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Posted by Eliza Meketon in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on
How are people using social media as a way of fighting against the
North Dakota Access Pipeline?
People are promoting awareness, which in turn helps get others to join the cause and come and protest. Activist members are also using social media as a way to get viewers to write to their government officials, and then get them to lobby against the oil company so they can no longer carry out their plan to build a pipeline through sacred burial ground, while simultaneously polluting the Sioux Tribe's main source of water. Hashtags have played such an important role in launching this cause, mostly because social media directs people to places that show solidarity with Standing rock, such as buying things to protect the protesters from the bitter cold off an Amazon wish list made by the Standing Rock Medic and Healer Council, or donating to the Sioux fund for legal council. Even though I think social media has a lot of flaws, it has been very inspiring to be able to see how the community has been able to interact and enlighten one another on the injustices that have been committed by the oil companies from across the country. Lately we have been told to focus on are differences, but social media has allowed us to come together and show that we do not stand for injustice or the pollution of our basic human rights.

Hashtags that have been used during this environmental justice event

After doing some research some of the most common hashtags that has been used is #NoDAPL, #standingrock, #standingwithstandingrock, and #waterislife. While there are probably hundreds more, these seem to surface the most.

Are these methods truly effective?
Social media is constantly being updated and viewed by people across the globe and it’s users range from a wide spectrum of ages. No longer are teens and young adults the only slaves to social media. I think especially since our presidential nominees started using it as a way to connect to younger audiences, it has gotten older generations to join in on the virtual conversation. Meaning your grandmother is as avid a user as you are now. I think social media is such a great platform for activist groups because now they can communicate with a bigger audience and people can show support much easier than in previous years. For a long time signing some petition was thought to be the only way to show your support for something, but now it is so much deeper than that. Today, people have such a variety of options. They can donate money to support protesters, they can actually go out and protest, they can call write a letter to the president voicing concern and outrage over the pipeline, they can spread awareness by telling friends to go look up the issue, or they can tweet and get other people to join the movement, the options are endless, all these options make this form of promotion and campaigning so effective. People don’t like feeling like they are being forced to do something. When they are given the option to put in as little effort as possible, while feeling all the glory that being a “good” person comes with. I think this is evident by seeing just how many celebrities have joined the movement. Now I am not saying all of them are doing this for publicity, but it is definitely a perk. This is the invisible hand at its finest, i.e the way in which one's individual pursuit of self-interest can lead to good results for society as a whole.
How do you define environmental justice 
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      what role does social media have in fighting against it                                                                                 

According to the Environmental Protection Agency “Environmental justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.” There has been environmental injustice for as long as there has been people. In recent years however, there has been an explosion of environmental activism due to the ever growing popularity of social media platforms, such as Twitter, Facebook, Snapchat, and Instagram. Now people can just snap a picture of them holding a protest sign and people will understand the message they are trying to get across. Showing solidarity with a cause is just so much easier due to the introduction of hashtags. People can just type in the #standingwithstandingrock with a picture of a drop of oil and they have done their activists duty for the day. Also causes can go viral a whole lot easier than let's say fifty years ago. Back then if you wanted to get a cause off the ground and you wanted to organize a protest, the only way you could reach out to people is by word of mouth or by passing out flyers. Now you could just make a well worded post, and share it with family and friends, they then share it with their family and friends, and soon the cause has blown up everyone's feed. It is almost inescapable. Causes now have a following and communities dedicated to raising awareness. Before people could just throw away flyers or ignore the weirdos on the sidewalk yelling at them to save some endangered animal with a weird name. There is just too hefty of a price to pay if you don’t want to go on social media. You essentially have two choices, be bombarded with whatever people want you to be interested in or be completely in the dark on what is going on society and the thing people are most likely to be discussing at school or work the next day. While it may be annoying to have every little cause someone deems important constantly blowing up your feed, it is necessary to have people be so addicted to this staple in our current culture. Without it, people wouldn’t be given the opportunity to take a second, third, fourth, or fifth glance, at a cause because they dismissed the first time around. While this is not directly aimed at environmental justice, it has everything in the world to do with it. I am not going to lie, it is extremely hard to get people interested in something that may not directly have an effect on them, that is not a insulation on the lack of care people have for one another, but a comment on how people need a push when it comes to justice of any kind. We need to see other people getting involved in order to know it is the thing will make us more socially accepted in society, I think what it truly comes down to is we want to fit in, it is easier to see that all our friends have joined in with supporting a cause when all of them have the #NoDAPL as their profile picture rather than seeing the third person in a row throw out the Stand Rock flyer they just received.

How can we improve upon this strategy?


Frankly, I believe the number one problem with launching causes purely on social media, is that people look to improper sources for information. You could have a properly vetted source, someone who has been on the front-lines, is an organizer of events and protests, as well as done some personal research, and can be classified as an expert on the cause. Then you could have someone who just joined because yesterday, still has very little understanding of the deeper meaning behind the cause, is actually just doing it to get some pictures for Instagram, but takes great pictures, uses snappy phrases, and gets the group a lot followers on social media. Which person is worth more to the cause? Someone who knows all the facts and is truly dedicated to getting the cause off the ground, or someone who brings a lot of attention to the activist group, but under false pretenses, and incorrect facts? Social media has blurred the lines on what's ok and not ok to say, it is not only completely new, but pretty much unregulated territory. This makes it that much more difficult for people who are educated on the issues and are trying to deliver the facts for viewers trying to join the cause who are getting turned off by people spewing nothing but dishonesty and garbage.

