A world of technology where every picture, status, video, comment is seen worldwide. Technology where nothing is hidden, a world where companies judged our appearance online on social media but also create digital platforms to enhance your modern technology with new gadget or the next big social media app. However, you see people are targeted base on organizing principles such as gender, class or even race. Social media can be good when it connects you to your family members and friends you haven't see nor heard in a while but it can also be bad when your online image is tarnish by getting slut shamed or because of negative feedback from your own personal opinion online. Everything is judged from the videos or pictures you shared, tweet or even like gets seen. Advance technology is becoming more and more essential to our life which shapes our values within culture.
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Technology today is very important in this 21st century where business corporations and employers check your social media status and pictures to see if you are a good fit to work in their particular job field. Everything has to do with technology and maintaining a good or even perfect online image. Now let’s take a step back and think about when your social images online is not 100% perfect. Where exactly does that leave you? Well for one for example you get either slut shamed after your psycho ex post your halved naked pictures of you online then you see society understanding that that is expected of him to do so. Afterwards, you get the bitter end of the stick since you end up losing your love ones and ‘cyber bullying’ gets wrapped up into this.
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However, with digital platforms especially if you are searching up something like for example: beautiful, in your mind a sunset is something beautiful or even a field of flowers is considered to be beautiful but, instead when you get a picture outside of the norm. You then tend to question yourself in what the programmer was thinking when they was doing this? It’s not rocket science to put two and two together when problems like this comes up but it becomes controversial in that why these programmer thinking inside the box of the people they surround themselves with? Why not outside of the box for the rest of the environment and people outside their zone? You see problems like this arise in many companies which is why you hear often about jobs wanting a mixture of people from different ethnic, race and gender background so whatever digital platform is being used it targets a mixture of people and not one or two specific background.
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“Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light; I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
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Fairbairn (2015) explains to her audience that, “in addition to physical violence, sexual violence and psychological violence are included in each category of family, community, and state violence. Online violence could occur in all spheres, but perhaps falls most readily under community violence, including “sexual harassment, threats, and intimidation at work, in educational institutions and elsewhere.” Workplace is a very good example for this type of sexual violence, with women being in a workplace men’s understanding that a women should be at home seeing about the children. However, this is not the 19th century this is the 21st century where women are the providers and the head of the household also, men then target women of all race. You see this recurring theme of America stereotype culture for women being stay home moms, and men being the head of the household. Men targeting women for this is known as sexual harassment, even sexual assault, mostly sexual violence keeping in mind the definition of sexual violence. Social media online, a dangerous place to post, talk and send things since they have a tendency to come back to haunt you.
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Even with the idea of revenge porn, many would say it’s the women or girl’s fault for allowing this to happen but when the guy to be blamed for this type of behavior they don’t see it as blame instead they expect him to conduct in that behavior. It’s sad to see how society understanding in matters such as this pressing issue is reverse. Men are not supposed to be having the expectation of posting his ex on any social media site and women and girls cannot be blame for trusting a man. Which is what Noble is trying to get at in her video about digital platforms. Noble is a black woman in a century where feminist movement, and black lives matter is being known. However, Noble research shows credibility in when you are searching up black women pornography comes up. Instead of feminists movement pornography comes up with black women, well Noble didn’t like this especially since this came up with Google search.
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