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In this article, a Russian teenage girl films herself killing animals with her friend, and puts the videos on social media. Along with posting these horrible videos, she also said online that she planned on killing her mother. Supposedly, they adopted animals no one wanted and swore to take care of the animals, but instead they filmed themselves murdering innocent animals to post the videos online. In result to the videos becoming viral across multiple social media outlets, the two teenagers were arrested.

The choices they made will forever haunt those girls; if they aren't in prison their names and faces will forever to be tied to slaughtering animals, which links into the seriousness of how permanence plays into whatever you post online. In relation to immediacy one instagram picture seems to be from this month, (I had to guess, I couldn’t translate the date.) Which is a great example of how fast it takes for a single social media post to blow up. As for lack of control, I don’t think these girls even thought of that. Surly they were aware that anyone could see what they posted, the one girl’s instagram wasn’t even on private. Most likely they didn’t think it through, or maybe they didn't understand how serious the situation was.

The only advice I could give to these girls is the following; If you are feeling that emotionally unstable then you need to get help. Talk to an adult, get a therapist, find a positive outlet that doesn’t hurt anyone/anything. Instead of creating such a negative image for yourself, do something amazing. Although my  advice might not be helpful because of how serious this case is,  I still really believe that more people should strive to be an amazing person.

http://poluostrov-news.com/habarovskie-zhivoderki-poslednie-novosti-foto-video/

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/teenage-girl-arrested-after-filming-9100719

Article:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3689780/Playboy-model-Dani-Mathers-sparks-furious-backlash-body-shaming-naked-woman-Snapchat.html

Headline of Article:

‘If I can't unsee this then you can't either!' Playboy model Dani Mathers sparks a huge backlash after body shaming a naked woman in the gym showers on Snapchat.

Model Dani Mathers body shamed a woman taking a shower at the gym and put pictures of her doing so on Snapchat and captioned them “If I can’t unsee this, you can’t either”. Apparently, the photos she took body shaming the women were supposed to be used in a private conversation and shared with one person. After she posted the pictures to her thousands of followers, she was called out for body shaming and sued by the woman she body shamed. She immediately apologized for her actions after being bashed on social media by millions of people.

Her actions have had a major impact on her reputation and how people see her as a person. People that have not known her before this incident have had a horrible first impression about her. The story and the images are still circulating around the internet and she cannot remove them because the pictures have been screenshotted, saved, reposted, and shared around the globe. This has to deal with lack of control, when you post something, you have to be mindful what you post because it can be shared in an instant and you cannot control what happens to your post and what people do with it. It technically will never be deleted.

When she posted those pictures to social media, she couldn’t undo it. This has to deal with permanence. What she posted would never be erased and whatever she did on the internet is permanent and will circulate around on the web forever.

People started sharing, reposting ,and screenshotting the photos that the model took immediately after she shared those pictures. This is how the person she took the photos of eventually found out about the photos that were taken of her. This has to deal with Immediacy . Immediately after you post something, people are already viewing it and sharing it with others.

My advice for what Dani Mathers on what she should have done during that situation would be that she could’ve kept her thoughts to herself. It was not necessary for her to put her negative thoughts about another person on social media. Especially if it’s negative or hurtful because that can lower people’s self confidence and cause them to harm themselves.

There are a lot of occurring internet controversy when it come to posting on social media, especially when in the hands of teenagers. Due to the lack of control when posting, teenagers tend to post offensive self-opinions and highly inappropriate content that goes beyond restrictive internet policies.  However, it is not only teenagers posting irresponsibly. Sometimes even adults go past restricted limitations of internet usage.

In the story of women named Justine Sacco who is thirty years old, Justine herself, supposedly tweeted out a racist comment that stated the following: “Going to Africa. Hope I don’t get aids. Just kidding. I’m white!”.  This caused a never ending stream of hatred by offended people to rise against her. The hate that came with the comment lead up to Justine potentially losing her job as a senior director of corporate communications at IAC. Not only did this tweet offended people, there were numerous other tweets from her that affected both her reputation and career.

After the immediacy of her comment took effect on being spread all around social media, Justine’s friend, Hannah, was suffering from the lack of control as hashtags and retweets started being were posted nonstop. Lack of control gave Hannah the inability to delete the racist comments. And finally, permanece ensured that the tweet would never simply go away, Which meant that it was too late for Justine.

Jessica Logan,an 18 year old senior from Sycamore High school sent nudes to her boyfriend,but the photos were sent to hundreds of teenagers in at least seven Cincinnati area schools after they broke up.The bullying continued throughout  all types of social media such as Myspace Facebook and text messaging. She then committed suicide by hanging herself after attending the funeral of another kid who had recently committed suicide.

Lack of control is theme of the story because as soon as she sended those nude explicit pictures to her boyfriend she had no control over what he did with them,whether or not he sent them to others or anything else she had no control over what he could or would do with those images.She should have thought more deeply about who she sent her personal photos to or who she could trust with those photos.

