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Date: Tuesday, 10 November

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This is my third #VideoBlog about Hashtag Activism Challeng, which i choose:

#MAAD & #white_Ribbon

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The Krone Virus Crisis has not been easy for the world and Oman in particular. In addition, it caused the total closure of some shops, which led to huge losses.

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Summary of the academic reading article about: Beyond the hashtag: Circumventing content moderation on social media

Written by: Jumana Alqasmi (110887), Issa Alsubhi (106250)

Date: November 4, 2018

About the article:

Name of the journal: new media & society.

Written by: “Ysabel Gerrard”.

Department of Sociological Studies, The University of Sheffield, Northumberland Road, Sheffield S10 2TU, UK.

First Published: May 28, 2018.

Introduction:

Social media companies encourage their users to share content about themselves. They moderate problematic posts when they face public pressures, like accusations that they host pro-eating disorder pro-ED content.

Pro-ED communities are a long-standing societal concern. Pro-ED is to promote an eating disorder “as a ‘lifestyle choice’ rather than as a ‘disease’, thus challenging medical and psychiatric conceptualizations which position the ‘sufferer’ as passive and helpless”.

The relationship between social media and eating disorders has become more important in recent years. For that, By 2012 Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr announced to minimize the spread of pro-ED content. These platforms enforce their rules in fairly similar ways, all three began to issue public service announcements (PSAs) when users search for troubling hashtags, like #proana (pro-anorexia) and #thinspiration, and Instagram began to block the results of certain hashtag searches.

This article explores how the circumvention of hashtag moderation in online pro-ED communities:

1- Privileging the hashtag in a pro-eating disorder problem.

2- Finding untagged pro-ED content on Instagram and Tumblr:

3- Hiding in plain sight: signaling the pro-ED user base.

4- Trending in anorexia this week: Platforms as recommendation systems.

Privileging the hashtag in a pro-eating disorder problem:

Platforms used hashtags as a mechanism through which to police problematic posts because:

1- Hashtags are perhaps the most visible form of social media communication.

2- Connecting content between users “who have no preexisting follower/followee relationship.

3- Hashtags’ visibility makes them distinct from other forms of social media engagement such as liking and commenting.

All of Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr’s user base is a difficult, perhaps impossible task for both human content moderators and platforms’ automated moderation mechanisms. However, there are tools to algorithmically tag visual imagery on social media, but these methods are notoriously unreliable.

For example, on its Community Guidelines Pinterest states that it will “remove anything that promotes self-harm”. It gives an example of an image that would be acceptable, claiming “It’s okay because the focus is on nutrition and fitness.” The image’s overlaid text “It’s not a diet, it’s a way of life. Therefore, by including hashtags in a post, users are telling platforms—intentionally or otherwise—what the post is about.

In the computer sciences, Chancellor et al. (2016) have identified a range of hashtags that Instagram users coined to work around the platform’s hashtag ban (e.g. #thighgap became #thyghgapp), and Moreno et al. (2016) have found a number of deliberately ambiguous non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) tags on Instagram, like #secretsociety123ness.

Finding untagged pro-ED content on Instagram and Tumblr:

There are two ways to find new content on Instagram and Tumblr (Hashtags and keywords) and this led to over reliance on tagged data. It is hard to find untagged pro-ED content because of ethical considerations for researching data and user’s desire to minimize their visibility in a given topic.

Using search engine on Instagram to search for top posts, people, tags, and places will give you four main ways:

1- Semi-permanent blocks (no tagged content).

2- New posts moderated (top posts).

3- No posts yet (error message).

4- Public Service Announcements (PSAs).

There are other routes to access to pro-ED content by innovative methodological approach.

Instagram does not block access to searches for top posts, it return search result for users whose accounts following pro-ED terms. Over 2 week’s period of manually coded 1612 public accounts, finding that 561 accounts include hashtags and 1051 without. From these result he found that hashtags are not an important communicative tool.

Tumblr is different in content moderation, it return content for all pro-ED searches. The user can scroll the PSA to view, but Tumblr does not issues PSA.

If you follow certain keywords the platform lets users follow certain topics, and it is similar to Instagram Explore Function. He identified and analyzed 1000 Tumblr post and he found that 218 posts include hashtags and 782 without. In addition, it is again the result shows that hashtags not important.

The kind of moderation on Instagram and Tumblr are trying to make such content unsearchable, but pro-ED users are able to navigate platforms on all sorts of ways and know how to break the rules.

Hiding in plain sight: signaling the pro-ED user base:

Users who are conscious about content moderation must go beyond the hashtag to find new ways of being visible to those who they wish to be seen by. Donath’s signaling theory which state that: “people often rely on signals rather than directly observable traits to learn about each other” is useful for exploring how users identify content, but it takes time to learn how it read these subtle signals.

Many users are aware that pro-ED content is a target for moderation, and one of the most obvious ways to deflect attention is using non-hashtags. Biographies, which disavow pro-ED identities to reassure moderators and non-in-group users that their accounts are unproblematic. Because pro-ED hashtags are scrutinized, many people have developed a set of non-tagged signals.

