Website:http://puresight.com/Real-Life-Stories/david-molak-2000-2016-puresight.html

Summary:  January, 2016, David Molak, a fitness enthusiast, Spurs fan, and an Eagle Scout, a sophomore at Alamo Heights High School in Texas, hung himself in his family's backyard because of cyberbullying. There were about 6 to 10 bullies, bringing him down with insults and comments on social media and text message. The bullies really never had a real reason to bully him, it was all out of jealousy. They might’ve been jealous because he had an attractive girlfriend, or maybe because he was a good kid minding his business. His brother said that one night he was added to a group chat and was made fun and was removed from it 2 minutes later. His brother said “In today’s age, bullies don’t push you into lockers, they don’t tell their victims to meet them behind the school’s dumpster after class. They cower behind user names and fake profiles from miles away constantly berating and abusing good, innocent people.”

Immediacy, meaning the quickness of action. Immediacy played a role in this because of when David Molak was added to the group chat, it was quick, and everyone in the chat started saying all bad things to David. He couldn’t even say anything back, after, they just removed him.

Lack of Control, meaning not having enough power to do something. Lack of control played a role in this, also when they added him in the group chat, he never asked to be in the group chat. He didn’t know he was going to be added, so he couldn’t prevented any of that.

Permanence, meaning the state of remaining unchanged. Permanence has played a role, when the kids that bullied David text all the mean things they said to him in the group chat. They might've removed him from the chat, but the messages were still sent and somewhere it's still up.

I think that kids should not bully others because they don't know how they are thinking, some kids can take the bullying more than others. Or if you are getting bullied tell someone, that's what everyone says, but telling someone could really save your life, or another.

Allison Abate                             Think before you post

Trevor project lifeline : 866-488-7386           Trevor Project Text : 202-304-1200

Trevor project-http://www.thetrevorproject.org  

Articles -http://www.thetrevorproject.org/blog/entry/tyler-oakley-celebrates-trevor

-http://www.tubefilter.com/2014/04/11/tyler-oakley-trevor-project-charity-campaign-prizeo-half-million/

       Introduction - This day, in age, all you here about is the negative things that are happening in our world and more importantly now even more on social media . For my article I am talking about about Tyler Oakley . Tyler Oakley, is a 27 year old youtube star who made a difference in our world’s younger (LGBTQ+) community. Instead of asking for gifts for his birthday Tyler asked to send in donations for the Trevor Project . The Trevor Project is an American non-profit organization founded in 1998 focused on suicide prevention efforts among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and questioning (LGBTQ+) and other queer youth.Tyler ended with donations at more than a half a million dollars.

      Tyler Oakley plays a role in Permanence in a very effective way. Tyler Oakley couldn’t have a better places on the internet . He used to just be known for effecting teens and adults on the internet for being funny,talking about pop culture and for entertainment.Now he not only makes people feel better,he changed peoples lifes.Permancy is effected on him now because he is saving otheres lives ,by the donations he has sent in ranking over a half a million dollars.Now everytime someone searches for him by name on the frist page of google The Trevor project comes up with an article all about him and what he did for the project.He is always going to have a good search now because of the way he impacted people and it will always be remeber by millions of people on and off the internet.

    Immediacy plays into Tyler Oakley’s  Accomplishment from the time he posted the youtube video,sent out tweets,and made a instagram post.He  got tons of support when he posted  the video. He also got some people who didn’t support him; that hate is important, it lets him know he is getting far .Once he posted that video it wasn’t going down he has over 8 million subscribers someone else has that video.Now he gives and shows eveone a sense of help that needed it or wants it.So immedicacy comes in when the video was posted on youtube it couldn’t be reversed.

       Lack of control has one of the biggest impacts on social media these day , some people don’t even realize what their getting into. In Tyler Oakley’s situation in lack of control plays out when he asked to send in donation.He couldn’t tell people to donate ,he could only ask.He could have made no donations at all , but because he did it for a really good reason he got over a half a million dollars . He also had lack of control of how much people were donation you could donate how much or how little you wanted . To anyone it didn’t matter because if you did everyone was thankful.

