Summary Of The Flip Side Of Internet Fame

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.

Shams has a visible presence on YouTube and has organised several events at universities. “I am at physical risk because I do videos,” says Shams. “I don’t like putting myself in the firing line, but I had to because no one else is willing to do it.”

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The first example is about Ghyslain Raza. Raza recorded himself preforming an imaginary battle with a lightsaber. About a year later, someone finds his recording and posted it online which resulted in the video going viral globally. Since the video had been posted, the video has been watched over 32 billion times. Raza immediately became famous, and with fame comes backlash. Jessica doesn’t come close to presenting enough information. Raza’s situation wasn’t pretty-he dropped out of school and was diagnosed with depression. Jessica should have presented more information to convince people that there is

In the article “From The Shallows: What The Internet is Doing to Our Brains,” Nicholas Carr continually reiterates the argument that the Internet is altering how we think. “I’ve had an uncomfortable sense that someone, or something, has been tinkering with my brain, remapping the neural circuitry” (Carr par. 2). Carr makes the point that he was always a voracious reader, but the fact that he uses the Internet so much for his job has changed the way he thinks and processes information. Over the course of the article he explains why this is the case. He uses the Internet not only for work, but for almost every other aspect of life including shopping, traveling, reading and numerous other activities.

When videos are posted on social media, they have a good chance of going “viral” if the content is right. Bennet writes about a boy, Raza, that creates a video and the video was posted by someone else onto a social networking website. Raza, also named “Star Wars kid”, “…became a source of public humiliation” (579). Another viral victim known as “Dog poop girl”, in Seoul “…refused to clean up after her dog in the subway…” (579). She was eventually humiliated enough that she had to drop out of college. Being publicly shamed and humiliated is a price paid when it comes to viral videos and social media. Bennet does a great job demonstrating how social media and viral videos can humiliate an individual. Humiliating a person can

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

As immigration is on the rise in many countries, Hillary sits down in her campaign video titled “Brave” to discuss the issue of deportation in America. The video begins with Hillary sitting with a group of people of color, the video seems to be filmed as if it was on a phone, imperfect yet “authentic”. At first, a soft spoken girl speaks up about her concerns for her family, “My parents, they have a letter of deportation…….I’m scared they are going to be deported.”, this cause the little girl to

An “I told you so” echoes from the grave of Neil Postman as a Reality TV star lead the polls for the GOP primary nomination in the 2016 presidential race. Meanwhile, a symbol of the most turbulent times in American history was recently removed from a state capitol and designated for museum status. Today’s latest social media sites like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, has assisted the Internet ‘steady growth and influence of society for over twenty years now. Three authors, Neil Postman, Daniel Solove, and Walter Lippmann have explored how various media and symbols have shaped society through history to today. Postman, in Amusing Ourselves to Death, Public Discourse in Age of Show Business saw the dangers in the medium of television turning the serious subjects of religion, the news, and particularly politics into forms of entertainment. In his book, future of reputation, David Solove argues, the law must meet the challenge to address these ever-changing technologies’ effect on one’s reputation and strive to protect the privacy while ensuring the freedom of speech. In the book, Public Opinion, author Walter Lippmann, explores how symbols are planted by authority figures to corral the public into their camp. While each author takes a different approach, each provides insights into a changing world and a route for an informed society to achieve better citizenship.

Due to modern times and technology, people can profit from unprofessional videos and careers without being famous or having a job. Andrew Ross discuses the idea of “free labor” in which the explosion of crowdsourcing, blogs, and YouTube channels have created a form of unfair labor practices. Digital technology is seen as the casual agent in the depletion of an official workforce. Since 2001, reality TV shows have been on the decline due to a boom in the idea of amateur “challenge” game shows. Reality televiosn shows have no positive outcomes for the people in it while the game shows create a reward for the winners. Ross argues, “ Celebrity you tubers enjoy the advantages of a more direct relationship with advertisers and other forms of revenue,

Bennett describes many instances in which people were humiliated because of online posts and then affected negatively in their daily lives. The “Star Wars Kid” and “Dog Poop Girl” were two of many harmed by this. She compares how people today feed on others’ humility compared to history where people

Social Media and 15 Minute Fame in 'I Know You from Somewhere' The short film "I Know You from Somewhere" by Andrew Fitzgerald, captures the effects of social media on society through a first person point of view. A young woman named Kathrene is searching for love, or at least someone to date and joins tinder. After the relationship goes south she finds her breakup has gone viral on the internet and even worse the subtitles given to the video inaccurately make her sound racist. It is the story of how one small misunderstanding turned into a massive uproar.

Grumpy Cat was found from a viral Reddit post; the Cat now has 7 million likes on Facebook and is getting a wax figure at Madame Tussauds. Today, it is as if anyone that merely goes viral is considered a celebrity. Turner discusses the “Taxonomies of Fame” which I feel have drastically changed since 1920’s when they first came about. With so many “underachieving” celebrities reaching the same level of fame as “achieving” celebrities it is hard to rank one higher than the other. Celebrities are sometimes considered as “A List, B List…etc.” but I feel now fans are identifying them by their source. For Instance many celebrities today are known as “Vine Famous or Twitter famous”. Although we still hold more achieved celebrities in a higher regard from the reading I perceive that a ranking or class system is becoming

In today’s internet savvy world, ‘Shaming’ has become an aspect of core-competency. And this aspect holds the power to destroy lives and confidences. This issue has become so large in the past few years that an entire book (“So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed”) has been written focusing on this very topic. But who is responsible for this chaos? Is it the person engaging in bad behavior or the person pulling the curtain off of the act? The answer depends on whom you ask. Social media when used properly has proved to be a powerful tool against the powerful organizations and influential people. Giving voice to pain of millions.