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Final Project - Chauveau Audrey
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The over surveillance on marginal internet users is also a kind of social oppression. Marginal internet users feel anxious and unsafe about the surveillance of government and other authorities; however, they do not have many chances and rights to defend their privacy during the process of using the broadband technology. In fact, marginal internet users just get the access to technology information and the skills of using it. Dominant authorities do not give marginal internet users the opportunity to understand how the information technology network work and “the way others—employers, banks, learning institutions, law enforcement, retailers, and more—interact with marginal internet users” (14). For marginal internet users, their submissive and oppressive roles in digital world make them get more harm rather than benefits from broadband technology. Their low digital literacy and limited technology skills make them fail to identify digital harm targeted at them.
Socially Marginalized Users & A Hallmark of Neo-liberalism
For our last official class of the semester, we discussed the linkage of privacy and digital self-fashioning. In a 2013 federal study, it shows that more than two-thirds of the American population use smartphones. Out of these Americans, 64% are adults. Another recent study conducted by the Pew Research Center, it shows that 19% of American rely on smartphones and are ‘smartphone dependent’. We are currently living in a society where smartphones truly rule what we have access to, even the most recent news and events on the international level. However, those who do not have the privilege of owning smartphones or lack the access to the world wide web are considered to be socially marginalized users. The most profoundly marginalized hierarchy ranges from race to class to gender, then to skill level interestingly enough. This skill level will eventually determine their access to education. In class, we discussed how a misunderstanding of this chain of data collection can lead to serious cases such as personal theft. We mentioned the idea of the terms and conditions provided by each website each time you want to make a purchase, or created a user login, etc. These Terms & Conditions are often so long and filled with confusing jargon to the average user, I do not even know one person who truly engages with the presented text. This lack of education and language of personal responsibility is essentially what causes the scams in the first place. The internet has evidently become a new human right being that is a tool for granting social access.
Today, I would like to talk about something that really stroke me when I arrived in the US. I wanted to buy some girls products as tampons, and hygienic towels. But then I saw the price of it. It was really very expensive. But can I go without it? Absolutely not. I know that in France, feminists fought against something called the ‘Pink Tax’. It is a tax that is only applied on feminine products, such as makeup remover, razors, hygienic towels and so forth. But then I looked at such products and actually it was not only tampons and hygienic towels, but every single product that is destined to women is expensive. I talked about that to my roommates then because they are also foreigners. They told me that they were also shocked by the prices. I think that is it crazy that in such a developed country women have to pay so much just to be able to live as any other normal women. I know that a campaign to provide tampons and towels was launched at the beginning of the year. It think that it was destined to homeless women. I understand now why such campaign are launch but I have to say that the word hasn’t been very well relied. And I think it shows once again the discrimination that is being done towards women.
A cinq jours de l'élection, le concours Miss France fait toujours polémique chez les féministes. Pour l'association Osez le féminisme, le concours ...
This article is about the French national miss pageant. It is going to be broadcast on Saturday. I have been watching this contest since I am very little and I have to say that what those feminists denounce in this article is true. The contest is very old and things haven’t changed a lot. It is all about the physic and not about being smart or being talented. The manager of the contest defends herself by saying that today, the miss have to pass a test to be allowed to continue to run for the title. Indeed, I did the test, and I have to say that it is not complicated. What kind of example does it give to five years old girls who are watching this with their parents? That being pretty is the only thing that matters? More, this pageant is also about competition. Thus, girls have to stay together for a month also they know that only one of them will be chosen at the end. I think that it also conveys the idea that girls can have no friend. Because competition is everywhere. I am sure than unconsciously it has an impact on social relationship between girls. In France it is forbidden, but I know that in the US, this kind of contests are also adapted to little girls. In France, it has been forbidden because of the violence of it.
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This video shows different type of things. We are told about the ever lasting problem of women trying to be as magazines tell them to be, but it is also about race and self-esteem. Victoria’s secret is a big company which sells underwear. Every year a show is organized and the most popular models of the moment can walk wearing those expensive panties. On the other hand, BuzzFeed, a news website decided to create its own fashion show to denounce the fact that what we are being shown is no the reality. First, we should talk about the race. Almost every girl in this show are white. So there we have a race problem. Second, because they are model, they are very skinny. And thus, it poses a problem. BuzzFeed, I think wanted to denounce the fat-shamming of women. Finally, this show was supposed to give women, who do not feel confident, a chance to see that they worth something, and that even though they do not look like models, they worth something. It was a way to say to all the girls around the world that it is ok not to look like the girls from the magazines and that they should embrace who they are.
Final Blog Post and Reflection
As our semester comes to a close, I want to take this opportunity to discuss how this class has shed light on our current intimate relationship with the media.
Throughout this semester we have explored a multitude of topics from hacking to body positivity. Of all that we have learned, I have come to understand that how we use social media often controls our perception, both positively and negatively. It is up to us to be aware of this and understand how imbedded social constructions of race, gender, class, etc. are in all aspect of our lives. Once we recognize these areas, we can strive for social change. We are at a pivotal point in our lives as young students readying ourselves for the “real world.” Our world, our society here in the United States is all at pivotal points of change and it is up to us to make the difference. We can be the generation of change and if this class taught me anything, it taught me that this is possible.
For many members of Generation Z, opening up about teen struggles is easier to do online than off.
All of these articles that I have posted about I have not searched for but simply happened across in my daily internet life. They just seem to appear when I need them (or our class discussions make me more aware of them). This one however, I feel has been the most relevant to our discussions. We talked one week about how internet sites and apps have created spaces for marginalized groups. For them to express themselves, to come together, and more. And this article, full of real stories is just perfect.
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