Analysis Of How One Stupid Tweet Blew Up Justine Sacco

In “ How a Tweet Can Ruin Your Life”, an extract from Jon Ronson’s book So You’ve Been Shamed, Jon Ronson uses interviews of people, appeals such as pathos and logos, and language from both sides of a situation in order to get answers to the question of how social media got to the point of causing such serious consequences. Both interviewees, “Hank” (in quotes for privacy purposes) and Adria ended up losing their jobs. The interviews show the emotions and thoughts from both people. “Hank” one day at work said a joke to his friend, “It was about a fictitious piece of hardware that has a really big dongle - a ridiculous dongle.” which was overheard by Adria.

I was watching the news, when the footage of the Hurricane Katrina disaster came on. The news reporters were showing a black man walking in flooded waters near a market with a bag full of food and labeled him a “thief”. Social media in the United States has portrayed people of different racial backgrounds differently and unequally in recent years. In the essays “Theories and Constructs of Race” and “Loot or Find: Fact or Frame?” the authors discuss in both essays about issues with racial equality in our world today. Authors Linda Holtzman and Leon Sharpe discuss in the first essay racial schemes are created through prejudices and the telling and retelling of stories. While, authors Cheryl I. Harris and Devon W. Carbado discuss in their essay about the issue of “colorblindness” in social media. Holtzman is a professor of communications and journalism at Webster University, while Sharpe is a professor at Webster as well. Similarly, Harris and Carbado are professors at UCLA’s School of Law and have addressed widely on race, gender, civil rights and constitutional issues. Both essays do a good job at explaining their ideas and supporting them with evidence of racial discrimination in our world today. The authors from both essays organize their ideas and summarize them, which helps understand the main idea of racism, discrimination and racial inequalities in today’s society.

Having demonstrated how the use of technology can influence young generations, Stryker goes on to say that punishing those who make bad and or racist remarks only breeks further hatred. Stryker uses a hypothetical example to support his claim and explain why. He continues to go further and give real world examples of how a New York City EMT was fired because of his racist tweets on his online profile (Stryker 588). This strengthened Stryker’s position on how publicly shaming an individual only causes more harm and problems.

Debates over racism continued with the death of Thomas Eric Duncan. Online communities thought that Ebola did not killed Duncan, but instead the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital. Rumors like "...A statement released by the family of the first person to be diagnosed and die of the Ebola virus in the United States called it 'suspicious ' that all white patients treated in America survived the illness..." appeared on Facebook (Patriot Outdoor News). In "Implications of User Choice: The Cultural Logic of "MySpace or Facebook?" Danah Boyd explains how "[social media] ...actually reveals social stratification and reproduces social divisions" (410). The rumors about Duncan 's death show the effects of exaggerating social aspects online. Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital health care services could have lead Duncan 's health providers into legal and economic problems.

Nikita Carney’s “All Lives Matter, but so Does Race: Black Lives Matter and the Evolving Role of Social Media” assesses the role of social media as a public sphere, capable of influencing public discourse and the evolution of social media as a platform for discussing racial injustice. Carney uses twitter as her subject and analyzes the opposing discourse surrounding hashtags “#BlackLivesMatter” and “#AllLivesMatter” occurring after the non-indictments of white police officers in the killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown. These hashtags represent opposing ideology about police brutality and the persecution of black bodies. Carney begins by establishing Twitter as a place for marginalized youth of color to engage in meaningful discourse about their experiences of racial inequality. Carney notes that “different groups viewing the same media coverage interpret issues of race and police violence in drastically different ways”, proving the existence of confirmation bias on social media. Millennials have

Racism, known as “the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.” (Oxford, 2013) When an individual mentions the word ‘racism’ almost all the time it will be referred to a black individual, not white nor any other race, but black. Over the years racism has repeatedly occurred whether it was said or done; some showed racism by the words they used, while others presented it by the racist acts they committed. Racism towards the black community has not only been shown by other races, but also by individuals who were there to keep them ‘safe’. Very contradictory yet true, that a black man’s worst

In his passionately written article “The Backlash Against Serial—and Why It’s Wrong,” author Conor Friedersdorf comes to the podcast’s defense following the harsh criticisms that have been thrown at Serial since its debut. Serial is a spinoff series from parent podcast This American Life, which details the investigation and reinvestigation of a brutal 1999 murder involving high school lovers of the Baltimore area. Friedersdorf’s piece not only comes to defend Serial’s honor, but it also fights back and grapples with these disparagements thrown at the podcast. In particular, the accused transgressions from fellow writers Jay Caspian Kang in his own work “Serial and White Reporter Privilege” and Jeff Yang’s post from Quartz. In my judgement, Friedersdorf does an excellent job refuting Kang’s and Yang’s opposing views and persuading his audience that Serial is innocent of the accused wrongdoings.

