tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68121269214033642412024-03-07T03:35:21.466+00:00Social SongbirdYour birds-eye view of the digital world.Mili Poncehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10946153311679415691noreply@blogger.comBlogger4503125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812126921403364241.post-91619419150521097312023-10-18T01:10:00.007+00:002023-10-18T01:11:39.358+00:00The Role of Social Media in Conflict Zones: An In-depth Study on Ukraine, Israel, and Beyond<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The advent of social media has undeniably transformed the landscape of global communication. In conflict zones such as Ukraine and Israel, social media platforms are not just tools for sharing and receiving information but have become vital lifelines for survival, communication, and advocacy. This paper delves into the multifaceted role of social media in these contexts, revealing its potential to both aid and complicate conflict situations.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizQTyA7EuRQpxTTP5k6-0Bwu7aXylyMXXeXCv4xjtV-_uFeLoUa2lQ16MNpGQEJASmEMQMBB2sCei870un3Kenu6eqI995EBuuAk6voXeLfH09vh2XK3EHjUpUSeDVZgXqJZiOw3y-zKUtBM05mWRq4Sy0Zfy3Xb4pgRGthSOGxbzxX7JqRFigezNA/s859/Social%20Media%20in%20conflict%20zone.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="625" data-original-width="859" height="291" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizQTyA7EuRQpxTTP5k6-0Bwu7aXylyMXXeXCv4xjtV-_uFeLoUa2lQ16MNpGQEJASmEMQMBB2sCei870un3Kenu6eqI995EBuuAk6voXeLfH09vh2XK3EHjUpUSeDVZgXqJZiOw3y-zKUtBM05mWRq4Sy0Zfy3Xb4pgRGthSOGxbzxX7JqRFigezNA/w400-h291/Social%20Media%20in%20conflict%20zone.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Real-Time Information Dissemination</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the rapidly evolving environments of war zones, access to real-time information is not just crucial—it can often be a matter of life or death. Social media platforms like X, Facebook, and Telegram have filled this need in Ukraine and Israel. For instance, during the 2014 crisis in Ukraine, citizens, journalists, and even government officials relied heavily on X to share updates on the ground situation. The platform became a real-time news source, offering insights into the conflict that traditional media outlets could not provide.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Similarly, in the ongoing Israel-Palestine conflicts, social media has been instrumental in conveying real-time updates about missile attacks, military operations, and civilian casualties. This immediate access to information can help individuals make informed decisions about their safety, plan escape routes during attacks, or find safe shelters.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Humanitarian Aid Facilitation</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Beyond its function as a news dissemination tool, social media has also significantly mobilised humanitarian aid. Platforms like Facebook and Instagram have facilitated fundraising campaigns for medical supplies, food, and shelter for war-affected regions. In Ukraine, volunteers used social media to organize aid for soldiers and civilians alike. They coordinated logistics for food delivery, arranged transport for medical supplies, and even used these platforms to find accommodations for displaced people.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In Israel and Palestine, social media has been used to coordinate emergency responses during attacks. Platforms like X have been used to share locations of medical facilities, provide updates on available resources, and mobilize local and international support for those affected by conflict.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Connection Amidst Isolation</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In times of war, physical isolation becomes a harsh reality for many. However, social media provides a platform for connection amidst this isolation. Whether it's families keeping in touch when separated by conflict or communities rallying together for support and resilience, social media platforms have proven invaluable. In both Ukraine and Israel, social media has helped maintain a sense of community during times of upheaval. It has allowed people to share their experiences, offer emotional support to each other, and foster a sense of unity against adversity.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Social Media Saving Lives</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While there is a significant amount of data on the use of social media in conflict zones, specific statistics on the number of people saved through social media in wars are difficult to quantify and are not readily available. The complexity of conflict situations, coupled with the multifaceted role of social media in these contexts, makes it challenging to attribute survival rates directly to social media use.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">However, it is evident that social media platforms have played a crucial role in providing real-time information, facilitating humanitarian aid, and enabling connections during times of war, which undoubtedly has contributed to saving lives. For instance, during the 2011 Libyan Civil War, social media was extensively used as a tactic in armed conflict, <a href="https://www.discoursemagazine.ca/post-wars-how-social-media-is-reshaping-armed-conflicts/2021/11/15/"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>marking the start of its widespread use in such scenarios</b></span></a>.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Moreover, an estimated 4.4 to 4.6 billion people worldwide use social media platforms such as Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and X <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/25/the-big-idea-can-social-media-change-the-course-of-war">[1]</a>. During conflicts, these platforms become essential tools for sharing information about safe shelters, medical facilities, and aid distribution points, potentially saving countless lives.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Social media's impact extends beyond the immediate conflict zone. It also changes the modern war experience for <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/petersuciu/2022/06/07/social-media-is-impacting-military-performance-and-changing-the-nature-of-war/"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>military personnel and their families</b></span></a>, providing a communication channel that can contribute to their well-being and survival.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While we lack specific numbers, the critical role of social media in conflict zones underscores its potential to save lives and mitigate some of the devastating effects of war. However, more research is needed to quantify its precise impact on survival rates in these contexts.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">The Double-Edged Sword</span></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While the benefits of social media in conflict zones are clear, it's crucial to acknowledge its potential downsides. Misinformation can spread rapidly on these platforms, leading to unnecessary panic, escalating tensions, or even inciting violence. Furthermore, the open nature of social media can pose security risks, with sensitive information being exposed to adversarial parties. In both Ukraine and Israel, there have been instances of misinformation and propaganda spread through social media, exacerbating the already tense situations.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Conclusion</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Social media's role in conflict zones like Ukraine and Israel is a testament to its power as a communication tool. However, it is a double-edged sword that can either aid or complicate conflict situations. As its influence continues to grow, it is essential for users, stakeholders, and policymakers to understand and navigate its potential and pitfalls effectively. The future of conflict communication may very well hinge on how well we can harness the power of social media while mitigating its risks.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: "Droid Sans"; font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06666; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbTyDGgNUlzSxNI2myYttZ4ane_OB_gkoTpr1RzCHSPNgwItQGStrb05kbFdNlAtETHwex2G5O2yHKWMAJzgZNMoeUeTVewPWUDwTTlZcFTI4tUU9HL9EzejnyVBQOg1U4j14tlf056GaITEyS2WUGuVESaPO7hVQs3mNPPG6xkiozvvMXL6S980jY/s2560/Ukraine%20and%20IP%20video%20surveillance.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1440" data-original-width="2560" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbTyDGgNUlzSxNI2myYttZ4ane_OB_gkoTpr1RzCHSPNgwItQGStrb05kbFdNlAtETHwex2G5O2yHKWMAJzgZNMoeUeTVewPWUDwTTlZcFTI4tUU9HL9EzejnyVBQOg1U4j14tlf056GaITEyS2WUGuVESaPO7hVQs3mNPPG6xkiozvvMXL6S980jY/w640-h360/Ukraine%20and%20IP%20video%20surveillance.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Source: <a href="https://www.vitec.com/" target="_blank">VITEC</a></td></tr></tbody></table><b><div><b><br /></b></div><br /></b><p></p><p><b>How Has Video Become a Crucial Asset in Ukraine?</b></p><p><b><br /></b></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Technological innovations have widely been credited for helping Ukraine even the odds against Russia’s military might. Internet protocol-based video solutions are increasingly important in getting the best insights to the right people at the right time, especially in the context of C4ISR.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">C4ISR stands for Command, Control, Communications, Computers (C4) Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR). Advanced C4ISR capabilities offer players in active theatres of operation an opportunity to secure and maintain strategic and tactical advantage through enhanced situational awareness and knowledge of the adversary and environment by shortening the time between sensing and response.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here, Mark Rushton, Global Defence and Security Lead at </span><a href="https://www.vitec.com/" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>VITEC</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> shares more about the evolving role of IP video capture and distribution across intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance platforms in Ukraine.</span></span></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>The war in Ukraine has changed the role of video</b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As tragic as it is, we are in a space where video has become a crucial asset in wartime. Accessing video-based intelligence at the right time and place is a very effective method for gaining information about the constantly changing military landscape. As we have seen since the early days of the Ukrainian invasion, video plays a crucial role in showing hostile troop movements and the general disposition of the arena. Beyond simply capturing video, strategic and tactical decision-makers also benefit from the ability to quickly and appropriately share video-based intelligence. It has been critical in optimizing the efficacy of a smaller Ukrainian force by coordinating with coalition partners worldwide.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Video is proving effective for quickly disseminating information</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfn66elqanm0HSzHSmWvG_cCCApZAUE8f9o1zSgtyfzi6UpydxB-BcTLUmbf1kNIPeyFbMwO-JsXvfFYWnTGmh3R7WM4q30G-SigMYzgzU7tYGHFsNsVXv9lxU_5Vhn9AOe34ivmP_trHYJlXA_JNpf6YhD2X6Rh-lMrEWOCc-JcsM3qcRokGAyzzJ/s700/csm_military_base_station_signage_2ac86dd596.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="519" data-original-width="700" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfn66elqanm0HSzHSmWvG_cCCApZAUE8f9o1zSgtyfzi6UpydxB-BcTLUmbf1kNIPeyFbMwO-JsXvfFYWnTGmh3R7WM4q30G-SigMYzgzU7tYGHFsNsVXv9lxU_5Vhn9AOe34ivmP_trHYJlXA_JNpf6YhD2X6Rh-lMrEWOCc-JcsM3qcRokGAyzzJ/w400-h296/csm_military_base_station_signage_2ac86dd596.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Source: <a href="https://www.vitec.com/" target="_blank">VITEC</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In the past, video applications have been governed by military specifications that were often unique to individual countries or coalitions, which made sharing sensitive intelligence difficult. However, during the war in Ukraine, NATO has set a standard and has been able to communicate essential video intelligence with the Ukrainian military and first responders. It has enhanced the ability to attack a target while protecting — and recovering — from hostile actions.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">As important as the video content itself is, there is an even more critical element: metadata. Metadata is the information embedded within video files that allows users to identify the file’s characteristics, making it easier to search, use and manage the video while confirming the accuracy, credibility and utility of the intelligence captured.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Video metadata includes the date the video was created, the creator’s name, location, date of upload, and even the camera ID. Based on these, and other critical data points, staff and leaders can validate data and ensure proper handling and dissemination of information based on policies designed to protect assets, sources and methods.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For this reason, it is important to ensure interoperability at this metadata level.