            

                                    Summary and impression on the Democracy Now article


The article “Norway's Largest Bank Sells Assets in Dakota Access Pipeline Company” was about how a very important and large Norwegian bank is pulling 3.5 billion dollars worth of assets in the companies that are behind the North Dakota Access Pipeline. This comes as no surprise due to the the deadlines being missed by the Energy Transfer Partners and the new projected deadlines being nowhere near close to the original finish date. This has lead to some speculation on whether the oil companies will pull out on their contract with the pipeline companies.There is even talk of canceling the project entirely. I honestly believe this was all inevitable. You can’t have so much opposition to a project and not run into some snafus. With all the negative press the protesters have been getting, it is no wonder why being in cahoots with the pipeline company might not be the best image booster. With all the demonstrators doing whatever they can to delay the pipeline construction, it only makes sense that the builders would not meet deadlines.

As previously mentioned this is the invisible hand at it’s best. Companies/businesses are amoral, but this kind of works in society’s favor due to the fact that you only get people to invest or purchase your product is by getting them to like your company and think that your product is good. People invest/buy with their gut, brains are great but we are creatures that have had millions of years of evolution behind us, and the only way we have gotten to where we are today is because of instincts. They have allowed us to survive in all types of deadly situations. Even though we no longer have to fight off savage animals, instincts help us distinguish the beasts from the average joe. Companies understand that and even though installing a pipeline might make the company might sound like a smart investment in the future, it is costing them customers now. The payout isn’t worth the cost of losing so many customers. If they don’t see themselves getting out what they are putting in, it just doesn’t make the financial sense to continue with this money pit of a project.

                                                                                                                             

How America should react after the recent DAPL Divestment

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As well as how America's people and government can work to

create an environmentally just society

I think the American people need to probe deeper into the situation going on and ask themselves if desecrating ancient burial grounds and possibly polluting an already marginalized group’s main water supply, is worth getting an outdated source of energy. Big surprise it is not! To be honest, if I have had no previous knowledge of this situation and someone handed me the story without mentioning to many specifics, I would instantly think this happened at the very most four decades ago, not in 2016! This is honestly disgusting and anyone who doesn't understand why, needs to retake some history classes because this exactly why we have them, to remind us of past events so we don’t repeat them.

Too many groups of people have been completely tossed aside by the American government especially Native Americans, who from day one have been massacred, robbed, and utterly deprived of human dignity and it absolutely needs to stop. Once you step foot onto American soil you deserve the rights that were fought and died for by our founding fathers, who understood what it felt like to be denied civil liberties by an oppressive government. I think our current government needs to update those rights to include environmentally centered ones that focus on laws that prevent things such as environmental racism. This would mean an update to the constitution and in turn amendments that would make it unconstitutional to commit environmental injustices. We really need the government to take environmental based crimes seriously, because the EPA and groups like the ACLU can only do so much. We need actual laws to come into play that specifically aimed at people getting taking advantage of by oil, lumber, energy, and other polluting companies. These heartless corporations look for the most vulnerable communities, usually targeting people from low income housing, only high school educated, or people of color, and they dig their teeth in. We need to let these companies know that every citizen deserves the right to clean air, water, and soil. Once these amendments become official, big corporations will have to think twice about dumping toxic sludge into a communities only water source or fracking for oil in your neighbor's backyard. The truth of the matter is we all should want to protect our planet and defend it against anyone who tries to poison it. The sooner we realize that, the sooner we can get back on track and try to restore all the damage that has been done. We need to stand together, because regardless of you are or where you come from, we all have the same home, and that is earth.

Please enjoy my North Dakota Access Pipeline PSA


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​                                      Sources

#nodapl Hashtag Analytics. (n.d.). Retrieved November 27, 2016, from https://ritetag.com/hashtag-stats/nodapl

Amazon Standing Rock Medic & Healer Council Supply List. (2016, October 5). Retrieved November 27, 2016, from https://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/ref=sr_1_1_acs_wl_2?cid=A1Z3AZARV3IRKL&ie=UTF8&qid=1480202484&sr=8-1-acs.



Dicker, R. (2016, September 8). A Lot of People Aren't Fans of This Pipeline in North Dakota. Retrieved November 27, 2016, from http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-08/dakota-access-pipeline-protest-spurs-multiple-hashtags-justice-league-support

Environmental Justice. (2016, November 3). Retrieved November 27, 2016, from hthttps://www.epa.gov/environmentaljustice


Re: NoDAPL [Web log comment]. (2016). Retrieved November 27, 2016, from hthttps://twitter.com/NoDAPL

Norway's Largest Bank Sells Assets in Dakota Access Pipeline Company. (2016, NNovember 18). Retrieved November 27, 2016, from

https://www.democracynow.org/2016/11/18/headlines/norways_largest_bank_sells_assets_in_dakota_access_pipeline_compan


Popular Twitter hashtags for dapl. (n.d.). Retrieved November 27, 2016, from

https://ritetag.com/best-hashtags-for/dapl


I Stand With Standing Rock

Posted by Moesha Grant in Environmental Science · Aziz · E on

Currently, protestors in Dakota are being tear-gassed because of them preventing the Dakota Access Pipeline from being built. Why are these people protesting?

