Verity Ritchie
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How Social Media Changes Your Mind
🕑 Added 2022-06-20 17:59:31 +0000 UTCLet's goooo!
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Verity
Thank you, Lizzer!
Lizzer the Lizard
It was brilliant how you managed to get to the role of algorithms in swaying oppinions in the trial without having to spend time dissecting the trial itself - it makes the video more accessible even to people who are in the Depp stan bandwagon... with all the quoted sources, I'm saving this video to potentially use as material for my students
Verity
Thank you, TempoRainy! I think about this a lot regarding my young relatives. I think you're right, the best thing we can do is try to make sure they are educated as to how all this works. I think generally people think of their social media profiles as authentic expressions of their selves, but very few recognise that that expression exists as product for a company. I wonder if I had had that perspective when I was younger if I would've approached the internet differently.
TempoRainy
this video absolutely eviscerated me, but in a really important way. my partner and i are planning on having children and more and more i can't stop thinking about their future on the internet. how do i protect them from all this without just entirely cutting them off from the world? we're trying to do our best as future parents to keep ourselves educated and informed so we can help them navigate these spaces. essays like this really helps pierce the numbness and remind me to embrace those convictions again with renewed energy. i think the work you're doing is really important, to this internet stranger at least. thank you very much for being here.
