Critical Participation in Social Media
https://thewire.in/media/watch-how-are-indias-most-marginalised-using-social-media-to-get-heard
Arfa Khanum Sherwani on the use of social media during the Shaheen Bagh and farmers’ movements in India. The Wire’s Senior Editor Arfa Khanum Sherwani was invited by the University of Michigan to speak in a symposium on ‘Social Media and Society in India’ in April 2023. She delivered a lecture on the use of social media during the Shaheen Bagh and farmers’ movements in India.
24/06/2023
This is one of the reasons we should not to just forward, or like or emoji information that we get on social media, but perhaps make a comment, highlight a portion or extract something.. and then forward or post it on our respective blogs or website.
Why do we remember more by reading in print vs. on a screen? https://bigthink.com/neuropsych/reading-memory/#Echobox=1663002712
The author of 'How We Read' Now, Naomi S. Baron explains.
Is comprehension the same whether a person reads a text onscreen or on paper? And are listening and viewing content as effective as reading the written word when covering the same material? The answers to both questions are often “no,”. as I discuss in my book “How We Read Now,” released in March 2021. The reasons relate to a variety of factors, including diminished concentration, an entertainment mindset and a tendency to multitask while consuming digital content...
important is mental perspective, and what reading researchers call a “shallowing hypothesis.” According to this theory, people approach digital texts with a mindset suited to casual social media, and devote less mental effort than when they are reading print.
Psychologists have demonstrated that when adults read news stories or transcripts of fiction, they remember more of the content than if they listen to identical pieces.
Researchers found similar results with university students reading an article versus listening to a podcast of the text. A related study confirms that students do more mind-wandering when listening to audio than when reading.
Is the Internet Giving Rise to New Forms of Altruism? https://mprcenter.org/review/internetdigitalaltruism/ Dana Klisanin, Ph.D.
Everyday digital altruism is the most common form of digital altruism. It is expedient and requires little more than the willingness to help another, e.g., clicking-to-donate or adding content to informational websites. Everyday digital altruism can also be said to include the act of contributing content with the goal of improving open-source software, and/or sharing valuable knowledge and information with others via educational and informational websites such as Wikipedia
Creative digital altruism involves the creation and maintenance of websites and social platforms that support digital altruism. It requires creativity, cooperation, and heightened moral engagement (e.g., creating and maintaining Care2.com). Although there is little chance that any one of these organizations will single-handedly end all of the inequalities and injustices they set out to address, there is no doubt that the Founders have 1) engaged in creative work towards fulfilling moral obligations, 2) would gladly accept their obsolescence (i.e., as altruists) if such a need should arise,3 3) have cooperated to achieve their aims
Co-creative digital altruism involves the creation of digital initiatives that support digital altruism that
1) are initiated at the systems level, i.e., corporate level, or similar
2) involve transdisciplinary creativity;
3) entail sustained moral engagement,
4) require cooperation that is transnational, transcorporate, transNGO, and transpersonal__meta-cooperation (e.g., creating and maintaining the World Community Grid)..
It is that the questions we ask, and the tools we use, determine the reality we experience −our worldview. While the dominant discourse continues to privilege investigations of the detrimental impacts of digital technology, this exploratory investigation privileged the positive aspects, specifically asking if the Internet is giving rise to new forms of altruism. In order to solve global problems humanity requires “a new turn in world-consciousness, new ways of monitoring technological innovations, new social inventions, and new forms of creative altruism”.
The Hero and the Internet: Exploring the Emergence of the Cyberhero Archetype by Dana Klisanin, Ph.D. https://mprcenter.org/review/cyberheroes2/
The archetype currently appears to embody a transpersonal sense of self. Importantly, 93.7 % of respondents recognize their lives as interconnected with all the life forms on our planet, and 84.4% of respondents believe that through using the Internet to help others, they are contributing to conditions that promote peace in the world. If this recognition and pro-active stance holds true across the larger population of individuals who are actively using the Internet to help other people, animals, and the environment, (the “Causes” community alone currently has a membership of 150 million), it is not an exaggeration to infer that they hold great potential to address global challenges, especially when acting in concert..
As these initiatives expand, more individuals will have the opportunity to join the collective in addressing a myriad of challenges—in doing so they will be embodying the cyberhero archetype. Their actions will affect change in larger systems, for example changing economic structures through consumer mandated corporate social responsibility.
.While this archetype requires further investigation, it is an important construct, for, in order to promote our higher natures, we must recognize and support acts of goodness, acts of compassion wherever we find them, including the Internet. Doing so means that rather than placing all of our attention on cyberbullying, we need to begin giving equal attention to the opposite action: cyberheroing.
How to stop haemorrhaging data on Facebook https://theconversation.com/how-to-stop-haemorrhaging-data-on-facebook-94511 April 6, 2018
Go to Location Services in Settings , and turn off or select “Never” for Facebook.
Content: Change “Who can see your future posts” and “Who can see the people and pages you follow” to “Only Friends”.
Settings called “Do you want search engines outside of Facebook to link to your profile?” Select No. scroll down and limit the audience for past posts.
Privacy Shortcuts – Limit who can see your personal information (date of birth, email address, phone number, place of birth if you provided it) to “Only Me”. Privacy Checkup shows you which apps have access to your data at present. Delete any that you don’t recognise or that are unnecessary.
Turning off “Facebook integration” altogether. This is optional. If you choose to do this, it will revoke permission for all previous apps, plugins, and websites that have access to your data.
It is best not to use Facebook to login to third party services.
We need to talk about the data we give freely of ourselves online and why it’s useful https://theconversation.com/we-need-to-talk-about-the-data-we-give-freely-of-ourselves-online-and-why-its-useful-93734
March 22, 2018
What was considered ethical and appropriate five or ten years ago (such as the savvy use of social media by the Obama presidential campaign) may be regarded as unacceptable in the future. This is just the natural process of technology evolving over time in response to public scrutiny. Facebook operates in a highly competitive environment, as do the academics and entrepreneurs who want to make use of social media data. Some will always be more willing than others to take calculated risks in an attempt to leapfrog the competition. The world of big data analysis is like the Wild West. If we don’t collect and analyse these data, then our competitors will (and they will get the grants, or the big contracts).
Subcategories
Conscious Media
This section aims to capture the knowledge, conversations, debates around Conscious Media and its various aspects. It is a work in progress article that invites contributors to add to it.
What is Conscious Media?
One of the practices in engaging critically and consciously with information and data is to be a discerning reader. This means that one needs to create their own ways of knowing that are based on a variety of sources that they trust. And hence, each one is invited to build their own understanding of Conscious Media after engaging with content around it.
Here's my attempt at articulating what it means to me:
One of the core critiques of the media culture today is the hyper-individualism that has made the process of media engagement isolated. The new media is working against its own intent of what it set out to do: Connect people. Add to it the cacophony of information overload, all the digital noise that hampers the sense-making capacity of an individual. Conscious Media practices involve reclaiming one's sense-making process, building awareness about one's consciousness while engaging with the media, collectivisng the process of media consumption and creation. (see article by Dana Klisanin in this section)
There is another sense of Conscious Media, which is part of the Slow Movement Culture, which takes its cues from these same principles of mindfulness, connection and community. (check out section of Slow Movement.)