These people are protesting because of environmental injustice. The current group of people being discriminated against native to the land the Dakota Pipeline is being built over. This pipeline could possibly poison their water source. This pipeline is in Dakota, but it affects us Philadelphians. Our tax dollars and teachers’ pensions are being used to pay part of this project. If this project could possibly endanger others why are we funding it? This question has been avoided.

The government hasn’t made any solutions to the conflict surrounding the Dakota Pipeline, but this hasn’t stopped the efforts of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. They’ve been creating social media pages, petitions, hashtags, and protests. There might be hope the ending of the Dakota Access Pipeline in the near future. A big foreign investor has divested from the Dakota Access Pipeline. The Energy Transfer Crude Oil Company is scrambling for money to continue their project, but they’re running thin in time to meet their deadline.

“Pennsylvania Oil Spill”

Pennsylvania…. The place where the greatest things of this country were accomplished. Where the representation of what Brotherly Love was originated. What is this happy place? Full of different people as idealistic as can be. Children sprouting with knowledge like vines. The perfect state and perfect home, but where there is light it must be darkness.

A third-grade teacher 15 years into their career pray for a peaceful retirement. Not only peaceful but guaranteed like how you expect the ground always to be beneath your feet when you take your next step. A monstrous oil poisons and forbids our pursuit of happiness as Pennsylvanians. We’re blinded of where these “tax dollars” that supposedly help to make a better society go…
Our money has no intent to be used for good, but to harm the water supply of others. Yes, water the source of all life! Without water we wouldn’t be in existence. Yet our voices are gripped and ripped apart by officials that don’t care about our lives. Let your voice be heard or continue to let your tax dollars get burned!

NoDAPL WaterIsLife StandingRock

Sources:

“DAPL.” Twitter. Twitter, n.d. Web.

“Norway’s Largest Bank Sells Assets in Dakota Access Pipeline Company.” Democracy Now! N.p., 18 Nov. 2016. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.

Post, By The Washington. “Standing Rock Sioux Making Last Stand to Block Controversial Dakota Access Pipeline.” The Denver Post. N.p., 25 Nov. 2016. Web. 27 Nov. 2016.

“Standing Against Dakota Access Pipeline- No DAPL.” Facebook. N.p., n.d. Web. 25 Nov. 2916.

“Standing Rock Sioux.” Facebook. N.p., n.d. Web. 24 Nov. 2016.

Standing with Standing Rock.

Posted by Mikayla Brailsford in Environmental Science · Aziz · D on

  1. The Dakota Access Pipeline is a proposed underground oil pipeline, which spans for over 1,134 miles. The Dakota Access Pipeline is controversial because people don’t believe it’s necessary and it can harm the environment. Native Americans have opposed the pipeline, including but not limited to the Meskwaki and Sioux nations. The Dakota Access Pipeline has plans to go through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. Standing Rock Indian Reservation is a Hunkpapa, Lakota and Yanktonai Dakota Native American Reservation. Standing Rock Indian Reservation is a sacred/religious ground for these Native Americans, and if the pipeline is built, it would destroy sites, and items of spiritual significance.

    1. Social Media has people fighting for social justice by creating Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Snapchat pages to educate people about the Dakota Access Pipeline, changing their names on Twitter to reflect their stance on the DAPL by changing their names to #NoDAPL, sharing videos to educate their followers, and friends; as well as sharing a petition.

    2. Some of the hashtags people have been using in regards to the Dakota Access Pipeline are #NoDAPL, #NorthDakota, #DAPL, #DakotaAccessPipeline, #StandingRock, #StandWithStandingRock, #HonorTheTreaties, #STOPDAPL, #SacredWater, and #RezpectOurWater.

    3. I believe that Social Media is an effective form of fighting for Social Justice, because the social media sites people are using have huge amounts of users. Twitter has over 320 million users, while Instagram has over 500 million, Facebook has over 1.59 billion, and Snapchat has over 100 million users. These are the biggest social media sites that people can be found using every day. President-Elect Donald Trump is a frequent Twitter user, and so if #NoDAPL, or #DAPL is trending, he could see it along with the petitions, and could intervene in the situation.

    4. Environmental Justice is the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies, according to Wikipedia. When you think of the role that social media plays in environmental justice, let’s take it a step back and think about the role social media plays in social justice. We can look at the “Black Lives Matter” movement. Black Lives Matter is a movement which campaigns in opposition to the innocent killings of African-Americans by police officers. The Black Lives Matter began as a simple hashtag: #BlackLivesMatter and has since grew to something so much bigger. It has lead to chapters being set up, and non-African-Americans joining in on the campaign for better treatment of colored people. Social Media plays an important part in the fight for Environmental Justice because there a certain people who get all of their news from Social Media, and they’re reading the hashtags, and seeing people who are in opposition to the Dakota Access Pipeline, will inspire them to educate themselves on the issue, as well as join the fight, and spread their knowledge onto other people.

PART II.

