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This week’s assignment is to find something that demonstrates the importance of public pressure and getting large tech corporations to change a policy. Therefore I will be looking at the interest group, Greenpeace, and their “Unfriend Coal” campaign. The goals of this campaign were as followed; “• Increase its use of clean energy to makeContinue reading “Facebook and Greenpeace”

This week’s theme was journalists and trust in the media. One of the most predominant messages was that when someone attacks them is that they need to speak up and defend themselves and not wait for someone else to defend them. By waiting for someone else to defend them, then it can make seem lessContinue reading “This Week’s Post”

This week we were instructed to read an article or blog post from Santa Clara University – The Jesuit University In Silicon Valley : Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. The article I chose was “The Ethics of “Giving People a Voice” and Political Advertising on Facebook” by Irina Raicu written on December 5, 2019. IContinue reading “Social Media Ethics Article”

This week I will not be looking at the Instagram of the UN at Geneva. This is due to there being minimal posts about current events that are going on However, I can make a post about their Facebook because their Facebook has made posts about current events. They tend to post quotes from differentContinue reading “Current Events”

This week we were meant to find a meme about our topic. I’m sorry but this week my post will be short. This is due to unforeseen circumstances and I am sorry. About an hour ago I found out that my campus was going to close for the rest of the semester and move toContinue reading “A Short Post”

These past few weeks have left us in a state of powerlessness. COVID-19 has caused many to work from how, and myself included, many college campuses to close for the rest of the semester and switch to online learning methods. A lot has changed in the past few weeks and it was fast without anContinue reading “Powerlessness”

This week we will not discuss readings for class as much on the blog. However, we will discuss them a little in regards to bots and globalization. This week’s assignments for the blog was to find some, no too extreme, that has the opposite view of who we are following. Now, it was actually kindaContinue reading “Globalization and the United Nations”

This week’s readings talked a lot about social bots. Many of us, myself included, probably have a negative connotation when we think about bots and the internet. For me the first thing that pops into my mind is the 2016 presidential election and how the Russians used political bots to influence the United States elections.Continue reading “Social Bots”

This week instead of analyzing a reading in regards to the social media accounts we are following, I am going to share a video with you all. This video is less than two minutes long and it explains the basic functions of the United Nations as a whole and why it is important. I feelContinue reading “What is the United Nations?”

This week we will look at chapter 2 of the Power Paradox by Dacher Keltner and the Instagram of the United Nations at Geneva. Chapter 2 of this book talks about how power is earned and not given. There are four key principles when it comes to giving someone power. Those principles are “groups giveContinue reading “The Greater Good and the United Nations”