It is difficult to uncover the hidden meanings behind these signals in the absence of hashtags. Pro-ED users understand that this interpretive work takes time for those who are not knowledgeable, which might explain why they do not use hashtags.

Pro-ED users are unwelcome on this programs and society. Therefore, they use phrases such as my dataset was “not-pro-anything” or “not promoting anything,” which means that they do not affiliate with a pro-ED identity.

Trending in anorexia this week: Platforms as recommendation systems:

The hashtag moderation is an ineffective intervention into pro-ED communities, this is because social media users circumvent it and part of the work of platforms is to recommend content to their users. However, users can instead simply enact a pro-ED identity on social media to see this kind of content. While they are often aware of and are not wholly conditioned by algorithms. However, only by liking their posts platforms presented with pro-ED content through algorithmically organized in Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr feeds, and via email. All three platforms have recommendation algorithms, they encourage different forms of communication from their users, affecting how content is seen and experienced.

Pinterest:

When a user finds an image on the Pinterest app, they can scroll down the page to view other recommended content. The platform also suggests alternative yet related phrases that users might want to search for or ideas you might love. It is algorithmically aligning pro-ED imagery with discourses like death, suicide and self-harm. The claims to remove anything that promotes self-harm, this reveals an intimate connection between platforms’ public-facing policies and closed codes. In addition, it recommended content through email updates.

Instagram:

Allows users to save pro-ED content to her saved posts folder, without sending notifications to the poster. After began saving things, Instagram’s Explore tab flooded with other pro-ED content. This form of hashtag moderation appears to be designed to protect new users who are at risk of joining pro-ED and other such networks, rather than those who are already embedded within them. Instagram categorizes the ‘embrace of anorexia, bulimia, or other eating disorders’ as a form of self- harm.

Tumblr:

Aligns blogs that actively promote self-harm with blogs that glorify or promote anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders.

Concluding remarks:

Pro-ED users circumvent mediator in putting issues online by using non-hashtags to escape from restrictions. The results tell us that the members of the pro-ED community are savvy, and they have devised a set of signals to indicate their contents and identities without using hashtags.

Instagram put a logic to protect:

1- New users from joining pro-ED.

2- Users who are curious.

3- Users who still use search engines to find new contents.

The analysis reveals the complexities of the “pro-ED” identity who use a set of non-pro speeches and these circumvention techniques that define this community of users. Therefore, perhaps it is not possible to police ED-related content in a systematic way.

The hashtags become the way of seeing socio-technical phenomenon, but not it is the way that people interact with the topic.

Social media can provide us with a rich source of knowledge and it is include unaddressed issues:

1- Analyses of users’ comments on pro-ED posts.

2- A cross-platform analysis to understand any socio-technical variation between different pro-ED cultures.

3- Analyses of pro-ED users’ self-representations, which are often enacted pseudonymously.

Future research on pro-ED should move away from a reliance on tagged datasets and search through analyzing untagged posts.

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“Evaluate all my work in Tumblr”

Written by: Fatema Al-Hadabi

ID : u111243

Nov 27, 2018

Number of words : 383

There is a strong correlation between all the topics that we have written about, which is; each issue is a motive or reason for the appearance of the other issue (ie, impact and influence). For example, the lack of discussion of traditional media in some issues makes some influential people talk about them in the Social media and achieve more popular among the audience.

However, all these topics revolve around one axis, which is the contribution of social media in highlighting the issue in terms of its impact and its causes..ie.

In This blog I will evaluate the working mechanism and content strategy that I followed when I am writing:

-          At the beginning, I always support my ideas and thought with evidence from the internet. There was a lack of statistical evidence to support my point of view although there are many shared evidences and facts from life. Then I followed another method to prove and analyzed the topic from a personal perspective and evidence of real life. Therefore, I become able to express my idea in a better way. For example, how social media contribute to social support

 -          I usually wrote my points of view at the conclusion, but I noticed the difference when I put them in the introduction. This difference has influenced the quality of the topic and writing. Writing the point of view in the introduction gives more strength and meaning to the topic, gives smooth and clear evidence and understanding and direction of topic.

-          As for the content of the writing, I dealt with topics in general, there were no specific angles but after that I changed the mechanism and style of my writing. I have followed one strategy to address the subject from one angle so that it is easier for me to talk about the issue and its research in depth.

-          In regard to the different points, I discussed them in the subject and found that they were complementary to the series of subjects and compatible and non-contradictory among them.

-          There are some topics I have discussed well and appropriately and some topics I could discuss better, such as the use of personal data.

-          All topics developed my writing by using strong vocabulary and creative way of analytical thinking.

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Issues discussed on social media but ignored by the mainstream media

Name: Muhallab Juma Alamri

ID: 106697

Date: 13 of NOV 2018

Number of words : 289

There is no society without problems that may increase or diminish according to their nature. Some may think that it is immune to social problems as long as it is safe, but social problems are intertwined and sequenced and must reach every individual in a picture if these problems are not addressed from the moment of their inception without negligence or negligence.