  1. The article “Norway’s Largest Bank Sells Assets in Dakota Access Pipeline Company”, is an article that talks about how DNB is in favor of the North Dakota Access Pipeline Company. The DNB has sold over $3.8 billion in assets to help finance the project. When I read that DNB had sold over $3.8 billion to fund the DAPL, I was disappointed because this money could have gone to bigger and better things, but it only goes to prove that people are only interested in getting a bigger payout, which seems like DNB will get that, if the DAPL is built.

    1. After reading that a huge foreign company just invested in the DAPL, I want the Americans to know that we need to fight harder, and we need to continue to spread the word about the DAPL, and what it will do to the religious grounds in North and South Dakota. If we continue to educate people on the negative effects of the DAPL by using social media, and protesting, we will see powerful companies such as Fortune 500 companies, and organizations such as the NBA, NFL, MLB, NHL, etc. stand up and donate money, time to protest, etc.


CITATIONS.



"Dakota Access Pipeline." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2016.


"Standing Rock Indian Reservation." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2016.


"News about #NoDAPL on Twitter." News about #NoDAPL. N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Nov. 2016.



"Environmental Justice." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, n.d. Web. 21 Nov. 2016.

Queer Straight Alliance of SLA @ Beeber

Posted by Devra Kleiner in 11th Grade Advisory · Elish · adv on

Ever wonder if SLA@B had a gay/queer straight alliance? Do you know someone who is LGBT+ (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, etc)? Do you admire a celebrity who’s LGBT+? Are you yourself LGBT+? Do you just want to know more about the LGBT+ community or LGBT+ political issues? Look no further! SLA@B has our very own QSA!!


Our goal is to be able to educate people on LGBT+ issues and identities, as well as provide a safe and secure space for LGBT+ students and allies to talk about their ideas for making the school a safer, more inclusive space for the community (and sometimes just chill). After all, everyone deserves to feel safe and be who they are at school.


QSA takes place on Tuesdays at 3:10pm to around 4 to 4:15pm. Snacks will (eventually) be provided. Bring yourself! Bring your friends! Bring the person you don’t know but you see everyday in the hallway! All are welcome!


Questions? Email Jack (dkleiner@slabeeber.org), Queren (qvillegas@slabeeber.org), Alyssa (astraface@slabeeber.org), Lucas (lborschell@slabeeber.org), or Mr. Elish (jelish@slabeeber.org).  

The Story of Mike Bacsik

Posted by Antwann Aubrey in Technology- Freshmen · Hertz · e2 on

A former baseball player was fired for racist tweet about mexicans his name was Mike Bacsik he was fired from his position on the team and also was suspended from the radio station that hired him but soon was canned from his position mike  was fired from both his jobs on the radio and on the field immediacy played a role in this situation once the tweet was out he lost everything he had.

Immediacy once he made the post about mexicans it was there for the world there was no hiding it


Permanence the tweet was there everyone saw it all his followers saw his post


Lack of Control  people can screenshot it and send it to everyone thats what happen with mike his bosses got the tweet and he was fired


The advice I would give him is dont tweet something you dont want anyone to see be careful about what you post online




Artist Statement

Posted by Donmir Rolling in Art 2 · Hertz · d1 on
The reason I made this art because I always been a fan of pac-man. I remember playing pac-man aunt's house as a kid all the time. For this project i had to a pac-man theme. I look up some ideas on google and i seen one examples and immediately had vision for my project. I never did a pac-man project for a grade so i thought this will be cool. I think my audience reaction will be excited to see a classic old school game. I believe i could've did better for this project. My previous work in my opinion I believe I done better. My current work right now i doesn't feel good about it. will relates to my previous work be… My art will fit in the history of art practice by seeing how I got better over the years of doing art all my life, and see how my work progress and how it improved. One inspiration that art stood out to me was a picture from google image “ Image result for pac man coloring wheel”  My art will fit into a group exhibition because of its classic theme. My art will go with all 80s classic games.  My art relates to other artist in the world because of its unique theme and  different pattern, most of my influence come from google images. A artist technique i use for art painting is pigment colors ( pigments include a corresponding colors, secondary colors, and tertiary colors). A new technique I learn was the palette,  palette is what you use to mix colors and make new a color.
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Be Conscious, Think Before you Post!

Posted by Michael McCline in Technology- Freshmen · Hertz · a2 on
On YouTube, there was a young youtuber. His name was Roastingkid1907. One day, he decidedto make 2 videos, "I roast leafyishere" and "I roast Pewdiepie" 

Pewdiepie is the most popular Youtuber on youtube, and Leafyishere is also a very big youtuber. He reacts to videos in more unique way more then other youtubers. He was also known for having a horrible fan base, because whenever he reacted to a video, his fans would go on that video and harass the person who made the video. His popularity began when the Youtuber Pewdiepie made a facebook post, linking the "Roasting Pewdiepie" video in the post. At the same time, Leafyishere reacted to the "Roasting leafyishere" video. 

The kid received a huge amount of hate on his videos. However, he continued to roast various youtubers. Eventually, thing got bad for him. Kids at his school started to harass him, so he deleted his video. However, Leafyishere still had his reaction to roastingkid videos. His other videos got archived and re uploaded on other channels. He continued to get hate. He eventually posted suicidal picture of himself, and people started to worry he was going to do something bad to his self. He started getting support. He apologized for the roasting videos, deleted his channel, and left forever. The youtube community was happy that he didn't decided to commit suicide. This is a good example of someone not thinking before they post.