Donald Sterling was the owner of the Los Angeles clippers since 1981. But in 2014 there was video leakage of him saying racist remarks against black people. The leakage spread fast and became top stories on sports networks. Donald Sterling could not stop it from spreading either. It seemed that the video of him was on every website. This was an example of lack of control because he couldn't control how much it spread.

  To this day, if you went on the internet and looked up the Donald Sterling scandal, you can still find the video. Nothing he can do can take the video off the websites. This shows how permanence played into him. His reputation is forever ruined because it's always going to be online.  

  He couldn't stop it from being posted because it happened too fast. He never would expected his life to be ruined too fast but that's what happened. Immediacy played a huge role in this because he could have stopped it before it went online if immediacy was not a problem.

Requirements for this project:

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.

Article Refrence http://www.ksat.com/news/police-officer-fired-for-threatening-dallas-woman-on-social-media

The Article I read was a negative article about a police officer who threatened a mothers daughter for the mom putting her child on facebook. He made cruel comments and threatening to take her away at night and criticising the mom for putting her on the internet. This accident impacted the police officer because he was then fired from his job and has multiple court hearings now. This will be bad for him in the future because all he had was being a police officer with not coming into that job with a college education and now that he was fired there's really nothing us for him to do that will pay his bills.

Things that we learned in class like Immediacy, Permanence, and lack of control played a big role in this article.

Let's start with the easy one, Lack of control. One this was posted it messed up his whole life. He had no control over what others did with this comment or what they had to say about it. Some was livid like M Gonzales and some thought he was just giving a friendly/ scary/ wisdom message like Tracy Whitham.  

Tracey Whitham

¨I think he was attempting to warn her that posting your child could put her in danger and to hug her because it could be her last. Stop posting or using your children. The Internet is open to a lot more than you realize.¨

M Gonzales

¨Yeah! The Internet is also open to idiots like you. Same harm can come to adults as well. I suggest you stay off social media.¨

Permanency played a role because after he posted it although he deleted it others took it and it became viral. There was nothing that he could do about it and that's what made OPPD and OPPD police chief upset.

OPPD Police Chief Francis Donchez said. “It was obvious that our officer did not meet the standards of professionalism for the Overland Park Police Department. Overland Park has terminated the officer, effective immediately.”

The Last one that we learned about in class was Lack of control. It was simply nothing that he could do to make everything disappear from the world. Everyone of the points that we learned in class played a role in his case and everyone's else case. This made me reflect on what i post on the internet and it should make you be cautious about what you put on the internet as well.

My personal Advice to the officer was that he should have never said those comments even if he really did not mean to say them. If I had to say something to everyone I would say that Everyone should think before their post and make sure that what you say is not hurtful in a way you did not mean it to be.

  Think Before you Post

                                          By:Katherine Russell

      Amanda Todd is mostly known for her YouTube post of her telling her story with flash cards. Her death was lead to cyberbullying(online and offline) and harassment. Her story started during a facetime online with some friends. They dared her to flash on camera, Amanda then flashed her friends, at first she didn’t think of the consequences. How immediacy in this story is that the next day (after Amanda Todd flashed her friends), the police came to Todd’s home, saying that someone took a picture of her flashing. The picture was posted online and became viral. Amanda tried her best to get it down, but a man took a screenshot of her chest and sent it to everyone she knows.

        "I can never get that photo back," she wrote. "It's out there forever." quote Amanda Todd. This lack of control and performance is what drove Amanda to drugs,depression, cutting and a suicide attempt with bleach. Amanda also tried to escape her bullies by moving from towns and schools. Even though the picture was Amanda had the choice to flash or not, her lack of control online is what lead to her death. How permanence played in this story is that people who saw and took a screenshot of the picture would never forget about it. Also no one would let her forget about it either. If I ever had the chance to warn Amanda about her action, is that think before you do, because whatever you do it can haunt you forever.

Bibliography

http://abcnews.go.com/US/bullied-teen-amanda-todds-death-investigation/story?id=17489034

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-story-of-amanda-todd

When she was 13 Amanda Todd made a mistake she deemed harmless at the moment. That mistake snowballed until the end of her life  two years later. When Amanda Todd was 15 she committed suicide, because she felt like she was trapped in a situation she had no control over. Her mistake was thinking she could trust someone she deemed trustworthy  with pictures of her body. The person who took the pictures decided to distribute them throughout the internet which in turn fueled a campaign to cyberbully Todd. In the two years between Todd’s suicide and the pictures being spread, she turned to self-harm, alcohol and drugs to cope with the immense cyber bullying. Since she realized she couldn’t control the spread of the images or the bullying, she turned to things she felt she could control. She was in a situation she could not control because of social media and she chose to take control of the only thing she felt she could: her life. On October 10,2012 Todd took her life in a response to the bullying she received. Before you post, think about how it affects the other person.

