Jessica Bennett Internet Fame

In the article, "The Dark Side of Web Fame" by Jessica Bennett, posted online at http://www.newsweek.com/dark-side-web-fame-93505 and published on February 21, 2008, the author recounts multiple stories of when the power of the internet had not benefitted people, but had actually harmed their reputation. Bennett starts the essay by giving an example of a high school boy who made an unfortunately embarrassing video, that was never meant to be published. Sadly, another student found the video and released it online, where the video became a viral sensation and the teen was humiliated not only on a local level, but a global level too. Throughout the article Bennett gives other examples to show the reader that people, using the tool of the

Having to go through sexual assault and then a year of bullying made Melinda speak up. Melinda went down a rough road in her life. Through all this Melinda grew strength and wisdom. At the school Melinda warned the girls about what Andy is capable of doing. She told Rachelle to watch out and to be careful around him. In Melinda’s later years she began writing her about story to help her express her feelings. She began warning others what sexual assault can do people and the harms of bullying. Even tho Melinda’s experience harmed her in many ways it gave her a story to help

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.

The Flip Side of Internet Fame by Jessica Bennett. I believe her argument is how things posted on the internet is big, like once someone post something on their it’s going to be on the internet forever. I agree with her because once you posted something on the internet it’s forever going up there even if you deleted the post or the picture. I am going to write about the first person that Jessica Bennett talks to about the “Star Wars Kid”, bullying, and the cyber world.

This article Discusses the case of Christine Franklin. Franklin was a sophomore at the time of the sexual harassment and abuse claims.

In the article “Athletic club weekend turns into a nightmare for college freshman” by Carol smith and Lee Van Der Voo, Emily Lorenzen shares her story of being a rape victim. Emily shares her account because she wants to help to prevent rape from happening to anyone else. After interviewing Emily the authors shared a statement expressing that “Emily lorenzen believes that if people hear her story, they will be more comfortable confronting the issue of sexual assault on campus. She wants more conversation, so that men get a clearer definition of rape, face stiffer penalties if they ignore it and administrators learn to reach out to women like her and show compassion. She especially wants bystanders to step up and protect people who are vulnerable.” Rape victims need support to not feel guilty or ashamed, and that is exactly what Emily and her father desire. On this topic, Shipman an influential contributor of the Spokane sexual assault

A young white Hartford student, Brianna Brochu, was arrested and charged with third-degree criminal mischief and second-degree breach of peace on Saturday for bullying her university roommate, Chennel “Jazzy” Rowe. Police arrested her after she boasted online calling her “Jamaican Barbie” and admitting to tampering with her belongings. She has confessed to atrocities such as “putting her toothbrush where the sun don't shine” and smearing period blood on the girl’s backpack for nearly over a month. Rowe was not aware of the harassment until she became fed up with feeling unwanted in her own room and as she was moving out a dorm an advisor approached her and showed her the post. This atrocious hate crime is being dealt with by the University but after they asked Rowe not to talk about it, she refused to let it be swept under the rug and livestreamed her story.

There are only one percent of rape accusations that are false. Brian Banks could be considered apart of this one percent. This young boy, at the time, was well on his way to a wonderful career. He had just been accepted to the University of Southern California on a four year scholarship, and famed in his high school, Long Beach Polytechnic High, for his incomparable football skills. But, one day, his life would take a turn for the worst. The Brian Banks case and the Crucible were cases that could be considered inequitable because people were falsely accused, people's lives were set back, and chances of living a care-free life were ruined.

