the use of social media it’s likely to be influenced by online personalities by shaping trends, social movements, and even political opinions.

Overall, the impact of influencers varies widely based on the unique  features and interest of their audience. Having a large following and being an online influencer can be very good and can have some downsides. Being an online influencer can hold lots of responsibilities as they influence different views and opinions to their following.

Blog# 4 - Privacy

 

Adults always tell you when you're younger to be careful with certain things you post on social media. "Post what you want your mom to see.” It acts as a reminder to help you think about the consequences of sharing something you wouldn't want other people to see, like your mom.  It's a saying from when I was younger that has truly stayed with me because my parents would never want me to share anything too personal or unacceptable that may damage my reputation or that of my family. Growing up, I was also constantly reminded by my three older brothers to avoid posting anything I didn't want other people to see. 

The TedTalks really emphasizes how scary it can be for all of us. The government and other websites that have so much of our information. Juan Enriquez and Catherine Crump really dive deep into the real importance of protecting our information.

Juan Enriquez explains in the TedTalk “Your Online Life, Permanent as a tattoo” that explains how your Internet perception can leave a long impression on yourself. Even if you delete something no matter if you delete it or remove it it remains online forever. As the TED talk gets further more into detail he really talks about electronic tattoos because when you get a tattoo, it’s there forever.

In her TedTalk, "How revenge porn turns lives upside down," Catherine Crump explains how police are tracking the locations of individuals while watching their actions using modern video surveillance, including technologies on our cell phones that function as trackers and can scan license plates. Innocent people can be used for things like profiling and blackmail, as demonstrated in the TedTalk. Catherine uses a lot of the data given in the TED talk to support her argument that restrictions are required to stop police from keeping information about innocent people. To protect our privacy while permitting legal utilization of technology. 

Privacy issues affect my friends and my family because there could be personal information, theft, identity, and loss of control with someone’s life that could happen in my family. Growing up being told to be careful what you post I think really helped me growing up. I think the government should take more appropriate steps to protect individuals' privacy. This includes maybe direct regulations on certain data usage or making certain companies have a stricter policy.

Blog #5 - Age of AI

 

    Artificial intelligence (AI) is a type of computer science that focuses on creating better systems to perform tasks that are typically for human intelligence. 

The documentary "In the Age of AI" by FRONTLINE takes a far more comprehensive look at AI, including its features and development.  Along with how it will eventually dominate society. The documentary explores the rapid growth of advancement of artificial intelligence, and how it has a significant impact. It clearly shows how AI is impacting the number of companies and industries in the industry at large.  The documentary raises plenty of privacy and job loss issues related to AI. China's significant developments in AI and how the government's efforts genuinely ruled the world were two significant topics that particularly caught my attention. It really highlights the ethical issues and concerns raised by all the uses and systems of AI and how people use it in their daily life and throughout the world.

There are some positive aspects and more complex things about artificial intelligence and machine learning. Some positive aspects I think could help people with using AI could give them a lot of tasks and ideas and help them in a productive way in various industries is just in a little thing or helping them figure out something.  Additionally, it might promote fast data analysis, offering insight from multiple viewpoints to improve decision-making and problem-solving. 

 But with AI, a lot of people have concerns with privacy, but I think there’s pros and cons that go into that.  One advantage of AI, in my opinion, is that it can significantly improve data and create better system codes that protect personal information more effectively than current technology. An AI-powered system might contain a lot of data. Withholding all of your personal information that might be revealed, misplaced, or accidentally overlooked may cause privacy issues.

    From the documentary the section,  https://youtu.be/5dZ_lvDgevk?t=2728&si=o3UrCWFVmLxsj4Ua  Kai-Fu Lee, a Sinovation Ventures CEO, his statement is saying that AI is not going to take over blue-collar jobs. It’s actually gonna be taking over white collar jobs. We respond back with “while both will happen” “white collar jobs are easier to take because they are pure quantitative analytic processes” he states. Then further go into detail on what types of jobs are more affected like reporters, telemarketers, and customer service jobs saying “all will be replaced by software.” Learning that a system could deprive people of their income truly concerns me. There should be a balance between AI helping and taking over, in my opinion, because when he discuss how AI wouldn't replace blue-collar jobs, it would replace white-collar jobs because, as he says, blue-collar jobs are essentially hands-on or in different fields, and white-collar jobs could be easily replaced by software.