      Conclusion- Most importantly over everything Tyler Oakley made a huge impact for the trevor project .Little did everyone know he did it again a year later and continues to help the trevor project. Lack of control,Permanence,and  Immediacy impacted and will continue to impact social media. The point I think he wants to get across is that there is always someone to talk to even if it’s just on the phone with someone from the trevor project.You never should hurt yourself because there always someone to talk to regaurdless of you think there is or not; everone is equal no matter what.Tyler Oakley impacted social media and peoples lives in the best way possible.

A (brief) description of your project and project goals, including what you hoped to learn through completing the project.

My project goal is trying to help everyone get to know me more better as an SLA student at “Science leadership Academy” so they can become more comfortable around me and about who I am as a person. So they can relate to some of the things I have talk about and went over about my website with me that I don't know about them. We could have similar results about each other lives  we don't know until this website help them get too know me. I hoping to learn more about the techniques and structure and gain more knowledge of this website because I  will never know I could need this website again for project or assignment again some day. It could be media designing or whatever etc. in the future it could come in handy again so i'm hoping that I could use this website again for an reference someday again.  

A (brief) description of the process you went through to complete the project.

Here are all the slides I touch over about my media design project “Home Page”, “About Me”, “ My Resume”, “ My Project” and also I have included a etc. slide to tell everyone thank you for looking at and viewing my website also learning about who I am has a person. Starting off for my “Home Page” I wanted to let everyone know what they are looking forward to seeing in my website project it’s like a small welcome and greeting also introduction. For my “About me Page” I gave just a small life bio of who I am and what I do in and out of school and mostly my hobbies and interests about life itself also I have include an video of one my dearest closest talents I like the most about my life is make creating music and one of the musical talents I  have is playing “Drums” and I will show video of myself playing drums at a wedding. Now for my “Resume Page” I just include some accomplishments, and Job opportunities that I was offered, also talents that I have have in my life. Another slide that I have included in my website page was about  “Project’s Page” so what I have done for project was I just displayed project that I have done in the past year, also I have included an project that I have done this year that I just got finished doing not too long ago and they were both about “Bio-chem” because I love science. Also the last project I have included was one that I am working on now today a flute that was  for “Stem and Intro”. Now for the very last slide I just a include a “Closing Page”  I just tell everyone thank you for viewing and hope you like the website and hope they have enjoyed getting to know me.  

Any successes and/or failures you encountered. If you describe a failure, explain how you overcame or worked around that failure.

Something that gave me trouble was uploading a video too my website and publishing my website, and how I have overcome these troubles I ask for help from the teacher about uploading a video on my website also the response I got was “ look at youtube for an guiding reference for how to upload a video on your website” and it worked out perfectly, and the second situation I ask a peer how to publish a website and “she” help me out a bit but “she” also remind me that we have guide website  how answer the questions you are  seeking for and it help me out a lot because what happened??? I went right to website and it did help me and had the answers  I was looking for.

What you actually ended up learning through the completion of the project.

I learned the features and structure and creation for how to make a website through this learning process.

What you learned about yourself through the completion of the project.

I learned that I have to have patience with myself and learn to look at guidance reference and guide lines when they are given and when I have a question or don't understand something ask a peer and teacher then but first try you best and see what you can do and come up first.

How you would do this project differently if you were to do it all over again.

I don't think I would really change anything but added some more stuff to talk about for the  website.

Any tips or hints for others attempting this project.

Read first before doing and make sure you pay close attention when instructions are being given.

What this project inspired you to do next.

This project inspired me to use this website maker for projects or assignments when projects and assignments come out I can just use this website as an display for what I am trying to sponsor or if I want to make website of my own now I know what to use to make a website.

Proper citations for any work that is not yours

The background images are not minds…

In this project, did the message dictate the medium or did the medium dictate the message?

“The message dictated the medium” how because the the website was the message and the medium was the public audience, the message was going towards the medium for the medium too learn from the message.  