The only thing Stryker and I can agree is the old way of public shaming doesn't work. In this day and age, you can't do things like that anymore, as it simply doesn't work. as Stryker says scarlet letters stopped working because with planes, trains and automobiles, if people were being shamed they just left and moved somewhere else. “So we turn instead to public humiliation, an organic form of social control that never went away completely,” (Stryker 2.) The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorne depicts a woman pregnant out of wedlock and she gets branded with a red A for adultery, a very clear case of public shaming and humiliation. Like Stryker discuss scarlet letters just don't work anymore. If that happened today (even though it wouldn't) she would just leave town and live somewhere else. So I do agree with Stryker that things like that are a way of the past. Doxxing is the new world of public shaming and it's working. As seen in this story from the Charlottesville riots in august. “Logan Smith, the man behind the Twitter account @YesYoureRacist, began posting photos of alleged white supremacist protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia—and gained over 300,000 followers in a single weekend, some of whom helped him expose the identities of the protesters. One of the people Smith outed has since been fired

In the first video, “Claudette Colvin and Rosa Parks”, we recognize that the rhetor is trying to use Ethos to persuade the audience. When we watch this video, we ask themselves that “why should we trust this speaker when we even don’t know who is she”. After watching this video, we can conclude that The women who is telling the story speaks with confidence and influence, so it makes audience believes that she knows pretty much about that story. Her ethos is very strong, so she is successful to convinces the audience that her story is true.

Many people use the internet as a safe haven. They use it to see what is in style and then they conform to that trend. According to salon.com advertisements with beautiful models present specific ideas of beauty and it makes you want to conform to be like them. Television, ads, and social networking sites will act from an economic standpoint to make you want to buy it and then people will conform to you. The internet and media give people a sense of what is right and what is wrong. So when people buy something or see an ad they conform to what that person thinks is right. People listen to songs on the radio and if they see that a lot of people like that song and listen to it over, and over again they will conform to like that song too, just to be like everyone else. People rate songs and other things on the internet based on what others think. According to Dr.Salganik “if you rewound the world and played it again, you could see a potentially different outcome.” This is like a song if you see that people on the internet or media like it, you will like it too. Soon everyone will like it. This means if everyone starts to like a song you will see a different outcome in the world and how people react to the song. Some people on the internet can be very persuasive the author of Among the Hidden made a character that is also like that. Jen was using the internet and media to talk to other shadow children and make them come to

In the article “The Flip Side of Internet Fame“, author Jessica Bennet argues that while posting things online can get you a quick rise to fame, these embarrassing things do stick with you for a lifetime. Bennet wrote, “ In 2002, Ghyslain Raza, a Canadian teen filmed himself acting out a fight scene from ‘Star Wars’. Using a makeshift light saber, Ghyslains’s awkward performance marked him as ‘internet famous’. Jessica stated that for over a year the video was kept on a school shelf at Raza’s schools’s Tv studio;however, in 2003 one student discovered the video , digitized it and posted it online, and that's when Raza’s nightmare began.

Have you ever wondered what influences us to behave the way we do? Look a certain way? Or even looked for an explanation to what causes us to apply a certain perspective regarding personal and controversial issues? One of the answers to these questions may revolve around the influence we absorb from celebrities. A definitive term for celebrity is an iconic figure to a category or group who has achieved success in one or multiple aspects of their lives. As a result, these individuals have drawn in publicity and fame. Over the years with the advances in media and other forms of communication, celebrities have become topics of discussion worldwide, rather if it’s at school, with colleagues or at the dinner table, it is fair to say that

Alice is being accused because she argues with her teacher a lot. Alice’s teacher picks on her.Alice’s teacher was in love with Alice’s father in her youth, but her father chose her mother over her teacher. So Alice’s teacher picks on her because of this, and Alice is merely defending herself. This was not the only reason she was accused.

As Boorstin (1962, p.18) puts it we live in an “illusionary” world of created characters surrounded by “pseudo events”. This viewpoint indicates the powerful role of the mass media in the fabrication of everyday consciousness. He argues that people are haunted in a way, not by reality, but by those images the public has put in place of reality. Celebrities are “human pseudo events”, entirely mass media constructions to be presented as “heroes”. This essay focuses on how achieved celebrities could be informal life coaches through their own talent and skills, their impact on society and the interdependent role of the mass media and cultural intermediaries on the commodification of the culture. Finally, it highlights the growth of notoriety