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Enhanced commercial standards are boosting the effectiveness of Ukraine’s defence</b></span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Streaming companies in the commercial space, such as Netflix and Amazon Prime, utilize video standards to compress data into formats that are streamed live or packaged up for efficient data downloads. Minimizing bandwidth while maintaining the best clarity and picture quality is a crucial business and economic factor.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It is also a critical issue in military theatres of operation. ISR video intelligence needs to be shared across a range of devices. Compression standards allow ISR infrastructures to be agnostic to the networking and endpoint environment.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As a result, while a wide variety of equipment is deployed in the field, the coalition partners supporting Ukraine can share data in a format that anybody can use. Utilizing the standardized codecs used for streaming video makes this manageable.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>What role do metadata and standards play in sharing and controlling data?</b></span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In wartime situations, like the war in Ukraine, it is vital to implement the most stringent security measures to protect video intelligence by securing lines of communication through encryption and other strict security practices, including proper authentication and authorization.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">IP video encryption is an essential layer of security that ensures data is safe — even if it is intercepted. There are many sources of video intelligence, including data that civilians provide. Citizens who are unable — or unwilling– to flee are making considerable contributions to intelligence efforts simply by utilizing their cell phones to post videos.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">To ensure their safety and ongoing participation in the intelligence-gathering process, measures must be put in place to protect citizens — as well as intelligence operatives, drone operators and military positions –. It is especially important now as Ukraine’s counter-insurgency and offensive gather steam.</span></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #0b5394;"><i>Mark Rushton </i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="color: #444444;">Leader in IP video technology for </span><a href="https://www.vitec.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>VITEC</b></span></a><span style="color: #444444;"> which is at the moment crucial in Ukraine's defence strategy. Mark and his team develop tools for real-time, encrypted video streaming across military networks, helping Ukraine and its allies share vital information efficiently.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><p></p>Mili Poncehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10946153311679415691noreply@blogger.com0Cambridge, UK52.1950788 0.131272930.38546907611121 -35.0249771 74.004688523888788 35.2875229tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812126921403364241.post-92135422982694455572023-07-24T19:05:00.009+00:002023-09-12T22:13:10.150+00:00Did Elon Musk Finally Killed Twitter?<div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho4W0GiBpYY7hWQIy1rggrjMMofGiDThFycd-Vzr_a7Km24prIEXeHBnMlRg5dPNJRIFE7pjRyacXQuURgkxtp-qLTZv4XBzfsdIPViTtZLUpL2y2YpcdWzrnxYR_TKFNp9apvD3VTgX7QjlYnKUOUD0x9iyS0RbP-0E3xVyEJ-g-Lt0_ZXvpConJ9/s1140/Twitter_Inc_now_officially_merged_into_X_Corp_what_does_it_mean.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="1140" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEho4W0GiBpYY7hWQIy1rggrjMMofGiDThFycd-Vzr_a7Km24prIEXeHBnMlRg5dPNJRIFE7pjRyacXQuURgkxtp-qLTZv4XBzfsdIPViTtZLUpL2y2YpcdWzrnxYR_TKFNp9apvD3VTgX7QjlYnKUOUD0x9iyS0RbP-0E3xVyEJ-g-Lt0_ZXvpConJ9/w400-h264/Twitter_Inc_now_officially_merged_into_X_Corp_what_does_it_mean.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Whether you like Twitter or you never used it, the news of Twitter rebranding to X is a bit of a shock to everyone.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This move comes after Elon Musk announced the change over the weekend. The change is already live on the website. Notably, Musk tweeted that x.com now also redirects to twitter.com</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span></span><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/AishaS/status/1683467532689108994" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="674" data-original-width="949" height="454" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpMLa757TLu8CWvN_XknooNxLo3DUMnRe6IrGYEhP0dtq4rC13zAY7deDxtuK3L5dyq-5ucCcxfm5iH4R_aTl97f0NqMUf4e60cgpZoMglxxAXJ5K-j-en-819IN21wnmCe9zlplrkmuRPoM0kH-2QxrUU7YifI6S5ugnwDaUpGfnQ9jCwovC1NIK2/w640-h454/twitter%20change%203.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Was this the best time to rebrand Twitter? Was this the best decision? Seems that most people don't think so.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you go to x.com you can already see the bird replaced by the X.</span></div></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/MiliPonce" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1847" data-original-width="1300" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQ4t5oSg-i35rKgmMVhXDm5LMUik8HRm2ZKyV2ypi2j5OEfdG6uEKy70Dbvg5HcUbkpX6vhFW1RXuSUt4ps3lFuKNwlcpQPdog53WVzaRIxjIyQ-5L0gULXnEe_ugJkAlFgF-bmH8t9fMB5T_J5neg--AogQsF4RyJLVaY4Oyj1j12WOf6_x4Wu83w/w450-h640/Twitter%20changing%20to%20X.PNG" width="450" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Why did he decide to change the brand?</b></div></b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Since Musk bought Twitter in October 2022, the company has changed its business name to X Corp, reflecting his vision to create a “super app” like China's WeChat. Last October, he said that “buying Twitter is an accelerant to creating X, the everything app”.</span></div></span><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/zeekodatjit/status/1683527787452219393" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="596" data-original-width="936" height="255" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg74qoveDXq6K1C9okVJX_ifNz2ZDEv2hctjwYdSnpk9SOfeB0bKYHkRdkpZbMROcV4vDVkKIxz7ZzKZda7BoN3h_Wz6KmpWXUuLhD-kGz-waol7DI8-0MIin4WbGHTN5bpspC3O6pS5zQ050agzn2mJWroa7VXAfWEcXEOqT1AEE-R568szgX652F3/w400-h255/Twitter%20x%20change%202.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Twitter’s corporate accounts also adopted the new branding, which was projected onto the side of the company’s headquarters in San Francisco overnight. “Lights. Camera. X!” Linda Yaccarino, Twitter’s chief executive, </span><a href="https://twitter.com/lindayacc/status/1683357189589663744" style="font-family: inherit;">posted on the site</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, accompanying a photo of the building.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6AoMBtmNMa2shQtNlzh_vV9s1DwJiwbvJM5ew4pHo8YGfXADR8RkLWWdOJprSqXtjDkU-_wpHa7i2Axj8f_sbUTWXxob-tQxRB_F2Ld55yIGGzkBtSzEhLeaHTvCpUN7XS7dJSitl0cNQrvJEsWI2qF3gTOHCEH9Byt_1v8awik9NBzloxvtRbCt3/s969/Twitter%20changes%20to%20X.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="969" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6AoMBtmNMa2shQtNlzh_vV9s1DwJiwbvJM5ew4pHo8YGfXADR8RkLWWdOJprSqXtjDkU-_wpHa7i2Axj8f_sbUTWXxob-tQxRB_F2Ld55yIGGzkBtSzEhLeaHTvCpUN7XS7dJSitl0cNQrvJEsWI2qF3gTOHCEH9Byt_1v8awik9NBzloxvtRbCt3/w400-h254/Twitter%20changes%20to%20X.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Many people seem to be sharing their feelings about it.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span face="Google Sans, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Google Sans, arial, sans-serif" style="color: #202124;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/shooter_breeze/status/1683484873388859394" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="967" data-original-width="934" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2a6INEf0crjkm_yPcoUZIES8eBkxnMogiUrT1RcGsKvGHMWK9gv7M4K6b3a7GwO2BHdrFFQC67-W4bzWr__Kk-2-Q7fwO_t2AOGTQi4e7HfUCuvlIgS-qr-19EGMwil7HpjVgaTvoB0S111Nt3hihTMAgps_wmvimVFfMNa06FgOYC6O5q9dTKfm8/w386-h400/twitter%20change%201.PNG" width="386" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Modi__108/status/1683493518856138752" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="855" data-original-width="926" height="369" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMcU8hvw_5ajZ_-xOpO3RZcT1LTKXt8_W5jJQ7Z2v7rvA2KQog-FfwStfi5HdYAu0yoYAu8PTNtYtbXgRM72ssIvDDDGcWp5sPzngTb_5rOtkHPcT7QUOhdKzEvLJPY7Pt2K1gkvzactTmAYPmjGeU_87ld6Y96NVj-OX46LZhp4QUWoydNf8tJMDq/w400-h369/dead%20Twitter.PNG" width="400" /></a></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mr Musk has had a long affinity for the letter X. In 1999, he co-founded </span><a href="http://x.com/" style="font-family: inherit;">X.com</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, an online bank, and later merged it with another start-up to create PayPal. In 2017, he said that he </span><a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/884580654117076992" style="font-family: inherit;">repurchased the X.com domain</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> from PayPal.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Mr Musk has not always followed through on his public pronouncements, such as when he </span><a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586059953311137792?s=20&t=R3XR-ma2Rm3MsF2Ho5d0HA" style="font-family: inherit;">tweeted</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> that the company would create a </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/28/technology/twitter-elon-musk-content-moderation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare" style="font-family: inherit;">content moderation council</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> to judge what kind of speech is acceptable on the site.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But he has pressed ahead in altering certain Twitter practices, like </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/20/technology/twitter-blue-check-marks.html" style="font-family: inherit;">ending the free verification</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> of prominent users’ accounts, denoted by a white-and-blue check mark, and charging users a subscription fee for the check mark instead.</span></div></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So what do you think? Will this finally kill Twitter/X or would it be a good new start?</span></div></span></div></div></div></div></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: "Droid Sans"; font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06666; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; 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font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>Mili Poncehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10946153311679415691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812126921403364241.post-26896120410304033682023-07-10T10:48:00.007+00:002023-10-18T01:10:33.760+00:00Proven Ways Your Business can Benefit from Affordable Video Marketing in 2023<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img height="360" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/HpR-HLMZAIsq-U78G0NsnPFHq3-OwGUpl2C-tFY0vqsGsUtxfHOqMPnOCeXGS76EoTfmz0u_qPiMa2_PGRlzR4j95C7-iCElqmWMpN1A9y_hiZUKR_KDp2ddu8p25VRs_h-gM6L38gM3d4Mo6g4u=w640-h360" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="640" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image courtesy of Unsplash</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">With <a href="https://www.oberlo.com/blog/youtube-statistics" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>over a billion hours of videos</b></span></a> being watched on YouTube every day according to Oberlo, it's no secret that video is a powerful marketing tool. But what many small business owners don't realize is that video marketing doesn't have to be expensive or time-consuming. In this blog post, we will show you how to create cost-effective, engaging videos that will help promote your business and reach your target market.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Understand the Categories of Video Marketing</b></div></b><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are four main types of video content that businesses can produce:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">● Explainer videos: <a href="https://www.thedvigroup.com/video-production-blog/types-of-explainer-videos-examples/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>These are usually short videos</b></span></a> (1-2 minutes) designed to educate viewers about a product or service.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">● Brand videos: These videos are all about building awareness for your business. They introduce viewers to your company and highlight what makes you unique.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">● How-to videos: As the name suggests, these videos show viewers how to do something, usually something related to your product or service. How-to videos can be short or long (depending on the complexity of the task) and often make use of on-screen text or voiceovers to provide instructions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">● <a href="https://www.wyzowl.com/how-to-create-a-testimonial-video/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Testimonial videos</b></span></a>: These videos feature satisfied customers talking about their experience with your product or service. Testimonial videos can be short or long, but they should always be genuine and authentic.