N.M Chau Dang

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|W10: Social Media Governance| How Social Media Platforms Take Action Against Cyber Bullying

Overall, web developers have designed a lot of rules and regulations regarding age restrictions and cyberbullying. But that cannot be solved completely because there are many users who have circumvented the law, or there are cases where AI can only work with machines, not having enough emotions like humans to understand which object is in need of help.

Facebook

Research from EU Kids Online and the London School of Economics on BBC indicated that half of 11 to 12-year-olds are on Facebook. Facebook relies on users to report posts to its "around the clock" global support teams to monitor its own site's content. However, there is no open data on how many reports are resolved successfully and how many abusive persons and pages are removed despite Facebook's assertions that it has increased its reporting openness with a user dashboard. Users are encouraged to block or unfriend anyone abusive on the network, which has a family safety center aimed at teens and parents.

Twitter

Dick Costolo, the former CEO of Twitter, wrote in a leaked email that the company "sucks at dealing with abuse and trolls."

The corporation has improved the reporting process for harassment and other content issues, including impersonation and the disclosure of private and personal information, since the incident.

To make matters worse, the site claims to use a combination of automatic and human responses in conducting investigations and enacting relevant measures. Twitter has stated that it will take action against abusers based on the gravity of the offense, ranging from forcing individual tweets to be deleted to suspending accounts. Yet, like Facebook, there is no publicly available data demonstrating the efficacy of its policies and reporting.

In 2015, Twitter opened a safety center where users could learn about being safe online, with parts geared at teens and parents. It has also recently partnered with the mental health organization Cycle Against Suicide to raise awareness about internet safety.

References

BBC, 2022. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-13129150.

Hern, A., 2015. Twitter CEO: We suck at dealing with trolls and abuse. The Guardian, [online] Available at: <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/feb/05/twitter-ceo-we-suck-dealing-with-trolls-abuse> [Accessed 9 April 2022].

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|W9: Slow Fashion Movement| How Vietnamese Brands Bring Natural Material Into Their Design

If sustainability is to be realized, materials must come from renewable sources, and the manufacturing process must be environmentally friendly. Because of the country's diverse ecosystem, which stretches from the north to the south, Vietnam is uniquely positioned to provide us with the green resources we need to embrace slow fashion.

Lãnh Mỹ A silk

Textiles made from Lãnh Mỹ A silk (also called Tân Châu silk) are produced mainly in An Giang Province in the country's north. Only the finest cocoon fibers are used to weave the exquisite silk. Artisans must use an organic dyeing procedure employing mặc nưa roughly 100 times to create its glossy jet-black shade (an ebony-colored fruit). There is a lengthy time frame for the eco-friendly procedure of washing and drying clothes, but it is safe for everyone involved.

"The Dreamers" collection, which has more than 100 pieces fashioned from Lãnh Mỹ A silk and produced by young designers with a desire to carry the fabric into the future, has lately been presented in various fashion events.

Famous fashion designer Nguyễn Công Trí showcased his works in the "No 9 Lụa" collection at Tokyo Fashion Week 16 to bring the unusual fabric into the international spotlight.

Lotus Silk

A naturally occurring floral fiber, Lotus silk is a highly sought-after and scarce commodity. Only a handful of craftspeople in the world can extract this natural flower fiber. That being said, creating this silk is not a walk in the park. For a single scarf, extracting enough lotus silk can take up to two months or more. In addition, Lotus silk can cost up to ten times as much as regular silk.

Lotus silk fabric can only be found in tiny quantities in Cambodia, Myanmar, and Vietnam, where it is being made on a much larger scale because Vietnam's national flower is the lotus, and this flower is grown widely across the country.

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|W8: Gaming| How Social Games Become Social

Examples of social video games include those that encourage or necessitate player participation and those that encourage or necessitate player-to-player interaction. It's possible for players to invite "neighbors," send presents, and visit their friends' playspaces. Asynchronous play with asymmetrical, loose-tie relationships is the norm in social games.

Social gaming is becoming a more and more widespread internet pastime. It has been anticipated that the value of the social gaming sector will expand from $2.1bn in 2010 to $4.8bn in 2016. It is expected that social gaming will become the most popular sort of mobile game download, which will be a significant driver of this increase. It is little wonder that usability professionals are growing increasingly interested in understanding social gaming’s dynamics.

