tIn the article, Sustaining Critical Literacies in the Digital Information Age: The Rhetoric of Sharing, Prosumerism, and Digital Algorithmic Surveillance. Social media and its usagage/growth were widely talked about. Beginning in 2004 with Friendster, a social medial tool much like Facebook took over. This was what began as the third wave of Prosumerism which is known as the information age. Compared to the previous waves, the information age was set more on doing things yourself, using the tools of the internet to assist and guide you.
Another topic disscussed in the reading was the idea of a Digital Algorithmic Surveillance, which is basically what cookies are on your computer. Every action you perform on the internet leaves a digital footprint, and that digital footprint gets recognized and picked up by this algorithm. After this happens, you will start to see ads pop that are tailored made to what you were just looking at, or even discussing in person or over the phone/text!
In the video, the idea of false beliefs was brought up. False beliefs are essentially stretched out truths that get further and further miscontrued by the media. Connecting this to social media, it can turn the world into a dangerous place. If people are not careful they can be easily influenced into believing something that isn’t even true.
In this post, I used visual and spatial. For visual, I used the above gif because I feel it best represents my thoughts when I see something fabricated on the news. For spatial, I used paragraphs to separate each thought.