 If he thought about the consequences of posting that video before he did post it, nothing bad would've happened to him.

Just remember, think before you post, or you could windup in the same situation as him.

Gerry Hamilton

Posted by Quamir Rothwell in Technology- Freshmen · Hertz · a1 on
http://www.cio.com/article/3012772/social-networking/top-10-social-media-misfires-of-2015.html#slide6​

Gerry Hamilton posted a tweet about 29th ranked football recruit Roquan Smith and put a link in the tweet about him committing to Texas A&M. The link was supposed to be a highlight of him playing football, but instead it was a link to pornographic material. Gerry tried to delete the link but people started screenshotting the post before it was offline.


Lack of control is in this because he did not double check his link and made a big mistake. Imediency plays into this because as soon as he posted it people started screenshotting. Its permanent because screenshots.


Boston Marathon bombings

Posted by Jeremiah Williams in Technology- Freshmen · Hertz · a1 on



2013 Boston Marathon bombings


           This women dressed up as a victim of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings on Halloween before going to work and shared it on Twitter, revealing it to the world.Trying to make fun of the event leading to so many deaths,this is a guaranteed way to lose a job.

           This women’s choice affected individual's life because she made fun of peoples family, when dressing up as a victim of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings. This lady could have really gotten hurt for dressing up that. Immediacy played a role in this because this lady just reminded the people family’s death and how tragic it was. Permanence played a role in this because that post will always be on the internet somewhere and can not be taken down. Lack of control played into the story because when she posted this it may not be able to be taken down.


http://emgn.com/entertainment/12-tweets-that-got-people-fired-from-their-jobs/


The Justine Sacco's Story

Posted by Niyana Campbell in Technology- Freshmen · Hertz · a1 on

On October 7, 2015 The New York Times published an article about Justine Sacco. Justine Sacco is infamous from her tweet about AIDS. She tweeted, “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get AIDS. Just kidding. I’m white!” The tweet went viral and the internet ran wild. Her career and future was ruined because of her actions.

Her tweets will affect her life because everyone she meets will label her as a racist. Justine’s future jobs will look at her posts and notice that she made a joke about AIDS and Africans, and they could possibly be offended.

       Immediacy comes into this story because as soon as she tweeted the remark, her followers viewed it. She couldn’t take it back or erase it from their memory, which brings Lack of Control into the picture. She had no control over who screenshotted her tweet and who shared it with her friends. The New York Times and Paparazzi noticed the comment and made articles about it which were shortly published, her tweet will be Permanent. Next time, Justine should think about what she says and how it would offend others before posting it.

                        


Amanda Todd's life story

Posted by Lucce Guido in Technology- Freshmen · Hertz · a1 on



On October 10, 2012 a girl named Amanda Todd committed suicide due to an immense amount of bullying on the internet and at school.

It started with her and her friends meeting new people on a webcam site on the internet, she said the people on the internet called her beautiful, perfect, stunning and they wanted her to flash them, and she eventually and unfortunately did. Not too long after she got a message on facebook from a guy who she didn’t even know and she didn’t think he knew her, he said “If you don’t put on a show for me i’ll send the picture of your boobs to everyone” and he knew her address, school, and names of the her friends and family.


On Christmas break there was a knock on her door at 4am, it was the police saying the photo was everywhere, after she heard this she spiraled into anxiety, depression, and ptsd, she started getting into drugs and alcohol when she moved and the ptsd and depression got worse, a year later someone followed her and all her friends, the person had her naked in his profile picture, she lost her friends and everything got worse again. She moved and again and it got a little better, she still didn’t have friends. She started talking to a guy and he liked her and led her on, but he had a girlfriend. One night he told her to come meet him and that his girlfriend was on vacation, so she did, and she regrets it, a week later she got a texts from his girlfriend saying she was coming to Amanda’s school with 15 other people, the girlfriend came and beat Amanda up, she was left alone.




She was so alone and sad she attempted suicide, but they saved her. On facebook she saw people saying that they wish she died, and thought she should kill herself. So she moved again started another school, but people kept harassing her, saying she should try killing herself again. She got depressed, anxious, she couldn’t go out or interact with people out of her house, she felt as though sh didn’t want to live anymore, so she took her life.


Immediacy - I think Immediacy plays into this because as soon as she showed herself, it spread everywhere and everyone saw it.


Permanency - I think Permanency plays into this because she keeps moving but people keep seeing it and keep harassing her.


Lack of Control - I think Lack of Control plays into this when she can’t take it down and everyone has it, an example of this is when the man posts her picture all over the internet and she had no control of it.


Source - https://nobullying.com/amanda-todd-story/

Seattle Seahawks compare football to the civil rights movement.