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Identify Your Target Market</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Before you <a href="https://www.zenbusiness.com/blog/videomarketing/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>start producing video content</b></span></a>, you must understand who your target market is. This will help you customize your videos to appeal to the people who are most likely to buy from you.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Once you know who your target market is, ask yourself the following questions:</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">● What challenges do they face?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">● What solutions are they looking for?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">● How can I help them?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Estimating the Cost of Production</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One may think that video marketing is too expensive. However, with a little bit of planning, Looka points out that it's easy to produce high-quality video content <a href="https://looka.com/blog/video-recording-tips/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">while keeping to a tight budget</span></b></a>. The first step is estimating the cost of production, and the next is looking for ways to achieve what you want while saving money at the same time. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For example, </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">● This could be using stock footage (more on that below) instead of shooting fresh footage. Once you have an estimate for the cost of production, set a budget and stick to it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">● Learning To Use Royalty-Free Stock Footage</div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you are working with a limited budget, one way to save money on video production costs is by using royalty-free stock footage. Royalty-free stock footage is professional-quality footage that can be used without having to pay any additional fees. You can find royalty-free stock footage online from sites.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">● Using AI tools </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nowadays you can find a<a href="https://neilchasefilm.com/ai-video-editor/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b> variety of AI tools</b></span></a> to create amazing videos and add to them more footage if you want.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">How much is the average cost of creating a video?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If you have a home business or you are a startup you can make professional-looking videos with a budget of £100 - £3000 depending on the type of video.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">You can even make great professional videos for less than £100 with AI tools. They are easy to use and in most cases, you do not need to know much about video editing.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Where to post?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Before you start creating videos, you need to decide where to publish them. This is a critical consideration for any content marketing strategy, as it will need to be geared toward the destinations your audience frequents. To find out the ins and outs of content marketing and the unique role it plays in your overall marketing efforts, you can click here.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Consider the <a href="https://www.lemonlight.com/blog/20-places-to-post-your-video-for-maximum-reach/#:~:text=Your%20social%20media%20accounts%20%E2%80%93%20Your,share%20your%20latest%20video%20content." target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>available platforms with their advantages and disadvantages</b></span></a>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For example,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">YouTube is the largest video platform in the world. However, it can be a challenge to make a mark and you may need to invest in paid advertising to reach a wide audience.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Alternatively, you could publish videos on your website or blog and on your social media like Instagram. This allows you more control over the presentation of your videos and allows you to build loyal viewers for your brand.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ultimately, the best platform for publishing videos will depend on your specific goals and target audience. Take time to research your options for what fits your needs and your audience.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Gauging Success</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Video marketing is a complex beast, but it doesn't have to be. There are a few key metrics you can focus on to get a clear picture of how your videos are performing. First, take a look at how <a href="https://www.shopify.com/blog/6763696-youtube-analytics-10-ways-to-track-video-performance" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>many views your videos are getting</b></span></a>. Also, pay attention to the engagement. This will give you an idea of how engaged viewers are with your marketing. Finally, don't forget to track any sales or leads that come in as a result of your video content. Checking all these factors you will get a good sense of how successful your video marketing efforts are.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Video marketing is a great way to connect with customers and create a connection that leads to conversions. If you’re not currently using video marketing as part of your content marketing strategy, it’s time to start. And if you are using it, but aren’t seeing the results you want, maybe it’s time to try some of these tips.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="color: #a64d79;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span class="il">Erica</span> Francis</span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></span></i></div><div><span face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><span style="color: #444444;">Erica has an important mission: to help young people prepare for successful careers in today’s tough job market. At <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://readyjob.org&source=gmail&ust=1689068929959000&usg=AOvVaw1EOrqwExCxjwJqKSuRjAOF" href="http://readyjob.org/" target="_blank">Ready Job</a>, <span class="il">Erica</span> helps develop lesson plans and other educational resources, all geared toward helping the site’s visitors build the skills needed to excel in any workplace.</span></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">
</span></span></div><div><i style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></i></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Mili Poncehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10946153311679415691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812126921403364241.post-89797582393609144302023-06-12T23:36:00.010+00:002023-09-12T21:56:10.279+00:00Reddit Goes Dark<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Some of Reddit's most popular communities have gone dark in protest against pricing changes.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The platform's main subreddits for </span><a href="https://news.sky.com/topic/gaming-9578" style="font-family: inherit;">gaming</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, which has more than 37 million members; </span><a href="https://news.sky.com/topic/music-6120" style="font-family: inherit;">music</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, which has 32.3 million; and r/todayilearned, a page dedicated to sharing facts with 31.8 million users, are among those shutting down.</span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Pages dedicated to specific fandoms, including <a href="https://news.sky.com/topic/harry-potter-6774">Harry Potter</a> and <a href="https://news.sky.com/topic/taylor-swift-6923">Taylor Swift</a>, have also decided to go offline.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS8q3rDwsYkbajZFpIBp3CA5_XsrcBQW6maox-2OGjXrujZ3ZsHIn-iSKPqm3FdcOFEgK4bwVphGGnzpsVBZOA1JQ71d0DLRO0TMkcJ4DdhjE5l7umV3JkVFnMp-MUZOH-YfLtBI5kDz9yTjcwbkG5-UIgtBTLn-PyYt8O2WoR5IWYcBPzAA12GQ/s1386/reddit%20goes%20dark.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="1386" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiS8q3rDwsYkbajZFpIBp3CA5_XsrcBQW6maox-2OGjXrujZ3ZsHIn-iSKPqm3FdcOFEgK4bwVphGGnzpsVBZOA1JQ71d0DLRO0TMkcJ4DdhjE5l7umV3JkVFnMp-MUZOH-YfLtBI5kDz9yTjcwbkG5-UIgtBTLn-PyYt8O2WoR5IWYcBPzAA12GQ/w640-h362/reddit%20goes%20dark.png" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Reddit heavily relies on community moderation, with tens of thousands of unpaid moderators, or "mods," ensuring the functionality of the website. However, Reddit does not charge hosting fees for individuals who want to create their own communities based on specific interests.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The blackout involved over 7,000 subreddits, including some of the most popular ones such as r/gaming, r/aww, r/Music, r/todayilearned, and r/pics. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">A subreddit is the name given to a forum within the Reddit platform - effectively a community of people who gather to discuss a particular interest.</span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The goal of the protest was to demonstrate the collective power of the moderators and highlight their importance to the site's operations.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reddit's CEO, Steve Huffman, acknowledged the blackout and stated that Reddit needs to be a self-sustaining business. He affirmed that explicit content would remain on the site but announced restrictions on how it can be accessed through third-party apps.</span></div></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In a post to the website on Friday, Reddit chief executive Steve Huffman said it "needs to be a self-sustaining business" and addressed the blackout.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"We respect when you and your communities take action to highlight the things you need, including, at times, going private," he said.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"We are all responsible for ensuring Reddit provides an open accessible place for people to find community and belonging."</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">He also confirmed that explicit content would remain on the site, but Reddit would limit how it can be accessed from third-party apps.</span></div></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The protest aimed to send a message to Reddit admins, emphasizing the reliance on moderators and expressing opposition to the changes. Some subreddits indicated that they might continue the blackout or restrict their communities further until Reddit reverses its policies.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The charges imposed by Reddit on third-party app developers have been criticized as excessive, leading some developers to shut down their apps. However, Reddit defended the charges, stating that they are based on usage levels and are necessary to support third-party apps and cover hosting costs.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Third-party apps such as Apollo, Reddit is Fun, Sync and ReddPlanet were set up as a way for people to access the platform on their mobile devices before Reddit came up with an app, until then Reddit was a web-only Social Network.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All four of these apps have said they will be shutting down as a result of Reddit's new API pricing. The situation is evolving, and the duration and impact of the blackout may vary across different subreddits. It's advisable to refer to the latest updates from Reddit and the specific communities involved for the most accurate and up-to-date information.</span></div></span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: "Droid Sans"; font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06666; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; 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border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"> /in/MiliPonce</span> </span></p></div>Mili Poncehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10946153311679415691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812126921403364241.post-63948406871219891852023-03-10T17:59:00.000+00:002023-07-24T19:05:55.839+00:00We waited 30 years to know what will be the next "Thing" to change the world again - ChatGPT<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence chatbot developed by OpenAI and launched in November 2022. It is built on top of OpenAI's GPT-3 family of large language models and has been fine-tuned using both supervised and reinforcement learning techniques. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer follow-up questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEtO0FopsWEruDmN3P6EH2g2pXxQ44i4Lw-UVLTxKU0C90Q1JYkrHeHOfwhlnFvnE9RKEP36S6DfrFQq9sA_MEalCOxQ0RUOxEbQV9YekhCEy7vS3HcKZQ-ztXXhVG574iFWQlQ2UN1y9M6USwOxNnWougatG9kjQmmr7Gysq0gjXrWmzp-2_pEg/s1200/inteligencia_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="545" data-original-width="1200" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEtO0FopsWEruDmN3P6EH2g2pXxQ44i4Lw-UVLTxKU0C90Q1JYkrHeHOfwhlnFvnE9RKEP36S6DfrFQq9sA_MEalCOxQ0RUOxEbQV9YekhCEy7vS3HcKZQ-ztXXhVG574iFWQlQ2UN1y9M6USwOxNnWougatG9kjQmmr7Gysq0gjXrWmzp-2_pEg/w400-h181/inteligencia_1.