An example of Thinking Before You Post, is IHOP posting a Sexist joke towards their food. IHOP always makes edgy jokes towards their food, but one post took it one step too far, to their 242,000 followers. The tweet said, ¨Flat, but has a GREAT personality¨. The community took this the wrong way, and starting to call IHOP, and complain about this inappropriate tweet. IHOP ended up apologizing about the tweet, but the damage had already been done. This tweet had gotten people upset, over a single tweet which can get to a lot of people. It is also stated in the website (socialmediaweek.org) “ Tying your product to any part of the body is ill-advised, especially when itś highly offensive¨. Social media can cause many offensive comments to you, or anyone else. You would have to be careful of what you're posting, and commenting on. It can cause many doubts, and multiple opinions about what you are doing. Lack of control was played here by IHOP not able to apologize towards their followers, but having the damage already done, and people not taking the apology seriously. You can’t really say sorry to something that you already gave multiple people a upset perspective about. Lack of control played a part in this, and IHOP followers took this the wrong way.

When I started thinking of this project I wanted to do something different from just a regular color wheel, so I went on google to see different ideas. I saw a color wheel on google and I liked it so I did that for my project. I did that because I thought it was cool how it had the colors in the leaves. Even though this is not my original piece I added my own touch to it. What I did was; I did a tint from the leaves going down to the root and I also added a background of different colors all splashed around in an unorganized way.

I think this piece was ok, it could’ve been better if I made it bigger so that the shade could show some more, but when people look at this I want them to have their own interpretation of it and I also wants it to show people to think outside of box and because of the background I want it to be seen as also a very vibrant piece of Art which reminds me a lot of when i first started drawing and coloring, I used to always use a lot of colors and I think that represents the kind of person that I am.

Faria Sanida

Be Conscious, Think Before You Speak

North Stream

11/2/2016

    The story of Amanda Michelle Todd started like all the other cyber bully stories begin. She was a happy Canadian fifteen year old girl with friends and family until she met this anonymous person on Facebook who flattered and complimented her so much to the point of persuading her to show her topless body to him. It all started when she was in 7th grade and used to video chat with new people over the Internet and met the anonymous person. That person blackmailed her with threats of sharing her topless pictures to her friends. A year later another anonymous sent her the same picture of her and it went viral, causing bullying and teasing to the point she had to change schools. After that she fell into drugs and alcohol and then attempting suicides a few times before she finally succeeded at last. On October 10, 2012 she took her own life. The month before she died, she posted a video on YouTube with the use of flashcards, telling her stories of being abused, bullied and harassed. She described her silent story of how she used self harm, drugs and alcohol into silence the pain she suffered. All Amanda wanted was someone to understand her, listen to her and a trusted friend. Therefore, because of the choices she made, it affected her later in her short life.

    Immediacy, Lack of Control and Permanence had played a major role in the story. Immediacy refers to how fast something gets spread and or post online. If Amanda didn’t share her private photos with the anonymous person than the teasing from the classmates would’ve never started and she would’ve never had to change school constantly. Lack of Control means that when you post something you lose all control of where that post may end up and who that post might end up with. Amanda shouldn’t have shared her photos with the anonymous person because now she doesn’t have any control of that photo once they were sent to someone. Permanence means that something is being permanently posted online. Even though Amanda didn’t share her photos publicly, it was still sent to someone through online which means once you send someone to something they could do anything to it. However, Amanda shouldn't have talked to anyone she met online and trusted them extremely quickly. There is no way you could ever find out that the person you're talking to could actually be them because in reality it could be someone else behind that profile picture. Be careful who you talk to online because no one ever wants to be in a position where Amanda Todd was once in.

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

My work was created with more of a science art vision. I say this because I turned the color wheel idea into colorful atoms and I made my background all black. I expect people to get the idea through the circles being so close together leaving no room in between. My current world relates to my previous work because with any art piece I’ve ever created I made sure that it was some type of colorful. The whole concept of the colors is like my signature on any piece that i create.

An artist that I am influenced by is Andy Warhol because he is an artist who usually works with lots of colors. For example in his Marilyn Monroe pieces he shows how his colors affects different moods of his work. Anything that he does I try to do because he is a very unique artist who I think see things in his own way.

In this project I created a website for media and design class. You will see things like what I do for fun, school projects and what I have planed for my future. In this project I hoped to learn how to build a better website for future reference. While doing this project I learned just that but I still have things to learn and work on. This project was very eye opening! This project was somewhat of a long process. We had many checkpoints leading up to the final submission. First we had to complete our homepage. We had to make it look eye catching and easy to navigate. After that we had to work on the following pages to complete our website. Homepage, About me, Resume, Project those are the thing we needed to complete it. Adding a contact page was optional. I added a gallery page which included pictures of me and things I mentioned. I did that because I felt like I didn't have enough pictures on my website. This is basically the process we had to take to complete this project.