Posted by Kyrah Myles in Technology- Freshmen · Hertz · a1 on

http://www.inc.com/will-yakowicz/the-top-social-media-fails-2015.html  

   In January, the NFL's Seattle Seahawks beat the Green Bay Packers to earn a trip to their second consecutive Super Bowl. The day after that win happened to be Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, so inexplicably the Seahawks decided to compare their struggle for a championship to the struggle for equal rights that African-Americans have gone through. View image on Twitter. The example of immediacy in this situation is how fast the Seattle Seahawks decided to compare them losing a game to the struggle of how blacks didn’t have equal rights. I feel as if that it was very immature, unnecessary, and disrespectful to compare the struggle of equal rights to a game. The example of permanency is that the decision that the team decided to make to compare their lost of a game to a major problem, will always be known; it will be left as a disgrace, embarrassing to all blacks, and disrespectful. This is an example of lack of control because when the team sent this out, it was reposted multiple times; even after deleted. This article shows that you shouldn’t compare simple things, like a lost game, to a major problem, like the struggle of blacks’ equal rights.


Teacher who gets exposed with weed

Posted by Breanna Savage in Technology- Freshmen · Hertz · a1 on

Breanna Savage November 17,2016

Tech


My article was about a 10th grade math teacher named Carly Mckinney who basically got exposed for her tweets and pictures on social media about bringing weed to school and pictures of her smoking it on the internet some of her captions stated “Naked, Wet, Stoned”, along with other captions talking about how she watched people deal drugs in a parking lot and then stated how she had weed in her car of the school parking lot. I see it as though she was high while grading papers during school and the website was able to take her tweets and post them on there website.This is a lack of control because she didn’t think about being a teacher while she was posting and doing the things she did involving weed. This is immediacy because she didn’t take her time posting herself smoking in her car and she probably thought it wouldn’t be that big of a deal. This is permanence because she never took down her captions or post therefore now people can screenshot what she is doing. http://www.oddee.com/item_98873.aspx#.WBoCgOOHlLc.gmail

Luke Gatti Drunk Mac and Cheese

Posted by Thalia Gordon in Technology- Freshmen · Hertz · a1 on

Last fall, a student from University of Connecticut named Luke Gatti faced backlash on the Internet after a 9-minute video of him demanding macaroni and cheese at his university cafe. He was asked many times to leave but because he was intoxicated, he refused to go anywhere. He shouted homophobic slurs at the cafeteria manager. As he became more aggressive a crowd surrounded him and the manager. He was later arrested by officers.  

Permanence, lack of control, and immediacy all plays into this. Since he was drunk he had no actual control over what he was doing. Also he had no control over the people who recorded the video and posted it. For permanence, his police record will always be there unless he gets it expunged even then the manager is not going to forget what happened. Last is immediacy, the video was posted and since almost everyone is on social media it spread quickly.

The advice I would give him is to not get drunk if the first place. I feel as though if you are going to get drunk have friends to take you home and make sure you are ok. Even then he is old enough to know his own drinking limits. The person who posted the video should have never posted it because if that was them , they wouldn’t want someone to do that to them. At the end of the day like I said he should be able to know his limits.

Website: http://www.attn.com/stories/5410/people-whose-lives-were-ruined-internet


Amanda Todd

Posted by Kyla Devaughn in Technology- Freshmen · Hertz · a1 on

A seventh grade girl from Canada named Amanda took her own life in 2012 because she was being cyber bullied. She met an older man in a group chat and he talked her into flashing her chest and sending the picture. She did but she didn't hear from for a year. When he tried to contact her her wanted her to ¨put on a show¨ or he would expose the picture to everyone she knew. So she moved to a different city in Canada and some girls follow her there just to jump her later on that day her father found her in a ditch. She made a video about her experience and began to cut herself. About a year later she was found dead in her room.

Immediacy affected Amada's online life because at one click of a button her life was ruined. As soon as she hit send it was public to the world and there is nothing she could do about it.

     Permanence affected her life because she can never take the pictures she sent to this man and they will always be on the internet. Also it will never be able to completely be taken of the internet.

      Lastly lack of control those picture could be sent to anyone or put any website and she cant stop it. People will always in some way have access to them. And to some  unfortunately that is all she could be remembered as.
In conclusion don't let a mistake change your entire life. Always think before you post or send. And don't let anybody push you into peer pressure.

http://puresight.com/Real-Life-Stories/amanda-todd.html

Think before you post

Posted by Jahdiyyah Matthews in Technology- Freshmen · Hertz · a1 on

Jahdiyyah Matthews

The Racist Tweet

Justine Sacco, a communications director of the New York- based internet empire, InterActive Corp. Justine was at the airport about to board a 12 hour flight from Lodon to Cape Town when she decided to post a tweet, it read, “ Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get Aids. Just kidding. I’m white!”. Now Justine didn’t think to many people would notice this tweet or it would sway off to other social media sites or she would lose her job. Fom Justine being on a 12-hour flight  she didn’t notice all the things she had stired up. By time she landed people had started a hashtag about her #HasJustineLandedYet. Justine was terrifed at all the emails she had gotten and the next morning losing her job. She also wrote a apolojy letter to the world and the internet empire that she worked for. After a couple of weeks of threats and being depressed for her mistake she thought it would be good if she soonly deleted her twitter, facebook,and  instagram account.

