“A little message about how I feel in regards to all the “booby streamer” stuff escalating and info to the men streamers who think it hurts them. https://t.co/dOkk7gFCNK”
Hey guys, So in my Participatory Media class that I’m currently taking, we talk about whether you’re Cyperoptimist or a Cyperpessimist. I would consider myself a Cyberoptimist because I think that social media and technologies are beneficial in many ways. We can share information, network with one another and raise awareness and challenge traditional ways of doing things. This video is an example of that. This Twitch streamer calls to attention that slut-shaming “booby streamers” are not okay and he aims to educate the men or women (specifically men) who do. But overall, this has reached a lot of people through social medias and definitely is educating everyone.
In a reading for class, “Baym’s Chapter 2″, it raises questions about social media and technologies but then supports it, “The social concerns we voice when we discuss technology are concerns we would have even if there were no technology. They are questions of what it means to be truly yourself, to have meaningful relationships with others, and to be situated in a world of others who are very different from the people by whom we were raised” (48). I think that is correct, that even without technologies or social media, this worries we have are still ingrained in our minds. So its not technologies or social medias that are the culprits of spreading negative effects but our own doubts and fears. If we started to embrace the benefits of social medias and technologies, we would become a better society. We would be a society full of leaders that are empowering and fearless.