Peyton's Blog

Lit review link - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Kazgf3BwzjCgqe9Dgs7mS972dBF54LAHCHEJZC9vJAY/edit?usp=sharing

 Here are links to the data I have collected!! Participant 1 - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kXzhKBEDBH6w-FvydmG1ojVtW5nVR-p3g60tNrea2q8/edit?usp=sharing Participant 2 - https://docs.google.com/document/d/133enMqGS0IiMxRh-cWR5rif1NZmPEKO0MceinMp9G1A/edit?usp=sharing Participant 3 - https://docs.google.com/document/d/17fdFDck61rZojoDwLwAKrHylJKwb120EcWLemJdVxOs/edit?usp=sharing

 HELLOOO EVERYBODY!!!! I am back to bring you one last blog post for this semester!! While I am glad that this is the last time I have to write a blog post for this class, I am going to miss talking to you guys every unit. What I am going to talk to you guys about today is a little harder to talk about. A lot of people would probably call it a little controversial, too. So, at this time, you are probably wondering what this topic is and how bad it could be. Well, I am going to be talking about politics and social media. More specifically, how social media impacts democracy. So for this blog post, I will be mainly talking about how Facebook has impacted modern democracy and if democracy is now broken, then can it be fixed again? From the discussions we have had in my class, nobody could really explain if they thought social media did have an impact. When we began unpacking why we could not give an answer, we  discovered that a majority of my classmates did not really keep up wi...

  Because many psychologists currently believe there is no best way to see if a reaction is authentic or credible, I decided to look at how people decide if a reactor is authentic or not. I first chose my two reactors and two of their reaction videos. I chose my two reactors based on the amount of followers they had and if I had already seen them before. Follower count was important because it determines how popular the reactor is and if they are able to monetize their videos. The two channels I picked have over 10,000 subscribers (which only about 3.4 percent of channels have) and according to the YouTube Partnership Program, channels have to have at least 1,000 subscribers to potentially monetize videos. The two YouTuber’s I chose are AJayII (who reacts to music) and Imon_Snow (who reacts to movies and TV shows). When deciding which videos to react to, I decided to go with their first ever reaction videos and their most popular ones. I chose the first video because I wanted my pa...

 Hello to everyone who is currently reading this blog post!! It has felt like forever! NOT! I am back again to share the newest things I have been learning in class. If you have read my last post, you will see that we talked about how addicted people are to their phones and discussed Zomorodi's view on why it is their fault. We also talked about Williams' thoughts on why he believes tech companies are responsible for people becoming addicted. But this time around, we discussed Rob Walker's views, which are exactly the same as Manoush Zomorodi's views. To understand his perspective, I completed one last challenge. Then, my whole class had to create a social media/phone challenge that pushes people to think more like James Williams and less like Zomorodi and Walker. For the last challenge I had to complete, I had to choose between five different challenges. The five challenges came from Walker's book,  The Art of Noticing . The first challenge from this selection is c...

 Hey everyone!!!! Sorry it took so long. I was on spring break and attempting to actually take a break from school work. But I was partially successful. Over my break, I was tasked to complete a series of social media challenges. So it was not too hard of homework over the break, but it was something that I had to think about. Overall, I had a good restful spring break and now I am ready to be back and talk with all of you! So for this post, I am going to explain what we talked about in class, what challenges I attempted, and my results from the attempted challenges. At the start of this unit, we discussed Manoush Zomorodi's and James Williams' theories that people are addicted and obsessed with their phones. Zomorodi believes that when we are bored, we automatically go to our phones, so any free time we have will be spent on our phones. Williams' believes that technology competes to capture our attention.  One of these people blame the individual for becoming obsessed with...