Now, Justine didn’t really believe that all of this would happened while she was on a plane. She didn’t even think that so many people would have retweeted, screenshot, or post around because none of her other tweets were so important. That’s the thing with immediacy, you won’t think something would go around so quick. People all around the world have posted things that they didn’t believe would go viral. Immediacy played out in this story becuase withi less of 12 hours one tweet was seen by thousands of people. Even though Justine deleted the tweet and then deleted all of her social media links this tweet can still be seen and still effects people to this day. The tweet is forever aroud, just like a tattoo or something it is permanent.

Lack of control came around once Justine landed and didn’t know what to do about her tweet surfuring around. She didn’t have control of it going viral and have control of how people but she did have control of what she said. My personal advice to Justine is think before you type. Always put yourself in a strangers shoes reading something you say or seeing something you do. No matter what you do it always effects someone, no matter of a good effect, bad effect it still has a role in people lives.

http://www.oddee.com/item_98873.aspx#.WBoCgOOHlLc.gmail


Be Conscious of What You Post

Posted by Zakaa Cruse in TECH (INTRO TO DESIGN MULTIMEDIA) - Hertz - d2 on
                          Think before you post

PR chief Justine  Sacco tweeted about going to South Africa and “hoping she doesn't get AIDS”. However, she offended people when she said of course she won’t, she’s white. This was retweeted thousands of  times . Her company, IAC, fired her for her poor judgment. I think they made the right call because that offended a lot of people and she had to get a consequence for it.

 This could have affected other people view on going to  South Africa. Justine Sacco lack of control on social media ended up with her getting fired. Also, this could affect her from getting in other jobs for her racist tweet on social media. Advice that I can give her is “be smart when you post.” Also, think before you post and don’t post from your emotions keep it to yourself. Justine Sacco was unaware that once you post something it is permanent and it could never be taken down.

 You should always be aware of what you post and make sure it’s appropriate. Advice that I can give to everyone is think about the consequences you will have. Also, never post anything that could jeopardise your job, friends,and family. In addition, never post anything that could offend someone. Always be conscious of what you post on social  media and be smart.

 I say this because, say if you were going on vacation and you post something about you leaving for a certain amount of time that gives a thief time to rob your house. That’s just an example of being conscious of what you post. Therefore, Justine Sacco incident could be a lesson and an example of how serious and important it is on being aware of the consequences when you post things on social media.

Link of story: www.oxegen.com/very-real/8-insane-social-media-posts-that-got-people-fired

Jessica Logan

Posted by Zakirah Boyd in Technology- Freshmen · Hertz · a1 on

Zakirah Boyd

https://shar.es/1IpOYi

Jessica  Logan, was a Ohio high school senior who committed suicide after sending a nude photo of herself to her boyfriend. When they broke up, he sent the photo to everyone else at her school. Jesse was harassed for months by the other girls at her school. Jessie’s grades began to drop, than she started skipping school, but when she did go to school, she would hide in the bathroom to avoid being teased. Jesse Logan decided to tell her story on a Cincinnati television station. Her purpose was simple: “I just want to make sure no one else will have to go through this again.”Two months later, on July 3, 2008, Jessie went to the funeral of a boy who committed suicide, then came home and killed herself. I believe that Permanence, Immediacy, and Lack of Control played a role in this story.

Lack of Control : The moment she sent those pictures to her boyfriend (at the time) she had no control over what happened to them or what people would do with them.

Immediacy: When her ex-boyfriend sent those pictures to everyone in her school, there was no stopping it. Even if the pictures got “deleted”,everyone saw the pictures already. People could have screenshot, share, and post it on the internet for everyone else to see.

Permanence: It's nearly impossible to completely remove a picture off the internet, because there's always a chance that someone downloaded, or screenshotted the pictures.

The only advice I can give to someone that is in her situation is to think about the consequences of sending someone personal photos before sending them.


Purple Rain Color Wheel

Posted by Cierrah Brown in Art 2 · Hertz · d1 on

  In Art 2, I have designed a color wheel with creativity. I decided to turn my color wheel into a girl holding an umbrella. I decided to name it Purple Rain in relations to the late singer, Prince. I thought that would be a really cool idea along with a relative poem. I really did not have a vision I just made decisions as I went. I know that my outline of the wheel could have been neater, that would be the only thing I know I could have fixed and been more careful on. Other than that, based off of my table presentations I think my project was creative. Art is a way of self expression it goes as it comes to mind.

             Contemporary art is basically what today is. My project relates to that by illustrating one of the best late singers death and cooperating it into a project, whom was my inspiration. In these past few years of art, I have experienced using color wheels, but this time I got to put my own creativity into my project including using a different technique. The technique I use was using paint with a knife to create a different pattern.Using techniques is important because when doing art you have to know how and what you are going to use in order to make your project successful.


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Carly Mckinny

Posted by Daniel Hagos in Technology- Freshmen · Hertz · a1 on

http://www.westword.com/news/carly-mckinney-teacher-suspended-over-hot-twitter-posts-backed-by-freecrunkbear-5833516

A teacher named Carly Mckinney was a 23-year-old 10th-grade math teacher at Overland High School in Aurora, Colorado. Carly kept her work life apart from her social life. When still working in her job she posted half-naked pics, photos of her smoking pot and  inappropriate Tweets. Even though pot is legal for personal use in the state, the school is investigating whether McKinney brought pot on campus.Quickly after she posted the tweet the school faculty came to an agreement and fired her from her job. This could affect Carly’s life because other jobs will find her online and would not like someone like working for them. She had been joking about using drugs at school so other students and teachers or just an average person can give her hate for joking about drugs.