I think I did really well with the design aspect of it. Now when it came to the navigation on the homepage I did really well on. But, on the rest of my pages I didn’t add any easy way to go to other pages. I think I did very poor on turning the checkpoints in time. To overcome that I made sure that i completed the checkpoint of head of time. Throughout the whole doing the whole project the main thing that I learned was how to build a website and add more eye catching things. One main thing that I learn about myself is that I suck at writing about myself. Two things that I would do differently about this project is turning things on time and asking for help with making my site easier to navigate. One tip that I would give is don’t Procrastinate! This project inspired me to make a website for my crocheting. All pictures are mine but, the poem from Shel Silverstein and the quote from Erykah Badu are not mines. This everything I got from my project. Thanks for viewing!

http://awoodson7.wixsite.com/ashtonportfolio

Isaac Wooten

In this story Chipotle worker named James Kennedy didn’t say anything mean, but he said some things about the Chipotle wages being too low. He posted,"@ChipotleTweets, nothing is free, only cheap #labor. Crew members make only $8.50hr how much is that steak bowl really?” After a supervisor showed him the social media policy, he immediately deleted the post. He was fired after other complaints. Kennedy sued Chipotle  for wrongfully firing him. Luckily the court was on the side of Kennedy. After that situation James Kennedy he didn’t have a job at Chipotle but now has a job at American Airlines. This shows signs of just about all three categories (Immediacy, Permanence and Lack of Control), mostly shows Immediacy because in the article unknowingly he posted a tweet about the restaurant and was not thinking about the consequences that might actually occur which led to his boss finding out rather quickly. Once informed he immediately deleted the tweet. Once on the internet it is never really gone because it leave residue when deleted, where you can always find it. I tell you that because it shows Permanence and how nothing is completely 100% deleted from the internet. It was Lack of control because once it happen he had no idea it would turn out this well. He basically got paid all the wages he was owed, won the court against Chipotle and got a great paying job at American Airlines. All three thing can either really help someone out in life on the internet or really punish somebody one the internet. All I can say is he needs to be a lot more careful with what he posts on the internet and learn to keep certain thing to themselves. This time it worked out for him but for most of the time it won’t end up like that.

Work cited: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/271823

Be Conscious, Think Before you Post!

In this article an officer was suspended without pay for using the internet negatively. He was posting vine videos of him stealing cocaine from evidence room as a joke. He is a cop from Buffalo, New York named Richard Hy. He was lucky he kept his job (so far). His account on vine was called “angry cops”. Richard Hy broke a policy when wearing his uniform in some of the videos. In the videos he pretends he is a shot suspect, taking cocaine from evidence locker , and also makes fun of people who are over dose at a drug court etc. When he got in trouble he made a statement on vine saying “I'm blowing up on the news right now I guess Cops can't be funny or have a life outside of being emotionless robots”. Lack of Control played a role in this article because Richard Hy wasn’t able to control who and want was able to access it. Richard Hy was not thinking before posting, he didn’t notice that the police department and other cops were going to see it. In his videos he was being very immature when pretending to be someone. Richard Hy thought many of the videos were funny but other people it was very disturbing and offensive. Permanence played a role in Richard Hy situation because everything he posted is now permanent and shared. Millions of people now so it and shared it and showing others. Even though if he deleted it’s still out there because he can’t delete it off the internet. Immediacy also played a role in his situation because his videos went viral fast. Many people shared , and liked his videos making other people see it and many other officers.

http://buffalonews.com/2016/03/05/buffalo-police-slap-officer-richard-hy-with-more-charges-over-satirical-videos/

http://buffalonews.com/2016/03/16/angry-cops-officer-back-on-duty-in-buffalo/

http://buffalonews.com/2016/10/19/star-buffalo-cop-video-hot-water-west-seneca/

Throughout the quarter, we have been exploring the decisions that we make when it comes to what we post online as well as analyzing the decisions of others.

For this assignment, please find a story about an individual's use of social media (it can be a positive or negative use) and explain the story and the effects that this choice had on the individual's life or the life of others. Also, please explain how Immediacy, Permanence and Lack of Control played into the story and give the individual advice for their online life.