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>11 Things You Can Do With ChatGPT</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Beyond the hype and buzz surrounding ChatGPT, what immediate real-world uses can you try right now? Ready to explore? Here are 11 cool day-to-day uses for chatGPT.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>1. Quickly Write a Customized Resume and Cover Letter</b></span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you're currently job-hunting, one of the most tiring parts of the job application process is writing a personalized resume and cover letter for every job you apply for. Unfortunately, you can't simply write one copy for every job. ChatGPT is one of </span><a href="https://www.makeuseof.com/make-resume-on-phone/" style="font-family: inherit;">the quickest ways to make a resume online</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. It can help relieve you of the burden of customizing each resume for each job posting in just a few seconds.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>2. Create Original Jokes</b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">What's life without a bit of fun? Whether you're looking for a good laugh or to create some hilarious jokes to impress your friends, ChatGPT can come in handy. Sure, AI chatbots aren't exactly known to be great comedians, but ChatGPT shows some potential. We asked ChatGPT to tell us a joke about Apple and foldable smartphones; we'll let you judge the results:</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>3. Explain Complex Topics</b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Sometimes, simply Googling a topic doesn't give you a clear understanding. Think of topics like wormholes, dark matter, and all those head-spinning theories from your Master's degree program. Or maybe it's a weird sport you don't understand or whose rules make no sense.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ChatGPT could be useful in explaining them in layman's terms. We prompted ChatGPT to "Explain wormhole like I'm 5," and here's the result.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>4. Solve Tricky Math Problems Step-by-Step</b></span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whether you're looking to tackle complex algebra problems or simple math problems that are too tricky to piece together, ChatGPT is particularly strong in handling math. You'll need to present your problems clearly and concisely for the best results. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>5. Get Relationship Advice</b></span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">ChatGPT, just like any AI system, can't exactly understand emotions. However, it can still provide useful tips for managing relationships with friends, family, and loved ones. It can be your personal therapist or relationship expert if you give it the right prompts.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>6. Write Music In Almost Any Genre</b></span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">One of ChatGPT's greatest strengths is its "learned creativity." Unlike some AI solutions, ChatGPT doesn't just deal with soulless robotic concepts. It is also versed in creative endeavors, including writing music. You can write just about any song in most major music genres. We prompted ChatGPT to write a rap song on Elon Musk, and here's part of its response:</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>7. Write, Debug, and Explain Code</b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Whether you're an experienced programmer or a newbie, you're bound to run into a few bugs in your code from time to time. ChatGPT can help you narrow down the problem within your code, saving you hours looking for a misplaced comma. You can also write entire blocks of functional code snippets from scratch. However, deploying ChatGPT code to a production server might not be an entirely great idea.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>8. Create Content In Multiple Languages</b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you're a content creator that would love to reach a wider audience, ChatGPT could be incredibly useful for creating content in multiple languages. Sure, there's </span><a href="https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/instantly-translate-text-android-using-google-translate-app/" style="font-family: inherit;">Google Translate</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, but writing in one language and translating to the other means a lot of contexts and language-specific tones could be lost. ChatGPT can create content directly in several languages. Chinese? Check. Spanish? Check. French? Check. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>9. Prepare for a Job Interview</b></span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With its wealth of knowledge across several fields, ChatGPT is one of the best AI tools to help you prepare for a job interview. You can use it to generate hypothetical scenarios in a job interview, possible questions, intelligent replies to possible questions, and many other useful interview prep tips. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>10. Write Essays on Almost Any Topic</b></span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">While we strongly advise you to write your essays yourself, ChatGPT can compose amazing essays on a wide range of topics, even the most complex. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>11. A Chat Companion</b></span></div></span></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">When all is said and done, ChatGPT is an AI chatbot. Despite its almost endless use cases, you'll find ChatGPT a very accommodating companion when you need someone (or a robot) to talk to.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-oAsGhk2zB7ULh-KZtFjYE0A4UMlJRsbVX9KSKtXp0MfX_Wlafl1GnJODua4zSyF8jcpM1Z2VykBDdygt69QC-dMmFWCKIZYdKWtcNyxU4K6q9eC9fbu_UrvJxWh_GHguuow3gyAGTltJoYc1ob5IxAgc0t2ZfJC1hgKiQHLFf_Ts6EwuiATEEg/s750/gettyimages-1462188008_750xx4429-2491-0-228.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="421" data-original-width="750" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-oAsGhk2zB7ULh-KZtFjYE0A4UMlJRsbVX9KSKtXp0MfX_Wlafl1GnJODua4zSyF8jcpM1Z2VykBDdygt69QC-dMmFWCKIZYdKWtcNyxU4K6q9eC9fbu_UrvJxWh_GHguuow3gyAGTltJoYc1ob5IxAgc0t2ZfJC1hgKiQHLFf_Ts6EwuiATEEg/w400-h225/gettyimages-1462188008_750xx4429-2491-0-228.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Why ChatGPT could change society forever</b></span><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Business:</b></span></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chat GPT can transform how businesses operate by providing instant access to information and insights. With the help of this tool and using them with business applications, it can provide real-time analytics and recommendations, helping businesses make better decisions and stay ahead of the competition.</span></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><b>Education:</b></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chat GPT has the potential to enhance and revolutionize the field of education.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By providing personalized tutoring and feedback, Chat GPT could help students learn more efficiently and effectively.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are a few examples of how Chat GPT could be used in education: Personalized learning: Chat GPT could be used to create customized lesson plans and exercises based on a student’s learning style and needs. Real-time feedback: Chat GPT could provide real-time feedback on a student’s work, helping them to identify and correct mistakes on the spot.Virtual tutoring: Chat GPT could be used to provide virtual tutoring, allowing students to get one-on-one help from the comfort of their own homes.Language learning: Chat GPT could be used to help students learn a new language by providing personalized exercises and feedback on their speaking and writing skills.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Languages and translation:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Chat GPT has the potential to greatly improve the accuracy and naturalness of real-time language translation.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By using chat GPT to power translation tools, users can communicate with people who speak different languages in a more seamless and natural way.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are a few examples of how chat GPT could be used in language translation: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">1. Real-time translation: Chat GPT could be used to provide real-time translation of spoken or written language, allowing users to communicate with each other in real time even if they don’t speak the same language. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">2. Accurate and natural translations: Chat GPT can generate translations that are more accurate and natural-sounding than those produced by traditional translation tools. This can help reduce misunderstandings and improve the overall quality of communication. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">3. Language learning: Chat GPT could be used to help language learners practice their speaking and writing skills by providing real-time feedback and corrections.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Potential Ethical Concerns With Chat GPT</b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As with any new technology, chat GPT raises a number of ethical concerns that need to be carefully considered.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Here are a few potential ethical concerns to consider when it comes to Chat GPT: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Bias:</b> Chat GPT is trained on large datasets of text, and these datasets can contain biased language and viewpoints. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">This can lead to chat GPT generating biased output, which could have negative consequences for groups of people who are unfairly represented or marginalized in the training data. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Privacy:</b> Chat GPT requires a large amount of data to be effective, and this data may include sensitive personal information. </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">This raises concerns about the privacy and security of this data, and who has access to it. </span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Accountability:</b> If chat GPT is used to make important decisions or take actions on behalf of a company or individual, it’s important to consider who is accountable for the outcomes.</span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For example, if chat GPT makes a mistake in customer service or translation, who is responsible for correcting it?</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It’s important to carefully consider these and other ethical concerns when using chat GPT.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">By raising awareness and having open discussions about these issues, we can help ensure that chat GPT is used in a responsible and ethical way.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); 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Is the Fediverse the Future of Social Media?<p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Searches for ‘Mastodon’ social have risen 4,404% in the UK in November and December as Elon Musk’s Twitter overhaul divides users, prompting users to switch to alternative platforms.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJQ7UT__Of2OnEj8RalG1DJid6IQTFHTzHpKqWGTDboLNwJFscS3HM0Qh-MOZ4cPTzPAsYILRPjQjMxFI578rwpQQWUtZZnFlWwgqQB9TH6LqQCAN6OcaMwtBKewKpZSpLy7OrlWIhxCMe86zK5P2KN_1B_SxFyUs70NL2rclQYDMKME7dYxGs0g/s1991/mastodon-twitter-1534869945.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="989" data-original-width="1991" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJQ7UT__Of2OnEj8RalG1DJid6IQTFHTzHpKqWGTDboLNwJFscS3HM0Qh-MOZ4cPTzPAsYILRPjQjMxFI578rwpQQWUtZZnFlWwgqQB9TH6LqQCAN6OcaMwtBKewKpZSpLy7OrlWIhxCMe86zK5P2KN_1B_SxFyUs70NL2rclQYDMKME7dYxGs0g/w640-h318/mastodon-twitter-1534869945.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a22777589/what-is-mastodon-twitter-platform/">Esquire.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><h4 style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; font-weight: 400; line-height: 29px; margin: 24px auto 14px; text-align: justify;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">What is Mastodon?</span></strong></h4><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Mastodon is a micro-blogging platform, similar to Twitter in some respects – and vastly different in others. It was founded in 2016 by now-29-year-old German programmer, Eugen Rochko.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">On Twitter, users post short comments or messages. Mastodon has a 500-character limit as opposed to the 280 characters possible on Twitter. These messages can be accompanied by links, pictures and videos. Users can follow people that they are interested in, and in some cases, send private messages (although this is reported to be unencrypted and accessible to the admins of the server the recipient is on; do not trust a DM to <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">always</em> be private).