Permanence-Now that Carly posted her inappropriate pics online she an not delete them because the internet is full of people liking, sharing, and reposting others content so all of her half naked pics are being multiplied.

Lack of Control-Carly did not put her twitter on private so anyone could see her photos, even if that person never knew who she was. She can not do anything to get those photos back because it was her own fault for posting them.

Immediacy- Once she hit that send button it could show a notification that she had posted a picture on other people’s phone if enabled .Carly had more than 4 thousand followers so there could be at least one person who saved, shared, or reposted a new photo. If so there could be at least one person sharing her pictures online.


Nicole's Situtation

Posted by Darius Smith in Technology- Freshmen · Hertz · a1 on

In my article a girl was cyber bullied and accused for telling on kids who came to school drunk when she had no idea about the incident.  It started when she was celebrating her 17th birthday with her friends at a concert when the mean hate messages started coming in.  Apparently kids were planning to secretly attack her at a In and Out burger.  The attack never happen but she was attacked through the internet instead.  Some kids got in trouble at school for being drunk and everyone thought it was her who told on the kids when she didn’t even know until about two weeks later.  She was scared that she was getting so many hate messages.  Even during lunch she wondered to herself if the kids at the table next to her were talking about her or they were the ones sending the messages. She eventually tried to respond to mean messages but that just got her even more hate and since she had her phone with her all the time she couldn’t run away from the hate.  A few of her friends stuck with her but many of them turned on her.  She even tried to get help from the school but the school even said that they couldn’t help.  She eventually came to the conclusion that she had control over what she recieved, so she deleted her facebook account and swore that she wouldn’t read any mean comments.  Ignoring the bullies wasn’t enough though.  Her mother became worried about her and decided to do research on cyberbullies.  She even spoke out at schools about the topic.  Kids began to want to hear about cyberbullying from a teen.  The girl, Nicole, jumped out at that opportunity in order help kids who are getting cyberbullies and get back at her bullies.  She started a challenge called the “Great American NO BULL Challenge”.  She then later got a message apologizing to her.  This gave Nicole instant relief and made her feel like the world was one step forward to balance again.


Immediacy played into Nicole’s situation very well after everyone assumed that it was Nicole who was the snitch, everyone immediately started getting on her about this lie that was spread around school.  It all happened so quick that Nicole didn’t even know what was going on.  Permanence played into Nicole’s situation also because all of the messages she received were permanent, they weren’t going to stop being send anytime soon and it didn’t matter if she deleted the message because it could just be send again and again.  Finally, Lack of Control played into this situation the most because even though Nicole did nothing wrong, everyone thought she did.  So, she repeatedly received hate messages and had no control over what was being sent.  She can’t simply stop the messages because since so many people were sending her mean messages, it was out of reach for anyone's help.

Quarter One Project

Posted by Lamont Robinson in Art 2 · Hertz · d1 on
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​I didn't create this project for any particular reason I just knew I had to submit something, and it should be something that I have some sort of fun creating. My overall vision was really just experimentation with colors there wasn't really anything deep to it. I think people will be disappointed at least if they know me, because this isn't as good as the stuff I usually do. There is no relation to my previous art. And I dont really see how it fits into any of these things listed here, this seems entirely irrelevant. The source and inspiration for this was a screengrab of the actor of 11 (from stranger things) in the movie Cloverfield I thought it was pretty cool so I painted based off of that. For this piece in particular there were no other influences. There were no real techniques used painting this, the only thing I really did was making sure that each facial feature was distinct and recognizable, not lost in the paint. So I just used a small brush, and painted with either more saturated or just a straight up different color.

Overall, not proud of it-not something I would put in a portfolio, and really it doesn't even seem like I made it.I could've done a much better job but overtime I'm feeling less and less motivated to put "my all" into art pieces for art classes-or I should say high school art classes in particular.


Quarter 1 Project Statement

Posted by Marian Heredia in Intro to Design and Multimedia on

The project that we were assigned this quarter was to make our own personal website. What I had hoped to learn with completing this project was how to create a personal website, and code it.To complete this project, I first picked a website that would generate a website for me. I ended up picking Weebly to use to make my website. Then, I began to make the required pages that were needed such as Home, About Me, Contact Me, Resume, and Project Page. A failure that I encountered while creating my website was attempting to upload a file of my resume. It wouldn’t upload correctly and kept giving me an error page. Until, it worked after trying many times to upload it. I didn’t have much technical errors but, I did have trouble with being creative. A couple of things that I learned while creating this website were how to make my own resume, and make a contact page. I learned that I need to get out the house and do some more activities because I didn’t have much to put on my resume, and it was sad. If I were to do this project all over again, a couple of things I would do differently would be to spend more time decorating, and finding pictures to put up on it. A tip that I have for anyone else that would be attempting to complete this project would be to try to be very creative and add their personality to the website. This project inspired me to be creative, and productive with my free time. In this project the message dictated the medium because the information wouldn’t change no matter what.


http://marianheredia.weebly.com/

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