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-story-of-amanda-todd

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Amanda_Todd

The North Dakota pipeline movement have been shaking social media these past few months. And their impact on sites such as Facebook are spreading throughout the world. This article states how people are somewhat ‘checking in’ on Facebook to show that they’re going to Standing Rock, ND to protest against the pipeline. There was a post on Facebook, saying that the sheriff department checks on Facebook to see how many people are going to protest and who exactly are they.  A post came in, though the article doesn’t state the identity of the person who posted it. Many people have ‘checked in’ on Facebook, claiming that they are protesting on the North Dakota pipelines. It’s to trick the police and try to find a way to help the protesters of the pipeline.

Though I don’t have the identity of the one individual who posted the comment but their actions did help the protesters, in a way. People were ‘participating’ through the screen of their phone or laptops. They had an impact on the pipeline protest, finding a way to help the people and try to confuse the police but they didn’t have that big of a effect. On the article, say of the actual protesters said that it would have been nice if the people who claimed they were at Standing Rock, North Dakota could actually be there. Their participation on the protest didn’t really have as much as a positive effect as they were suppose it. Instead they might have just confused and annoyed the police. Plus, the article says that the sheriff department actually doesn’t monitor Facebook feeds or comments about people protesting the North Dakota pipeline. They say it’s completely false.

Immediacy plays into this. Everyone saw the post and since they felt bad for the people protesting the pipeline being arrested and they’re not able to help them, they decided to believe into this ‘check in’ on Facebook and participate in that. The post has an positive impact on the people in Facebook. It rallied some up to post that they were going to North Dakota to protest against the pipeline and as more people were posting, it eventually had articles on it and gaining some popularity. Maybe teenagers and students on Facebook see this posts and think to try to do something for the community. My advice would be next time, instead of just saying something on the Internet, go and try to make a positive impact on your own. If you can’t physically go, maybe donate and speak out for the cause. Try to inform everybody about it and how it’s bad for people who are protesting against it and are being arrested for something they believe in.

I think the motives of this whole ‘check in’ thing was good. They had good intentions but if they really wanted to play a role in this, try to actually go to North Dakota and participate in the protests. The post was claimed to be false in information and just confused the department. They did have some form of support for the protesters of the North Dakota pipeline but one of them did say, “It would have nice to have those 550,000 people really here.”  

Abdulomar Tucker

Thu,Oct 20th,2016  

Color Wheel Project         

             What’s your Future?

               I created this project because I didn’t want to just make my project a little  different.  I didn’t just want to have a color wheel , so I started thinking of ways to incorporate the color wheel into a overall picture. I went from trying to use inspiration from a show to nothing. Until one day it hit me. Out of nowhere, I thought about using a fortune teller. This way I would be able to incorporate the color wheel in a cool way. Because of the cool incorporation with the fortune teller and the color wheel being multi-purposeful , I believe the audience will love it. I think they would commend me for my vision and creativeness.

Similar to my other works. I like to make my work creative, deep and making  it something that you have to make  the most out of it. Another reason, why it’s similar to my other works is  if it were thrown into a pile of my other works it wouldn’t stick out in a negative .I think my work also compares to contemporary works in modern society because I took some 21st century influence. I also gave my work and message I constantly think about which I titled the painting. This fits in with history because it’s contemporary art. Making it fit in a unique category.  I used pictures from this site to draw inspiration : "Love Fortune Telling." Love Fortune Telling. N.p., n.d. Web. 31 Oct. 2016. An artist that influences me is James Patterson. He fits into my work a lot because we give our work a realistic comic book feel. Our work looks like it could be in a comic book. A technique I find useful and mimic is the number of drafts he would make of one work. He would remake something as many as 9 times to really work it over. I never did this before learning about him. It makes the work look really clean.

In doing his project, I wanted to show the world a glimpse of my life. While completing this, I included details of my life in and out of school, as well as extracurricular activities that I am participating in. My goal was to at least scratch the surface of the many accomplishments I have made, and I what I still hope to accomplish. In order to do all of this, I created a homepage to introduce my viewers to my website, an about me page to give a little tidbit of my life, a project page to highlight a project I have completed, and a resume page to list my achievements. In addition to all this, I created a Gallery to explain the pictures I have on my website. A failure I encountered was that the explanation for my homepage got deleted. I overcame this by just making a new one, instead of wasting time complaining.

The reason why I decided to draw a dreamcatcher because they are used induce positive dreams and push away all negative dreams away. I enjoy having peaceful sleep and positive dreams because then I’m able to have an enjoyable next day. Overall I think I did this very well, but I do believe that this is good artwork, but I could have did a little better on the background. I expect my audience to notice the primary, secondary, tertiary and tints as well as the object that I drew. They should see how I worked the different colors into the dream catcher. There  is nothing right now that relates to this image, but I really enjoy the idea of me doing something new that I haven’t done before. I don’t think this piece really fits with contemporary art, but it could possible fit a little due to the colors.It can fit with the history of art because there was always color and color is still used in this time period as it has always been today.

Nathan Lewis

Art 2

Artist statement

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.