</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; line-height: 25px; margin: 0px auto 26px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The big difference is that Twitter is owned and controlled by an erratic billionaire. Mastodon has no owner. It’s a distributed group of independent servers sharing open-source code. That shared code links them together in a federated model that many refer to as the “Fediverse.” The central body, if there is one, is a not-for-profit called Mastodon, but as Rochko has pointed out, even if someone were to buy or take control of that not-for-profit, it would not be able to control the federation of communities nor the software which is <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">irrevocably open sourced</em>.</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;">There have been over 920,000 searches for Mastodon worldwide this month so far, with 51,000 searches from the UK and 405,000 from the U.S.</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The popularity of Mastodon increased when Stephen Fry made public that h was moving to Mastodon and since then other well-known celebrities have done the same.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Since <a href="http://twitter.com/elonmusk" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Elon Musk</b></span></a> became Twitter’s CEO, There have been over 920,000 searches for <a href="https://mastodonapp.uk/"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Mastodon</b></span></a> worldwide this month so far, with 51,000 searches from the UK and 405,000 from the U.S.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is an increase of over 45 the average search interest when compared to national average levels in the UK over the last five years. There are similar increases seen worldwide and in the U.S., with search interest levels rising over 21 and 14 times above average levels, respectively.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The peak of the trend coincides firstly with when Elon Musk began cracking down on parody accounts, such as banning comedian Kathy Griffin and then mentioning Mastodon in a now-deleted tweet, driving users to the Twitter-alternative platform.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Searches for ‘Delete Twitter’ have also surged by 201% in the U.S. and 102% worldwide in the last month.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There have been 129,000 searches for ‘Delete Twitter’ worldwide in the past month, with 33,000 searches from the U.S. and 8,400 from the UK.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This could mean that Elon Musk’s Twitter overhaul and his tweets have caused almost one million users to seek alternative platforms.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Is Twitter losing followers?</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-UkAzueA5axFbgL_MEIwim6JH_g6bzylVJ4orJOS8-hw0SRChloFIOZ3eBjJvMbXqd-gg7C1clCuRZmQPBC23rz-ZWR3otILC9qrDXnfyWUy0YgeJNG6RMfU8hMTFROMMxgzppn4qKdTi8Tie-OVF5ZTrQlc4afyE-8t0b8IvRSUBZgp1ktk9BQ/s640/mastodon3.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="362" data-original-width="640" height="362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-UkAzueA5axFbgL_MEIwim6JH_g6bzylVJ4orJOS8-hw0SRChloFIOZ3eBjJvMbXqd-gg7C1clCuRZmQPBC23rz-ZWR3otILC9qrDXnfyWUy0YgeJNG6RMfU8hMTFROMMxgzppn4qKdTi8Tie-OVF5ZTrQlc4afyE-8t0b8IvRSUBZgp1ktk9BQ/w640-h362/mastodon3.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span><br /></span></span></b></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Twitter’s daily user growth hit “all-time highs” during the first full week of Elon Musk owning the platform, according to a company document obtained by <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/7/23445476/elon-musk-twitter-user-growth-all-time-high-advertisers" target="_blank">The Verge</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/27/23184519/elon-musk-twitter-acquisition-deal-complete-agreement">Since Musk’s dramatic takeover</a>, Twitter’s monetizable daily user (mDAU) growth has accelerated to more than 20 percent, while “Twitter’s largest market, the US, is growing even more quickly,” according to an internal FAQ obtained by The Verge.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Is Twitter going down since Elon Musk acquisition?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Well, here are some statistics that say the contrary.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><ol style="background-color: white; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #4b4f58; list-style-image: initial; list-style-position: initial; margin: 0px 0px 1.5em 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The majority of Twitter’s audience (38.5%) belongs to the 25 to 34 age group.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitter’s brand value growth rate in 2022 was 85%. Facebook growth was an average of 1.6% per quarter.</li><li style="border: 0px; box-sizing: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Twitter has a 56.4% male audience and 43.6% female audience.</li></ol></div></span><span><div style="text-align: justify;">However, while Mastodon is more welcoming to new users, there are still three features it quickly needs to do in order to be the successor to Twitter, before another platform like Hive overtakes it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXtA9UFTHwwaW06Ba2pKON1hE47APqufks3ru0pJOLwOOFws0VaJdz7SiMjMmYqTzFtjeDPO_slbLo0Beu_HFccx4DyWthPbXA4rMtrfLwYI4q-hIqXifP9zKC_EuffYD4BH4G69fwM8e6TpATOhVhXsAIfszBbZeqfArprKspclPWKqfAvlWguQ/s768/iji68jeprdwx8dat_1652023704.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="768" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXtA9UFTHwwaW06Ba2pKON1hE47APqufks3ru0pJOLwOOFws0VaJdz7SiMjMmYqTzFtjeDPO_slbLo0Beu_HFccx4DyWthPbXA4rMtrfLwYI4q-hIqXifP9zKC_EuffYD4BH4G69fwM8e6TpATOhVhXsAIfszBbZeqfArprKspclPWKqfAvlWguQ/w640-h366/iji68jeprdwx8dat_1652023704.webp" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></span><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">So, what are the problems with Mastodon?</span></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Apart from the initial teething troubles and moving away from the ‘blue bird’, there are other problems with using Mastodon.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The single most glaring issue with Mastodon is that you are left at the whim of the person or organisation running your server. A Mastodon server admin has ultimate control over everything you do — if they decide to abandon it, you lose your account.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A server admin could also snoop on private toots if they wanted to – or delete an account for any reason.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">On the issue, Rochko has said that new users should look at who runs the server before they join it. He was quoted as telling <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">The Guardian</em>, “Is it an organisation that has a track record, is trustworthy, is likely to be around for a long time, but also has a moderation policy?”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">He explains further, “The ‘good ones’ have rules against hate speech, and provide basic necessities like backups, so if one of the admins gets hit by a bus, the server does not disappear.”</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">He added that Mastodon includes a list of vetted servers on its homepage that meet these criteria.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Maybe give Mastodon a try and share with us your experience on our <a href="http://twitter.com/socialsongbird_" target="_blank">Twitter Account</a>.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Recommended reading:</b></span></p><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2022/11/14/twitter-would-need-64-million-subscribers-to-replace-existing-revenue-and-cover-existing-losses/">https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2022/11/14/twitter-would-need-64-million-subscribers-to-replace-existing-revenue-and-cover-existing-losses/</a><br /><a href="https://portalcripto.com.br/o-que-e-mastodon-social-app-alternativa-ao-twitter/">https://portalcripto.com.br/o-que-e-mastodon-social-app-alternativa-ao-twitter/</a><br /><a href="https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a22777589/what-is-mastodon-twitter-platform/">https://www.esquire.com/lifestyle/a22777589/what-is-mastodon-twitter-platform/</a></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); 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font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; line-height: 24px; margin: 0px 0px 20px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p></div>Mili Poncehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10946153311679415691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812126921403364241.post-50957508718532260252022-11-08T16:31:00.020+00:002023-06-13T00:15:47.276+00:00Fediverse: Decentralised social media, owned by the people that use it?<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/the-fediverse-decentralized-social-media-for-human-beings/" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMp01tQT0jQiRdIvA3UzNgs7vGHsMZ2xnEjo_VFwggC2L904FRwWPpLSWhJpe2Mr43DCbP4VvgoDg-RPzvsfZrl0dKd8lOAV-vd21WUtWh6U7AnlYMZZjA-LUcQ4FXQTgOTYMrM1_3Yb7snpwqIk6FspcUTCjXiAcAkfyRKywDRb_mLNKW5G-XQg/w640-h360/fediverse-1200x675.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">After Elon Musk bought Twitter the discussion about free speech and controlled social media has increased.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><b style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Should companies like Meta and Twitter be owned by a single person?</b></div></b><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><b style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Should they have control over what can be said publicly?</b></div></b><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><b style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Are they the right people to control free speech?</b></div></b></span><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><b style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">What are Decentralized Social Networks?</b></div></b><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Decentralized social networks operate on independently run servers, rather than on a centralized server owned by a business. Mastodon is one example of a decentralized social network.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><b style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Decentralized Social Media Platforms Aren’t New, They Just Aren’t Popular</b></div></b><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But they might hold the key to addressing the problems we have with social media.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We are well aware of the role that technology giants have played in politics, social issues, and even our mental health.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We understood how Facebook </span><a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/topics/c81zyn0888lt/facebook-cambridge-analytica-scandal" style="font-family: inherit;">sold our data</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> to Cambridge Analytica to influence voters</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Decentralized control — No central authority (person, server or company) dictates the rules. It removes the power vested in large corporations and authoritarian governments to regulate social media.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The combined market cap of five big tech companies — Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, Alphabet, and Facebook is </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-big-tech-got-even-bigger-11612587632" style="font-family: inherit;">$8 Trillion </a><span style="font-family: inherit;">— almost </span><a href="https://www.investopedia.com/insights/worlds-top-economies/" style="font-family: inherit;">equivalent to the GDP</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> of four big countries such as France, Italy, Brazil, and Canada. It’s insane.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When most nations saw a steep decline in their economies, record-high unemployment, and looming health crises in 2020, these tech companies added </span><a href="https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-big-tech-got-even-bigger-11612587632" style="font-family: inherit;">$1 trillion</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> to their revenues.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><b style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Why decentralised social media?</b></div></b><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It stops anyone from buying the Fediverse out. There is no single network, so there’s no single thing anyone could purchase. If the people running a Fedi server do something bad, users can move their accounts to a different Fedi server without losing their followers.</span></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This discourages server owners from doing anything bad in the first place and gives users lots of options if the worst happens. It lets anyone start their own server, even non-technical people. The simplicity of a small server means it only costs about $6 per month from a managed hosting company (<a href="https://growyourown.services/what-are-managed-hosting-providers/">which does all the technical stuff for you </a>). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It means each server can make its own rules, so if there are disagreements, people can move to a different server with different rules, or even start their own server with rules they write themselves.If one server goes down, other servers keep working. Problems on one server don’t bring down the whole network.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There is a decentralised alternative for each of the big tech platforms available today.</span></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Facebook — </span><a href="https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/subscriptions" style="font-family: inherit;">Minds</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://diasporafoundation.org/" style="font-family: inherit;">Diaspora</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://mewe.com/" style="font-family: inherit;">MeWe</a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">YouTube — Minds, </span><a href="https://lbry.org/" style="font-family: inherit;">LBRY</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://d.tube/" style="font-family: inherit;">D.Tube</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span><a href="https://joinpeertube.org/" style="font-family: inherit;">PeerTube</a></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Reddit — </span><a href="https://getaether.net/" style="font-family: inherit;">Aether</a></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Twitter —</span><a href="https://joinmastodon.org/" style="font-family: inherit;"> Mastodon</a></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Instagram — </span><a href="https://karmaapp.io/" style="font-family: inherit;">Karma</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> (Mobile-only app)</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">WhatsApp — </span><a href="https://www.signal.org/" style="font-family: inherit;">Signal</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><b style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">What is the Fediverse?</b></div></b><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Fediverse (or “Fedi”) is a collection of thousands of independent social media servers that talk to each other seamlessly. This means that the millions of users on these servers can interact with each other as if they were on a single social network.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCgXKM19lcexhMJc-6V49afOab3XI3N_RYx3UjWFL_x4TibVpi5va7224F0eDuVFLSmoW4mh-uJP_YdJ9lh-frn7H3fGByzvVgURwUcfVqatVfwWQFRh7ROGCy5KaMXDL9o7is2XXXk_2qKkcOzNojcO0a8mfTlZbz7bjt0OZqD_CPbUgSpiHvgg/s843/how%20does%20it%20work%20-%20Fediverse.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="563" data-original-width="843" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCgXKM19lcexhMJc-6V49afOab3XI3N_RYx3UjWFL_x4TibVpi5va7224F0eDuVFLSmoW4mh-uJP_YdJ9lh-frn7H3fGByzvVgURwUcfVqatVfwWQFRh7ROGCy5KaMXDL9o7is2XXXk_2qKkcOzNojcO0a8mfTlZbz7bjt0OZqD_CPbUgSpiHvgg/w400-h268/how%20does%20it%20work%20-%20Fediverse.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The most popular type of Fedi server is called Mastodon (or “Masto”) and works a bit like a calmer, more friendly version of Twitter. </span><a href="https://tilvids.com/w/hRzMpJwSkqEK3ZTNPbSuqu" style="font-family: inherit;">Click here for a cute animated video about Mastodon</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> that explains the basic principles of a federated social network. You might also want to watch this </span><a href="https://framatube.org/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVeYKn8ZhiD" style="font-family: inherit;">short video about the Fediverse</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> that emphasises the importance of common technical standards.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are many kinds of Fediverse servers, often with a specific purpose such as photo sharing, video sharing, live streaming, book clubs etc.</span></div></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">Who owns the Fediverse? Is the Fediverse owned by a corporation or venture capital firm? Can it be bought out by Google/Facebook/Elon Musk?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">To the last two questions: no and no.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">No one can buy the Fediverse or Mastodon because there is no single thing that could be bought. The Fedi is made up of thousands of independently owned and run servers, which makes it extremely difficult or impossible for anyone to buy the network.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDfBJSwtI-fTqMoROhv5GxGJxVpZqaU0QJngD0MbFijdvAqkiLL_L9wskbAFX0YfNQOSrmZWddQHtBTTxz2mEiK4fJ4xJbPBT8v6H4XpZtSQNsY8Snw3RNxSsjJNZgOFQoZk-i-bCYnp8swXH89iheyyeYENp-iA-XobozRkqLsv9MTL-eXTEH2A/s1200/Decebtralised.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="899" data-original-width="1200" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDfBJSwtI-fTqMoROhv5GxGJxVpZqaU0QJngD0MbFijdvAqkiLL_L9wskbAFX0YfNQOSrmZWddQHtBTTxz2mEiK4fJ4xJbPBT8v6H4XpZtSQNsY8Snw3RNxSsjJNZgOFQoZk-i-bCYnp8swXH89iheyyeYENp-iA-XobozRkqLsv9MTL-eXTEH2A/w400-h300/Decebtralised.png" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Most Fedi servers belong to unpaid volunteers, or non-profit community groups and co-ops. The running costs are covered by the server owners themselves and donations from their users. There are no investors, no venture capital firms, no ads, no trackers.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Companies can start their own Fedi server if they want to, anyone can, but all they would control is their own server. They would have no control over the thousands of other servers out there.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Fediverse is built on free and open-source software, made by many independent groups, and the software copyrights are licensed in such a way that no company or organisation could ever take control of them.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Who gets to start their own server?</b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Anyone. You don’t need tech skills, and you don’t need much money either.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If you use a managed hosting service, the price starts from around 6 euros or 6 dollars a month and the service will handle all the technical stuff.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Once your server is set up, you can follow people on other servers and they can follow you. You don’t have to do this though, it’s much easier to just join someone else’s server, but it’s there as an option. Many people enjoy growing their own servers.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can find out more info on running your own Fediverse server over on my other site </span><a href="https://growyourown.services/" style="font-family: inherit;">GrowYourOwn.Services</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and there’s a long-form </span><a href="https://growyourown.services/making-your-own-mastodon-server-in-10-steps/" style="font-family: inherit;">Mastodon server tutorial</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> there too.</span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><b>Recommended reading:</b></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/the-fediverse-decentralized-social-media-for-human-beings/">https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/the-fediverse-decentralized-social-media-for-human-beings/</a></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: "Droid Sans"; font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: start; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06666; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><b style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Mili Ponce</span></span></b></span></span></span></span></i></span></div><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: "Droid Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Former Computer Engineer, Tech, EdTech and eCommerce Entrepreneur, Keynote Speaker on Digital Marketing and Entrepreneurship, Social Media Strategist, eCommerce Business Mentor, Trainer, Writer, Blogger, Mother, Daughter, Dreamer.</span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5e5e5e; font-family: "Droid Sans"; font-size: 15px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; 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font-size: medium; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"> @MiliPonce</span></span></p></div></span></span></div>Mili Poncehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10946153311679415691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812126921403364241.post-23603750489572844992022-10-03T00:00:00.005+00:002023-03-10T17:37:15.195+00:00‘Women’s Football’ must become ‘Football’: What can Social Media do? <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijcy1rc9j4yaveCTHka6whQpjUfnDzjCliVf_Vb0mjJoOGOPngCvIe5Y4XbjBpyOcFa5HuOfNjn579LLdvKsRvr5vZ4C6XM5A2hyje2cFAmcgSSj1HLAjMJxSm0j0d-FA0DrI7Nrztpjd05PxnCwNrBpUkfduHZrqH2lZ-TudrzhKbJ8kMDVvddrFNXw/s328/football%20cover%20pic%20.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijcy1rc9j4yaveCTHka6whQpjUfnDzjCliVf_Vb0mjJoOGOPngCvIe5Y4XbjBpyOcFa5HuOfNjn579LLdvKsRvr5vZ4C6XM5A2hyje2cFAmcgSSj1HLAjMJxSm0j0d-FA0DrI7Nrztpjd05PxnCwNrBpUkfduHZrqH2lZ-TudrzhKbJ8kMDVvddrFNXw/w400-h298/football%20cover%20pic%20.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/14801795.campaign-to-get-more-young-girls-playing-football/" style="color: #954f72; text-align: start;">theargus.co.uk</a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">“Molly, what do you want to be when you grow up?”</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>Two-year-old Molly smiles into the camera and screams, “a footballer!” to the Tik Tok users whose </span><a href="https://blog.hootsuite.com/tiktok-algorithm/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx8qwwojb-QIVwY9oCR2P5wQdEAAYASAAEgLaJPD_BwE" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">algorithms</span></b></a><span> have not forgotten the Lionesses’ European Championship win. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">When ballet lessons on a Monday night became too boring for me to attend (as well as my own mother who would regularly nod off during lessons), I opted to copy my friends, whose parents had sent them to hip hop dance lessons instead. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I am certainly not suggesting that, had my parents instead decided to send me to the local football club, I would be currently playing in Wales’s national female football squad. But with all professions and occupations alike, somebody must do it: why couldn’t it have been me? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The most likely answer: I have two left feet and a particular tendency to trip over. However, there are many girls out there who potentially could have been international football stars by now, but they were never given the chance. Even if my parents did want me to have football lessons, it’s unlikely that there was even a mixed team when I was six years old, let alone a girls’ team. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiimMA6IjmWUjKfVs-6rOf75RXlDpwabz1fUKg3QQZOyntlV01lFRMUDCr-046LQV9-3GDlRaW-5hNRQCjByLJ6x8r7qDTxek8Ard3dYB6sgsRNdjH5XKBcwm10N3hRMRpyI5F8VkBn7e1IlNsPzVnBGpTvymPaXu8yCvvoomzQKeYushnWHDprMnZrRA/s500/a%20football%20tweet%20.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="268" data-original-width="500" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiimMA6IjmWUjKfVs-6rOf75RXlDpwabz1fUKg3QQZOyntlV01lFRMUDCr-046LQV9-3GDlRaW-5hNRQCjByLJ6x8r7qDTxek8Ard3dYB6sgsRNdjH5XKBcwm10N3hRMRpyI5F8VkBn7e1IlNsPzVnBGpTvymPaXu8yCvvoomzQKeYushnWHDprMnZrRA/w400-h215/a%20football%20tweet%20.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/women-are-reflecting-on-the-access-to-football-they-had-growing-up_uk_62e77cf1e4b00fd8d840b644" style="color: #954f72; text-align: start;">huffingtonpost.co.uk</a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">While </span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://inews.co.uk/news/stark-figures-girls-access-football-rugby-cricket-1779320"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">54% of girls aged 7 to 10</span></b></a><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span></b>in the UK played football in primary school, this drops to just 33% once they attend secondary school. Outside of school, football is practically inaccessible for girls. The analysis of <a href="https://inews.co.uk/news/england-grassroots-football-blackspots-no-teams-girls-join-1773974"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: inherit;"><b>8,000 grassroots football teams across England</b></span></a> has shown that within many areas in the UK, female-only teams are close to non-existent. Speaking to my own female friends, a Friday night dance show and a termly swimming gala was a likely occurrence: but football was just for boys. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Critics of women’s football enjoy highlighting how it supposedly pales in comparison to men’s football, yet they fail to acknowledge the significantly lower number of female football players on a global scale. However, with women’s football becoming <a href="https://wgp.global/why-womens-football-is-the-fastest-growing-sport-in-the-world/"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>the fastest growing sport</b></span></a>, we could be witnessing a monumental shift in the history of the game. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It has been six weeks since the final of the UEFA Women’s Euro 2022 Final, yet the feelings of triumph and pride have been etched on to the virtual walls of social media platforms. With Tik Tok acting as a <a href="https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-gb/celebrating-the-biggest-ever-uefa-womens-euros-on-tiktok"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">global sponsor</span></b></a> of the Women’s Euros, a record number of fans were engaged with the tournament via social media. During the group stage, <a href="https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/news/0277-15b76971bb48-092500679b6d-1000--uefa-women-s-euro-2022-becomes-most-watched-women-s-euro-in-his/"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>152.4 million</b></span></a> interactions were generated across the different platforms. Additionally, the top 10 social posts from the tournament accumulated over <a href="https://www.n3xtsports.com/insights-uefa-euro-2022-social-media-tiktok-facebook-data/"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">308 million</span></b></a> impressions: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW40457465 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><p aria-level="3" class="Paragraph SCXW40457465 BCX9" paraeid="{d7fcb135-8636-4354-af3b-6bdf1185d87f}{110}" paraid="212579038" role="heading" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; 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background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW40457465 BCX9" data-contrast="none" face="Roboto, Roboto_EmbeddedFont, Roboto_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #181818; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 15.1083px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB">TOTAL</span><span class="EOP SCXW40457465 BCX9" data-ccp-props="{}" face="Roboto, Roboto_EmbeddedFont, Roboto_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #181818; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15.1083px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW40457465 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW40457465 BCX9" paraeid="{d7fcb135-8636-4354-af3b-6bdf1185d87f}{140}" paraid="293136346" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW40457465 BCX9" data-contrast="none" face="Roboto, Roboto_EmbeddedFont, Roboto_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #181818; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 15.1083px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW40457465 BCX9" data-ccp-charstyle="apple-converted-space" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW40457465 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">ENGAGEMENTS (in millions)</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW40457465 BCX9" data-ccp-props="{}" face="Roboto, Roboto_EmbeddedFont, Roboto_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #181818; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15.1083px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW40457465 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW40457465 BCX9" paraeid="{d7fcb135-8636-4354-af3b-6bdf1185d87f}{148}" paraid="1717781958" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW40457465 BCX9" data-contrast="none" face="Roboto, Roboto_EmbeddedFont, Roboto_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #181818; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15.1083px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Euro 2022</span><span class="EOP SCXW40457465 BCX9" data-ccp-props="{}" face="Roboto, Roboto_EmbeddedFont, Roboto_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #181818; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15.1083px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW40457465 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW40457465 BCX9" paraeid="{d7fcb135-8636-4354-af3b-6bdf1185d87f}{154}" paraid="158901219" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #00527a; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW40457465 BCX9" data-contrast="none" face="Roboto, Roboto_EmbeddedFont, Roboto_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: white; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB">308.42</span><span class="EOP SCXW40457465 BCX9" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":2,"335559740":405}" face="Roboto, Roboto_EmbeddedFont, Roboto_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: white; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW40457465 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW40457465 BCX9" paraeid="{d7fcb135-8636-4354-af3b-6bdf1185d87f}{160}" paraid="1949556378" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #18a1cd; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW40457465 BCX9" data-contrast="none" face="Roboto, Roboto_EmbeddedFont, Roboto_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #181818; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB">1.08</span><span class="EOP SCXW40457465 BCX9" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":2,"335559740":405}" face="Roboto, Roboto_EmbeddedFont, Roboto_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #181818; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW40457465 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW40457465 BCX9" paraeid="{d7fcb135-8636-4354-af3b-6bdf1185d87f}{166}" paraid="82821483" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW40457465 BCX9" data-contrast="none" face="Roboto, Roboto_EmbeddedFont, Roboto_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-user-drag: none; color: #181818; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 15.1083px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB">WWC 2019</span><span class="EOP SCXW40457465 BCX9" data-ccp-props="{}" face="Roboto, Roboto_EmbeddedFont, Roboto_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #181818; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15.1083px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW40457465 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW40457465 BCX9" paraeid="{d7fcb135-8636-4354-af3b-6bdf1185d87f}{172}" paraid="2094786798" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #00527a; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW40457465 BCX9" data-contrast="none" face="Roboto, Roboto_EmbeddedFont, Roboto_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: white; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB">76.12</span><span class="EOP SCXW40457465 BCX9" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":2,"335559740":405}" face="Roboto, Roboto_EmbeddedFont, Roboto_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: white; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW40457465 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW40457465 BCX9" paraeid="{d7fcb135-8636-4354-af3b-6bdf1185d87f}{178}" paraid="461627931" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: #18a1cd; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="TextRun SCXW40457465 BCX9" data-contrast="none" face="Roboto, Roboto_EmbeddedFont, Roboto_MSFontService, sans-serif" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #181818; font-size: 9pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 14px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB">1.61</span><span class="EOP SCXW40457465 BCX9" data-ccp-props="{"201341983":2,"335559740":405}" face="Roboto, Roboto_EmbeddedFont, Roboto_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #181818; 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font-size: 9pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 15.1083px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB">*Note: Data correct as of 1st August 2022</span><span class="EOP SCXW40457465 BCX9" data-ccp-props="{}" face="Roboto, Roboto_EmbeddedFont, Roboto_MSFontService, sans-serif" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: #656565; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 15.1083px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW40457465 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-family: "Segoe UI", "Segoe UI Web", Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-align: start; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW40457465 BCX9" paraeid="{d7fcb135-8636-4354-af3b-6bdf1185d87f}{190}" paraid="111668290" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; 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font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Unfortunately, women playing football still seems to disturb a significant number of people. During the tournament’s opening match between England and Austria, over 40 abusive posts were identified. Throughout the tournament, around </span><a href="https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/07/08/womens-euro-uefa-launches-platform-to-monitor-abusive-online-comments" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">46%</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> of abusive posts were related to sexism. Despite this, for every sexist comment on social media, there were </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/aug/24/hope-not-hate-england-women-football-team-enjoy-positive-social-media-posts" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">125</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> positive comments. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I spoke to Mr Edward Harvey, my local football team’s chairperson, who explained how the Football Association of Wales has been campaigning for an increase in grassroots girls’ football teams. Social media coverage of the women’s Euros this year has certainly provoked more parents and young girls to join the stream of people campaigning to break the gender barrier within football. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">After advertising for a girls’ local football Funday on Facebook, an overwhelming number of enthusiastic responses meant that the club arranged for three sessions to take place throughout the day. Not only is social media a crucial mechanism for enabling female inspiration, but an organisational blessing for local football teams. Finally, we may witness the formation of the first girls’ football team in town. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Spreading football fever was not limited to local organisations, but also the long list of global sponsors supporting the tournament. <a href="https://stories.photoshelter.com/euro-2022-brands-social-media-content-fuels-global-interest-in-uk-womens-sport/"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Nike, Visa and Volkswagen</b></span></a> are just a few names among many on the sponsor list, as we saw social media audiences engaged months before the tournament’s opening match. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Car manufacturer Volkswagen saw an opportunity to highlight how ‘women’s football’ and ‘football’ are categorised as entirely separate. By using the additional qualifier ‘women’s’, Volkswagen has expressed how football, as played by women, has not been treated as <b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="https://stories.photoshelter.com/euro-2022-brands-social-media-content-fuels-global-interest-in-uk-womens-sport/"><span style="color: #674ea7;">‘real’</span></a> </span></b>football. Through social media campaigns like this one, we are finally witnessing an increase in the conversation surrounding the lack of respect for women in football: and, by virtue, all women. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJEIgiRLhy0bXIseiQtP04qg0l9JchUvjt2k5tx5rbyYVQU5o3UdXchJA8amYWq2Nb-ZNZE94-7hM1lIEDgxS8p5A-Rj8rjtRD_WkC2rjAhFHHTc521hxpvmthFTacRHRpA7B298qfXZVRFX2i8auv8aUzT-L5ItPHKMa6o3NzmkmlXiCpCm2mOA5OLw/s928/a%20volkswagen%20.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="928" data-original-width="776" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJEIgiRLhy0bXIseiQtP04qg0l9JchUvjt2k5tx5rbyYVQU5o3UdXchJA8amYWq2Nb-ZNZE94-7hM1lIEDgxS8p5A-Rj8rjtRD_WkC2rjAhFHHTc521hxpvmthFTacRHRpA7B298qfXZVRFX2i8auv8aUzT-L5ItPHKMa6o3NzmkmlXiCpCm2mOA5OLw/w335-h400/a%20volkswagen%20.png" width="335" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="https://stories.photoshelter.com/euro-2022-brands-social-media-content-fuels-global-interest-in-uk-womens-sport/" style="color: #954f72; text-align: start;">stories.photoshelter.com</a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As well as this campaign post, Volkswagen has used a multitude of digital channels to spark and maintain individuals’ interest in the tournament, as well as the sexist double standards that still permeate the industry. Notably, a </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtrmJJ3gc4c" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>YouTube video</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b> </b></span>created by Volkswagen explains the prevalence of gender norms within the world of football. