This week in class we went over many articles and videos of social issues that are happening right now as we speak. Going from racial justice to social issues and the involvement technology has had in it. Technology has always been there, it’s always been advancing and making our lives easier, but at what cost? If you really look at it, technology has made things more difficult than easy for people. Especially on social media with twitter, facebook, and instagram, you see this censorship and suppression of opinions because people just don’t agree with what you have to say. Even though social media was intended for us to spread ideas and give way to issues that needed to be talked about, it has yet been able to provide that platform. It’s not social medias fault, but instead our own faults for turning it into something it never should had been. For example hashtag’s were supposed to be used to show awareness of social issues and has now turned into sarcasm and trolling to see who will lose it on someone first. It’s like we are intentionally trying to egg people on just to get a reaction out of them, making issues that were small at first in to big ones. I think some people just find satisfaction in starting controversy and creating that hostile environment because they know no one is going to stop them.

An article called “THE DIGITAL CULTURESHIFT: MOVING FROM SCALE TO POWER TO ACHIEVE RACIAL JUSTICE” was one of the articles we had to read this week. The article went over race, technology, and movements for Native voices, Black lives, Muslim rights, migrant power, and racial justice in the 21st century. Now these are all very important topics of social issues and although this article was written in 2016, the problems that were happening then are still happening now. Such as the protesting involving George Floyd and other African Americans who were wrongfully killed by police officers. Now not only was the this situation met on a social media level, but also started a new form of the civil rights movement. We would all see tweets and posts about it on facebook and see the protests being done in states around the country. Now I believe that social media did help get the word out about these wrongful deaths being done by police officers using too much force, but I also believe that because of social media it also turned everyone against each other. Forcing people to take sides on whether or not police are all bad or only certain ones are. Some may even say it divided us as a country, turning into a war of sorts over on social media.

This sort of movement shouldn’t divide the American public but rather bring them together. Peoples strong views on social media have helped to divide the American public and create a divide within the country. Instead, the public should be coming together and understanding each-others views. This use of social media to voice strong opinions and start online fights has led to a strong divide within this country.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/politics/trump-gretchen-whitmer-law-and-order/index.html

This article is about Over the summer, as racial justice demonstrations swept through American cities, president Donald Trump warned he would wield the powers of government to suppress violence. Embracing a law and order mantle, Trump himself announced from the East Room a surge of federal agents and castigated groups such as Black Lives Matter as cultivating hate.