At the time, most social game players do not appear to be engaging in long, intense periods of social gaming. Instead, studies show that people who play social games do so to unwind and divert themselves for brief periods using low-intensity activities. Another essential element within social gaming is the encouragement and support of players’ social interactions. In order to do this, an understanding of players’ diverse sorts of social gaming interactions is beneficial.

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|W7: Instagram Filters| Cheese in the Trap

In the world of online dating, beauty filters are popular, but also a nuisance.

When it comes to online dating, it makes sense to avoid using a filter on your face. A filtered face or altered figure may put potential suitors off. Likewise, it is not a good idea to show up for a first date looking drastically different from your online profile photo. Trying to fit in with today's social media-driven aesthetic standards is hard to blame, but applications that treat us like commodities in an online catalog make it much harder. Our increasingly visual society has significant social and technological impulses that encourage people to enhance their digital self-images.

The "firm, smooth, young, and skinny" standard is what beauty filters aim to get you closer to, but they also limit it down. Eyes appear more prominent and nose smaller with the use of the filters (the Kardashian-Jenner clan it is). In addition, filters can make skin appear lighter and brighter, but this can intensify already-existing colorism, as the MIT Technology Review noted in an article on the subject.

Retouching, traditionally the preserve of glossy magazine photos of celebrities, has become more accessible to the general public. You can do that in a few minutes, readily available. We have been using Instagram's filters to make our faces look better. A popular Snapchat puppy filters enlarged eyes thinned faces and airbrushed skin. The FaceApp and Facetune apps are free to use. "Beauty mode" on Huawei phones automatically filters a filter to your face. When you remove a filter and glance in the mirror, you see that you do not look anything like the improved version. Anxiety and discontent, and unhappiness increase as the distance between them expand.

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|W5: Digital citizenship| Platformization of Mobile Apps

Platformization: a concept to describe the growing integration of digital platforms’ business models, infrastructures, algorithms, and the practices around them into every facet of society (Casilli and Posada, 2019)

Multiplatform tools expand the scope of a single software life cycle by allowing the development process to be completed once and the final product to be deployed many times for each chosen platform.

However, adopting this development paradigm may have ramifications that go beyond simply choosing a tool. Changing the way things are done impacts a wide range of stages and actors in the software development cycle, including strategies, actions, and people. Of course, not all modifications would be beneficial, and even sticking to the conventional target-specific paradigm has several advantages that multiplatform frameworks cannot duplicate or match.

According to a survey conducted in October 2011, Android OS is used by 56 percent of smartphone users, while iOS is used by 28 percent; market share in the rest of the globe is also evenly spread.

Together with manufacturers and carriers, users are the essential market drivers for mobile applications, and their preferences shape the industry's future. Cross-platform development expands the possibilities of basic programs previously limited to a smaller group of users, increasing diversity and options for consumers to choose from an even more comprehensive range of applications.

Developer preferences will be crucial: they will need to establish a flexible software process that supports the needs of various targets, and they will be able to target their end products to a broader range of possible customers by using a single development process. Finally, by encouraging competition, platform owners will gain from the fact that consumers will be able to experience applications that were previously restricted to a specific scope and then migrate away from the competitor's platform.

Reference

Millennial Media, 2011. Scorecard for mobile advertising reach and targeting (S.M.A.R.T.™). Report for the 3rd Quarter, 2011. [online] Available at: <https://www.scribd.com/document/56217755/Millennial-Media-SMART-Q1-2011> [Accessed 6 April 2022].

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|W6: Body modification| Beauty is the Beast

People constantly suffer from the steady stream of commercials and the messages accompanying them, both subtle and overt. However, ads specifically target women who bear the brunt of this onslaught.

Today's women are bombarded with messages about what it means to be attractive. Countless advertisements for women of all ages, shapes, and sizes promote this elusively attractive picture. As a result, women's self-esteem has suffered due to society's use of photo-shopped and computer-enhanced models in commercials.

According to several recent studies, the media significantly impacts women's self-esteem. Marsha L. Richins and Peter H. Bloch's "You Look 'Mahvelous': The Pursuit of Beauty and the Marketing Concept" was one of the first studies to look at the impact of cosmetics on women. Understanding adornments, objects "used to enhance the appearance and gain associated social advantages" (e.g., the bound feet of Chinese ladies) was the subject of this research project (Bloch and Richins, 1992)

Concept of ideal beauty

The ideal of feminine beauty is a socially constructed belief that portrays physical appearance as the most important quality a woman can have (Chiodo, 2015), and as such, all women should do all they can to achieve and maintain this level of attractiveness. This ideology is founded on heteronormative ideals and mainly discriminates against women of all sexual orientations without inquiry or hesitation.