In the Detroit Free Press article written by Niraj Warikoo (2013), the author details a story about a 36-year-old half-Jewish and half-Arab woman from Ohio who was racially profiled on a plane and

When Natalee Holloway went missing her face was plastered on every television screen to promote her being found. Some people wonder why white females make national news more often than any other female or male for that matter. In the argumentative essay “Not Only Natalee is Missing” Anne-Marie O’Connor tries to explain how and why people make national news. O’Connor’s essay starts out based on the idea that white females are the only ones that make national news, but her use of pathos, ethos, and logos, prove this idea to be based upon economic status and race rather than gender alone.

It is insane how one stupid post can leave you in fear of leaving the house ,sadly this is the case for a girl named Sacca. Two years ago in 2016 a girl traveling to Africa made a poor decision and tweeted an inappropriate comment about aids in Africa and how she will not be receiving them because she is white , millions of people felt insulted and because of this they baklashed .

Ann Coulter’s column, “Media Finds Las Vegas Shooter’s Motive: He’s White” (Oct 12, 2017), asserts that the media is blaming white men for the violence in America. The author supports this claim by showing a few headlines from unidentified sources and outlets. The author’s purpose is to race-bait in order to shift the central political argument from gun control to race. Given the inflammatory language of this article and the rhetorical questions she wants attention drawn to, the intended audience of this article would be conspiracy theorists, gun enthusiasts, and racists.

In relation to stereotyping and prejudice, racism in effect is defined as the discrimination of a certain group of people as perceived by another group of people (Khan, Saera R. et al.). In Staples article, the issue surrounding stereotyping is brought forth in relation to the resulting prejudice and consequently racism as witnessed on Staples relations with the predominantly white community. “My first victim was a woman – white, well dressed, probably in her early twenties. I came upon her late one evening on a deserted street in Hyde Park, a relatively affluent neighborhood in an otherwise mean, impoverished section of Chicago” (staples). Staples statement suggests that the white woman is his victim even though we are quite sure that he is an innocent African American intellectual man. It can then, be argued that, through the constant stereotypes that Staples interacts with, prejudice makes him believe that he is wrong to be walking on the same street as the white woman.

Social consciousness in the media and journalism is commonly thought of as the ability to acknowledge that an event has occurred, then address it vaguely to parade a false sense of progression. However, columnist and Pulitzer winner, Leonard Pitts Jr. embraces the analysis and discussion of issues that the public does not understand or refuses to recognize, such as racial prejudice in his essay, A Racial Hate Crime, Pure and Simple, where he concedes the denial of racism in America. In each of his pieces, Pitts provides versatility with his rationale as well as an immense regard for the magnitude of communal perception and prejudices. In support of his more liberalistic ideals, he makes a point of using compelling argumentative techniques, which convinces his audience to examine the articles in his favor, giving him the components of a strong essayist.

Last year, Yiannopoulos was permanently banned from Twitter for his role in a campaign of racist, sexist harassment directed at Leslie Jones, a “Saturday Night Live” cast member. When Twitter suspended his account, Yiannopoulos denounced it as “cowardly” and declared himself a martyr for the cause of free speech. Twitter, he said, was “a no-go zone for conservatives.” The tacit admission that Yiannopoulos sees targeted abuse of a female African-American comedian as “conservative” is revealing, if only in that it strips away the fig leaf of euphemism separating the alt-right from the hive of racism and sexism that defined last year’s Presidential election. That it was the Berkeley College Republicans who invited him to campus further supported this association. No chemistry department would extend an invitation to an alchemist; no reputable department of psychology would entertain a lecture espousing phrenology. But amid the student conservatives at Berkeley—and along the lecture circuit where he is a sought-after speaker—Yiannopoulos’s toxic brew of bigotries apparently meets their standard for credibility. And this recognition is as big a problem as anything he has said in his talks or in his erstwhile existence as a Twitter troll.

on the Huffington post . And I found this very interesting because it brings to light a very present disturbing phenomenon in our society. This persisting idea of the white man’s burden, which can be traced to colonial and slavery times where very racist images of uncle Sam or the white man carrying a black and uncivilized people to civilization and saving them from their indigenous primitive noble native ways. And um and one would think that this idea of the white man’s burden is gone but it’s very very present in our society today on Instagram and twitter and if