    Lastly, the documentary recognizes the advantages and disadvantages of AI while highlighting and balancing many viewpoints on the matter.  Given that the documentary is five years old, I would really like to see a new one that explores the state of artificial intelligence in five years from now.

Blog #6- EOTO Project - YouTube

 

    YouTube is today one of the largest film sharing/uploading platforms in the world with billions of watchers/viewers/contact creators. YouTube was created in 2005 by 3 guys. Steven Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. The first idea for the platform of YouTube was when the founders were at a dinner party and they wanted to create something to share videos online and expire them to develop a friendly platform to use and upload videos. It also was made as a video dating online service for people to introduce themselves and to describe what they were looking for and a partner. 

    A big factor about YouTube  being created is the creators  were really frustrated since there was no simple way to upload/share videos in an easy way. So they created a platform to do so. YouTube has significantly changed our world today. With creating, making, and uploading content. There are so many factors that go into how YouTube changed our world by showing different ways. People could have platforms to share their videos regarding what their background is to show creator‘s content and how it’s influencing people to have careers in that field or just to reach their audience. There’s so many educational resources on YouTube with tutorials, lectures, how to make certain things, anything you possibly need an educational resource for it will be on YouTube. Another aspect is that it changes in our world with entertainment, advertising, and marketing different things. People could show all their different marketing techniques and how they Collab with different Youtubers with different brands and how it reaches certain audiences to give them a significant part of a digital marketing.

    

Although all the good significant life-changing factors that YouTube brings, there’s also a lot of negative factors back in the day when YouTube was first created that a lot of people didn’t like users would be able to post, share, and view content without restriction so basically anyone could see anything and post whatever because there wasn’t a restriction guide back in the day when it was first made. Children can also view videos that would be maybe considered strange, explicit words, or maybe even sexual content. Because at the time there was no restriction guide. Also other factors that were big problems were YouTube is trying to provide a platform where anyone could upload a video and watch contact without barriers or cost because now since there’s so many restrictions with copyright in all of that, people are making money back in the day off of that and they were stealing other people‘s content without barriers or restriction.

    YouTube has a huge impact on the world by connecting people all over the world and giving them a voice. YouTube changed the world by giving so many people different outlets to connect over each other’s videos, but also giving them a way to make money by doing certain stuff they love. It was an easy way for people to upload, share videos to reach other people around the world could build different communities by sharing interest, but also connecting with each other with something they both love.

Blog #3- 8 Values of Free Expression

The eight values of free expression are a huge function in our society today. It brings you the way of finding truth which values and allows for the exchange of different interpretations of uncovering the truth. Having other different people’s values with their opinions can have the public involved as well. With being to have a free expression on what you believe. It will also help support individuals by fulfilling their expression of their ideas and beliefs.I think it’s a good way that it helps advance knowledge and gives free expression. It can also maintain peaceful means through solving conflicts.

The most important I believe and most personal to me I think would be individual self-fulfillment. I believe this is the most important because it’s a true factor of free expression that allows growth to one’s potential. It empowers the free expression for personal growth and self reflection. By being able to have free thoughts, ideas, creative outlooks that can influence and achieve our lives fulfilling. It’s a value where people could have a voice in their way and in their perspective show what they’re going through their experiences with all having a purpose in just a free sense of welcomeness. I think it’s truly the most important because as we’re going through a time of people’s different expressions of passions. I think that having self -information is truly the most important. Growing up in a household that my parents truly wanted our own voices with all 3 of my brothers to have different opinions with each other and that we all have had a voice, so we really didn’t discuss politics on a manner of what our parents believe but they would encourage us to learn about it so we have our own opinions and we wouldn’t really share with each other. What ours were because my parents thought that we had her own voice to talk to and that we shouldn’t be influenced by what their opinions were or my brothers. While growing up having that nowadays, I feel like it’s very rare because everyone kind of just follows their family or what they believe and it’s not really a self informant expression when I feel like they could maybe take a back, maybe they still believe the same stuff but it’s truly what they believe. Individual self-fulfillment definitely has to feel the most important and personal to me. Individual self-information definitely has to feel the most important and personal to me and I also could see this nowadays, but not as much as I see.

I believe the most important one I could see nowadays would probably be advancing knowledge with going through this election and even way before the election I feel like people just need to know their knowledge before having a big opinion on everything and kind of just understanding that other people have opinions which is perfectly fine but to accept that which I feel like nowadays, it’s really hard and it’s more like of a competition/argument, then more of freedom of expression.