The edited beauty

One more thing worth considering is how ideal beauty is shown in advertisements as immaculate. A slim ideal of beauty is depicted in advertisements, which generally feature perfectly proportioned figures, pale complexion, and luxurious hair. Because these pictures have been normalized, society is impacted and wants to look like those depicted in advertisements.

Like, c'mon, could you ever be Natalie Portman? And hope for the miraculous use of Dior mascara to transfer your straight lashes in to those photoshopped falsies?

References

Bloch, P. and Richins, M., 1992. You look “mahvelous”: The pursuit of beauty and the marketing concept. Psychology and Marketing, 9(1), pp.3-15.

Chiodo, S., 2015. Ethical topicality of the ideal beauty. Lebenswelt. Aesthetics and Philosophy of Experience, 6.

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|W4: Reality TV| Spill the herstory tea of RPDR

RuPaul's Drag Race (RPDR) may appear as an unexpected subject for a collection of scholarly articles. Still, more than ever, the time has come to explore the program's social, cultural, and political consequences. So let's look it up. ✨

The show creates digital publics for everyday political talk

The discussions get the ideas of a public sphere fueled by citizens' real life experiences, and identity

Aside from the topic of challenges and the contestants' clothes or makeup, another issue that fans of the show frequently discuss is RuPaul's use of the phrase "You've got she-mail," which was used in the first few seasons of RPDR is a humorous combination of technology and cross-dressing, generated backlash among viewers, who saw the pun as derogatory and lacking sensitivity in understanding transgender social issues. As a result, the term was swiftly removed from use.

Provide insights into what truly matters to ordinary citizens

The conversations that surfaced on the net-based public sphere are often essential because they provide us not only informal but also research topics (races, immigration, discrimination, the LGBTQIA+ rights) (Brennan and Gudelunas, 2017).

The series frequently challenges homophobia and other types of intolerance and oppression, and it frequently includes landmarks in American LGBTQ social, cultural, and political history into the episodes. The Stonewall riots of 1969, for example; Jennie Livingston's documentary Paris Is Burning (which, in many ways, is the premise of RPDR); the 2010 repeal of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy, allowing gays, lesbians, and bisexuals to serve openly in the US Armed Forces; and the US Supreme Court's 2015 decision to grant same-sex couples the right to marry.

Refrences

Brennan, N. and Gudelunas, D., 2017. Drag Culture, Global Participation and RuPaul’s Drag Race. RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture, pp.1-11.

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tumblr as a digital community

Tumblr had its start as a digital platform for bloggers and other creative types to post, share, and interact with one another in a virtual space. Short-form blogs were published in this "microblogging" online community, and readers may comment, repost, and like them.

Tumblr serves as a platform for creatives to express themselves. The user's digital portfolio is built using the elements of audio, video, and text. To create a 'dashboard' that is unique to each user, it collects information about their favorite topics and hobbies, similar to how YouTube and Twitter do. Tumblr has its own ecosystem.

You can be more anonymous and fully embrace your passions on the site, as McCracken's (2020, p. 36-37) put it. Tumblr's community helps new users feel more comfortable sharing their ideas with other Tumblr members.

Recent research by Scolere, Prunchniewska, and Duffy found that influencers and media firms use Tumblr and other social media platforms to 'self-brand' and 'self -promote.' To "market themselves, their firms, and their creative products," these 'creative professionals' turned to the new media era. It is the "expectation that you have to be everywhere" that motivates (Scolere, Pruchniewska and Duffy, 2018). The research indicated that people utilize social networking platforms like Tumblr to showcase their talents, as well as their companies. Tumblr exploits the collective nature of like-minded individuals to share and connect with one another, hence it may be seen as a 'digital community'.

References

McCracken, A., Cho, A., Stein, L. and Hoch, I., 2020. a tumblr book: platform and cultures. 1st ed. Michigan: University of Michigan Press.

Scolere, L., Pruchniewska, U. and Duffy, B., 2018. Constructing the Platform-Specific Self-Brand: The Labor of Social Media Promotion. Social Media + Society, 4(3), p.4.