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The Debate Around Social Media

Technology companies view their users as commodities

Gehl

"Alongside all of them were Facebook employees who were embedded with the Trump campaign to help them use Facebook’s various tools most effectively—including the so-called “dark posts,” used to dissuade African-Americans from showing up to vote."

Madrigal

"we see that software abstraction is not simply a method to mentally and ideally conceive of a software system; it also functions as a real abstraction..." (105)

Halpern

"It’s not that this research was supposed to identify every U.S. voter just from this data, but rather to develop a method for sorting people based on Facebook’s profiles."

Social Media has a strong poltical platform

Loader et al

"Instead, alternative communication channels and modes of action, such as those enacted during the Arab Spring or Occupy movement express the voice of young citizens around the world." (145)

talks about the political use of social media through historical evidence

Shirky

"Access to information is far less important, politically, than access to conversation." (35)

Social Media allows for positive social connections

Nakamura (in between)

social media can "cut particular bodies out of the histories in the making"(3)

Chayko (agrees)

"technology...facilitates the flow of information from person to person...This allows people to discover the kind of commonalities that can inspire social connectedness."

Marsha et al (disagrees)

"narcissism was positively associated with updating about achievements and with using Facebook for validation" (38)

Shensa et al (disagrees)

"frequency but not SMU time remained significantly and independently associated with depressive symptoms" (156)