Media awareness, when dealing with an issue, must believe intentions without exaggerating or exaggerating or trying to stir in the wrong place, the owner of the problem in itself does not seek excitement but seeks to solve the problem.

But there are also issues that are not addressed by the media and are addressed only when these issues occur

Example: drainage of water during the rain .. This is a very big problem, especially in the Arab world, but the media does not address it, but the circulation between people and talk about when it actually occurs

Perhaps because there is little rain in the Arab world and people forget this problem.

There are also political issues and corruption issues, but the media does not address them or even talk about them.

For political reasons related to the State's own policy to ensure that the country is not intimidated and seditious.

It is certain that there is no media without a media policy that guides, leads and reaches the safety of the media experts in each country in order to prevent media diversions

The basic social responsibility of the media is to maintain the security and social peace of the society and its members, and to keep away from all the thorny issues and uncertainties that can cause confusion in the street and among the members of society.

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Analyze favorite characters through content analysis

Written by: Khaled Al Mashaykhi

ID:105401

Date: October 23-2018

Number of words:289

Ali Najem (born March 25, 1989) is a Kuwaiti radio personality who is producer and director of FM Radio station in Kuwait.

Ali Najm is one of the most influential Kuwaiti media figures who has earned a good reputation. He is a radio announcer for Marina Radio for a long time and provides joyful and colorful content in the Instagram (alinajem) application. It has 2.5m on Instagram.

Now, Marina Radio is one of the best radio stations in Al-Hweet and the Arabian Gulf in the content industry and offers messages to the public in an innovative way. The radio presents the social or cultural issues that the community or people are interested in and connects to their personal lives, clear language and music, motivational voice.

His style in the modern is not manufactured, but be thoughtful and easy to reach up to all segments of society and in his way and friendly to everyone.

Always use his account in Instagram in the issues of community and important tasks and solutions that make most people love it for easy language and good vocabulary that enter the heart quickly.

People's reactions to comments are evidence that what they share has to do with their mentality and age.

In the end, everyone should be careful in choosing who wants to follow them because they are changing the thought and behavior of a person in their style and content. Some of them have meaningful content and the other content is bad. We have to think before watching them.

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Misleading ADS with guaranteed results or clinical studies.

Written by: Muzna Alhadi

ID:u112796

Tue: 25, Sep, 2018

The Advertisers use all available methods to attract consumers to buy their products. It has come to endanger the health of others.

For two years Dannon has been touting Activia and DanActive yogurt products as "clinically" and "scientifically" proven to regulate digestion and boost immune systems. The company even launched a glossy TV ad campaign featuring actress Jamie Lee Curtis, who calls the yogurt "tasty."

"This was a disingenuous advertising campaign that promised something that hasn't been proven," Dr. Roshini Rajapaksa,, a gastroenterologist, told ABC News.

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/dannon-settles-lawsuit/story?id=9950269

The patient always tries to find any treatment that saves him from pain even if it is the most expensive. With the development of medicine and the discovery of many drugs but there are diseases that doctors have not reached a final treatment for it Such as cancer, AIDS and diabetes. On the other hand, we see misleading ads claiming to cure such diseases radically. For example spread adv. in the Gulf States about the availability of natural herbal remedies to eliminate cancer and without complications.

There are misleading ads that mislead people with guaranteed and unrealistic results. This is illustrated by the claim that the effect of the product will appear in a very short period of time Such as skin whitening creams ads that illusion women it can lighten their skin in days. These ads also confirms that it has no side effects even though they contain chemicals.

New Balance the Boston-based sneaker company of false advertising in claiming its toning walking shoes burned more calories, increase muscle activation and improved health.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/29/new-balance-toning-shoe-settlement_n_1839537.html

#mass4025 #SQURTV #Fall18 #broadcasting

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Young people and your identity in a global digitalised world.

Name: Abdullmajeed alshuaili.

ID: 112321

Date: October 2, 2018

Number of words: 300

 When media outlets spread widely, they influenced people, their personality and their way of life.

It is easy to infer your personality from the "admiration" you place on a publication, photo, or news on social networking sites or your post. To re-tweet a photo or publication, it can reveal the details of many of the individual's personal characteristics, As well as religious, political and social views. So social networking sites are able to analyze personality and disclose details in the user's personality.

Of course, my simple view of the preferences of anyone I know on a social networking site can give me additional information about that person's identity, hobbies, interests and tendencies. Some people can not be judged by the means of communication, he considers these platforms is only a means of communication and knowledge of civilizations and cultures. These people adhere to their culture and can not be influenced by alien cultures and their methods and lifestyle. This is a clear example of non-dependency and influenced by the famous social media. So there are two types of people as we mentioned before. So some people find it uses accounts to attribute to itself and put the name and image of a famous person and address people from this account to gain power in the talk and opinion through the reputation of this famous person. But in fact this person is shy and unable to face people face to face and may be lonely. Social media sometimes affect the process of building a personality, providing information, facts, news, facts, ideas and opinions to make people aware of certain subjects of behavior while providing  entertainment. But in some cases can not judge a person through the means of communication is not to change his lifestyle and behavior as a result of follow-up to these means.