You will then write a blog post containing the information above and a link to at least one article about the story.

Kasai Jean-Paul/Lamartiniere

Think before you  post

Mother of cyber bullying victim pens heartbreaking open letter in response to his suicide

In this story a during April 27, 2016  an innocent seventeen year old boy named

Felix Alexander commits suicide out of grief and sorrow after being maliciously mocked

over social media by people who didn’t even know him. This abuse caused Felix to suffer

extreme depression and things didn’t get any better while he was at school either. While at

school he was constantly harassed and abused by other students, even his own fellow

and was even declared to be the most hated kid in the whole school despite his teachers saying he was smart kind and caring. Felix on the other hand thought of himself as a looser and wimp with no guts or self esteem. He  eventually moved to another school only to end up with people who saw his social media to harass and bully him as well. After this his depression started to grow more and more into a mental breakdown until he eventually snapped and decided to take away his own life leaving not only him to die in sadness and grief but also to leave his mother in sadness and grief especially after attending his funeral. In this story you can tell that Felix’s immediacy made him easily vulnerable to cyberbullying. By sharing information with everyone over the internet people were easily able to find flaws and weaknesses within him and were thus able to keep on using the weaknesses against him until he cracked. This caused him to be exposed and bullied by students, classmates and even people who barely even knew him enough to judge him. As for what Felix was being mocked about about, it was a video game. On Ithttp://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3823251/It-began-unkindness-advent-social-media-overwhelming-Mother-s-heartbreaking-letter-bullies-drove-son-kill-not-allowed-play-Call-Duty.html it was said that Felix posted on his Social Media that his mom wouldn’t let him play a violent video game called “Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2”. This however caused everyone on his social media to maliciously mock him by calling him names such as a loser and a wimp despite him not having any control over what he was allowed to play. Not only that but he eventually had no self control in his own media either. After only a few people found out about the video game he wasn’t allowed to play word quickly got out to dozens, hundreds and eventually even thousands of people and what's worse was that there was nothing he could do to prevent or escape the undeserving consequences he got for this. He was completely trapped in a never ending realm of permanence. No matter where Felix went to forget about and escape his cruel past there were always people who knew about his media and brought up the whole situation again. He had lost complete control over his internet life and Social life because of posting something on the internet that he could never take back or remove especially when over thousands of people found out. The worst part though is that he went through all of this pain and suffering all because of a video game. He was given cruelty just because his parents were being responsible and not letting him play anything violent. This story is one of the main examples about the danger of Social media. When you post something on Social Media it will always stay their and spread. Also, when posting something even as small and harmless as a videogame there will always be people who will try to find a way to use something as small and harmless as that to make you think less of yourself and they'll always keep on trying push you more and more until you end up making the same mistake Felix made and sometimes it’s only when that person results to such a hasty action when  people mocking them finally realize the horrible mistake they have made only for it to be too late.

Trinati Massenburg     November 4,2016   Ms. Hertz

For this assignment, please find a story about an individual's use of social media (it can be a positive or negative use) and explain the story and the effects that this choice had on the individual's life or the life of others. Also, please explain how Immediacy, Permanence and Lack of Control played into the story and give the individual advice for their online life.

Jessica Logan

The article i am doing is about a girl named Jessica Logan, a 18 year old girl who went to Sycamore High School. Jessica sent nudes to her boyfriend, when they broke up he sent her nudes to everyone. The high school girls began to harass Jessica and calling her names. Jessica should've thought about the consequences of her sexting to her boyfriend. Immediacy, Permanence, and Lack of Control played in this story by the Permanence of the photo that Jessica sent to her ex-boyfriend.Lack of Control that Jessica had of the photo and the people who saw the photo. The Immediacy is when she sent the photo to her boyfriend and realizing that she could not control where it was gonna go.

Qualee Bentley

DiGiorno Pizza went to Twitter to promote their pizza using the hashtag #WhyIStayed. What they didn’t know was that the hashtag was used for thousands of women opening up about their abusive relationships. DiGiorno quickly realized that they made a mistake and took it down but it was too late, this shows lack of control and permanence. They began to explain how they didn’t check and see what the hashtag represented and started to apologize to everyone that saw it. This shows how immediacy played into their situation.