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">With big brand names like Volkswagen and LinkedIn using their platforms to support the women’s EURO 2022 tournament, just their presence alone is enough to generate interest. LinkedIn’s vice president Ngaire Moyes has commented on the platform’s desire to promote gender inclusivity in football, generating further conversation surrounding the plight of women in football, </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">“At LinkedIn we’re championing a gender-equal world that’s diverse and inclusive, and it’s a privilege to support UEFA Women’s EURO 2022 which actively shares and celebrates these values. The tournament is set to be a landmark event that will provide professional female footballers with a platform to showcase their remarkable talent and achievements.” </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">However, while big brands seem to be doing their bit, some individuals have highlighted the level of hypocrisy surrounding their social media solidarity for women in football. While LinkedIn, Volkswagen and Tik Tok are eager to champion the women’s Euros, some individuals have expressed how each company must do more to champion the plight of their own female workers as highlighted by the<span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="https://www.talentedladiesclub.com/articles/are-sponsors-of-the-uefa-womens-euro-2022-really-champions-of-women/"><span style="color: #674ea7;">gender pay gap</span></a> </span></b>within their own ranks. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Social media has an immensely important role to play in raising the profile of women’s football, as well as defeating sexist stereotypes that remain embedded within football culture. While Global sponsors are crucial for generating interest, social media at an individual level has enabled users to share their uplifting at-home reactions to the nation’s favourite football stars taking the stage. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">As we witness a major boost to girls’ grassroots football teams, particularly in the UK, Manchester United’s Aoife Mannion has described the 2022 Euros as a ‘catalyst’, bringing women’s football to the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/aug/17/how-euro-2022-started-girls-football-revolution-manchester-united"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">‘forefront of people’s minds’ </span></b></a>. With the FA’s aim to get 120,000 women playing football by 2024, social media can facilitate the decisive interactions needed to change the face of football for good. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Lucy Thomas </span></i></p><div style="text-align: justify;">Lucy is an undergraduate BSc Politics and International Relations student at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests include social stratification and international political theory.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Linkedin: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-thomas-b598ab200/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">/<span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>in/lucy-thomas</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sources:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blog.hootsuite.com/tiktok-algorithm/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx8qwwojb-QIVwY9oCR2P5wQdEAAYASAAEgLaJPD_BwE"><span style="color: black; font-size: x-small;">https://blog.hootsuite.com/tiktok-algorithm/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIx8qwwojb-QIVwY9oCR2P5wQdEAAYASAAEgLaJPD_BwE</span></a></div><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/14801795.campaign-to-get-more-young-girls-playing-football/ <br />https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/women-are-reflecting-on-the-access-to-football-they-had-growing-up_uk_62e77cf1e4b00fd8d840b644 <br />https://inews.co.uk/news/stark-figures-girls-access-football-rugby-cricket-1779320<br />https://inews.co.uk/news/england-grassroots-football-blackspots-no-teams-girls-join-1773974<br />https://wgp.global/why-womens-football-is-the-fastest-growing-sport-in-the-world/<br />https://newsroom.tiktok.com/en-gb/celebrating-the-biggest-ever-uefa-womens-euros-on-tiktok<br />https://www.uefa.com/insideuefa/news/0277-15b76971bb48-092500679b6d-1000--uefa-women-s-euro-2022-becomes-most-watched-women-s-euro-in-his/<br />https://www.n3xtsports.com/insights-uefa-euro-2022-social-media-tiktok-facebook-data/<br />https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2022/07/08/womens-euro-uefa-launches-platform-to-monitor-abusive-online-comments</span><div><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.theguardian.com/media/2022/aug/24/hope-not-hate-england-women-football-team-enjoy-positive-social-media-posts<br />https://stories.photoshelter.com/euro-2022-brands-social-media-content-fuels-global-interest-in-uk-womens-sport/<br />https://stories.photoshelter.com/euro-2022-brands-social-media-content-fuels-global-interest-in-uk-womens-sport/<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtrmJJ3gc4c<br />https://www.talentedladiesclub.com/articles/are-sponsors-of-the-uefa-womens-euro-2022-really-champions-of-women/ <br />https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/aug/17/how-euro-2022-started-girls-football-revolution-manchester-united</span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div>Lucy Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02845891489099059127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812126921403364241.post-3254337340935141192022-09-23T19:06:00.006+00:002023-01-03T17:04:46.635+00:00If Life's Worth Living, It's Worth Recording! - When Family Drama Becomes Public Property <div style="text-align: center;"><i><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAOG3L1GyrIdQU-GmYgSOunAj6zovmGhP9yCk-5OBSOK2sTKnXalCzLWUBJQbCjJ5iQFMP_2uJRcBiz8Elohi3i0i7H7dlBgFT4LfbPwcMpoV_X5LuxBjq8o0aKl0mWEL65np72omwE8jaRX0PdpNo1ujtu43jvz49FkIV9qL9v8SH-w8SdJI7ufsp/s700/shaytards.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="700" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAOG3L1GyrIdQU-GmYgSOunAj6zovmGhP9yCk-5OBSOK2sTKnXalCzLWUBJQbCjJ5iQFMP_2uJRcBiz8Elohi3i0i7H7dlBgFT4LfbPwcMpoV_X5LuxBjq8o0aKl0mWEL65np72omwE8jaRX0PdpNo1ujtu43jvz49FkIV9qL9v8SH-w8SdJI7ufsp/s320/shaytards.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image Credit: The ShayTards</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Ok, this is my first weight loss vlog. I will try and do one every day. Also, I will only accept video responses that are about your weight loss.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">These are the words that started off Shay Carl Butler’s YouTube journey. Hailing from Utah in the United States, Butler, then 29-years-old, decided to document his weight loss journey through YouTube, using the platform as motivation for his goal. But that’s not how it ended, and what ensued kickstarted a genre that makes even the strongest social media commentator shiver in fear:<b> family vlogging channels.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">—</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In 2016, the self-proclaimed <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/shaytards"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>ShayTards</b></span></a> were <a href="https://www.fox13now.com/2016/03/22/meet-the-first-family-of-youtube-the-shaytards"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>at the top of their game</b></span></a>. Interviews with Fox News, high-profile engagement with Disney, and millions of dollars led them to YouTube superstardom, and they were widely proclaimed as the platform’s ‘First Family’, with millions of subscribers tuning in every single day to watch their daily vlogs throughout the year. Shay and his wife, Colette (known as MommyTard), along with their five children, Gavin (SonTard), Avia (PrincessTard), Emmi (BabyTard), Brock (RockTard), and Daxton (BroTard), were riding high and raking in the cash. The future looked bright for the internet’s most charming family. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>And then it all came crashing down.</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">After Shay was proven to have been <a href="https://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/tech/614896/adult-performer-aria-ninas-instagram-hacked-and-deleted-after-she-exposed-married-youtube-star-shay-carl-butler-sexting-scandal/"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>cheating on his wife of fourteen years with cam girl Aria Nina</b></span></a>, who exposed him via social media, the ShayTards vlogging channel went dark for a while. A few scattered come-backs, and a few lack-lustre attempts at vlogs came through, but it wasn’t much, and it was never for long. <a href="https://youtu.be/x5Ps13AeXxQ"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Colette’s solo channel</b></span></a> revealed someone struggling to get through the hurt that Shay had caused - someone trying to reconcile her strong Mormon beliefs to her anger - and Shay’s few uploads (now all deleted) showed he was suffering just as deeply. They’ve come back now - it seems, for a more serious (and healed) go of it - but the magic that had kept the vlogging channel going for years has died off with that deeply personal scandal, and it raises a question.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj5dA9ghQQundi6rucibMLOS6MqbKOX5An1I9Ea3Wc8M5o8aYIjnhR72gY6EeM-mNCV80_5vQ2ELvsPmfpanQxzhwsmnea_WYxIjnK7JjbeqnreK4k9EazojdHm6U-1R-dXf23kmm10aCx2koChq64KDWhR3R6McJX4aoOHezwiXzEXb0X6aKQk5VU/s512/shay%20a%20coll.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="512" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj5dA9ghQQundi6rucibMLOS6MqbKOX5An1I9Ea3Wc8M5o8aYIjnhR72gY6EeM-mNCV80_5vQ2ELvsPmfpanQxzhwsmnea_WYxIjnK7JjbeqnreK4k9EazojdHm6U-1R-dXf23kmm10aCx2koChq64KDWhR3R6McJX4aoOHezwiXzEXb0X6aKQk5VU/s320/shay%20a%20coll.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image Credit: The ShayTards</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Should we vlog our families?</b> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This question has been in the news recently aplenty, mostly attached to the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/sacconejolys"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Saccone Jolys</b></span></a>, a UK-based vlogging family who have attracted a lot of criticism with <a href="https://uk.news.yahoo.com/youtube-family-saccones-abusive-cold-shower-punishment-for-toddler-060225812.html?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAAM5p1_9q42SBehgte4somUDfJNUS2jFkfdKo4U2ftNwNIA7v2FqCZj8tTIjprLyxamE9d1oltZ1gAlqfoNDVpgsKQFv2iETAGjgP6m6izHOJ5zJ_7HQiWULhIuKXPPz03zj9Gyuh1eMkIU8zok2bOpjCIC5LaolEQmUe9JvrfleK"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>accusations of child abuse</b></span></a> and a <a href="https://www.sky.com/watch/title/series/d5c4f595-f281-4637-b3f8-185b536f38db/stacey-dooley-sleeps-over-d5c4f595-f281-4637-b3f8-185b536f38db/episodes/season-1/episode-2"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>controversial documentary</b></span></a> with journalist Stacey Dooley. Scandal has abounded, from <a href="https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/04/daddyofive-youtube-abuse-controversy-explained.html"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>DaddyOfFive (Michael Christopher Martin) and his abuse of his children</b></span></a>, to <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-52839792"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Myka and James Stauffer returning their adopted child</b></span></a> (and facing all the backlash on social media). But people seem to ignore the ShayTards nowadays - perhaps because the kids are older, or because of the back-step the family have taken. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Let’s take a look at their YouTube story as a whole before we answer that question.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">—</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The ShayTards started as a weight loss accountability channel for Shay, as mentioned before. It then quickly blossomed into a narrative of the family’s life together, with daily vlogs, insight into mundane episodes like Colette’s cooking and the kids’ first day of school, and taking the trash out. At this point in the YouTube journey, the Butlers were a family of five, and it’s worth getting to know them from the beginning. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">After marrying his wife Colette in 2003, Shay Butler settled in Idaho with her, and, at the time of the beginning of their YouTube channel, they had three children: Gavin, Avia, and Emmi. It wasn’t long before a fourth child was born, called Brock, <a href="https://youtu.be/kroua3nzmIU"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>whose birth in 2010 was the first to be documented on YouTube</b></span></a>, as well as much of his childhood. As a result, he was called the internet’s ‘first Truman baby’, after the cult classic The Truman Show. Then, in 2013, a fifth child was born, who was <b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="https://youtu.be/AEyfCz2CTH8">also recorded from birth - Daxton Butler</a>.</span></b> The internet were truly integrated with the family - we’d seen two of these kids be born - and we were another part of the family of seven, navigating the ups-and-downs of the good old American Dream. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1NsEoMXb51n1WbACbGPEuueptaqF7r9wA-B8knnjIiw0rGvPb5nM3-f2V7VY_MRJO4H1gCHlUm5gkTNSkX_S8j2l7oyQdfpsouG6gYUAHKrQuYTC5f6TmVzYcO6vos77J6o93NZkT5PXth2T9Wu8bdvQm2_3yyHUIO2bZI0Jzrff9u5U_Tl7WYuEB/s512/birth.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="512" height="178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1NsEoMXb51n1WbACbGPEuueptaqF7r9wA-B8knnjIiw0rGvPb5nM3-f2V7VY_MRJO4H1gCHlUm5gkTNSkX_S8j2l7oyQdfpsouG6gYUAHKrQuYTC5f6TmVzYcO6vos77J6o93NZkT5PXth2T9Wu8bdvQm2_3yyHUIO2bZI0Jzrff9u5U_Tl7WYuEB/s320/birth.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image Credit: The ShayTards</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">We weren’t just part of their family, though. In fact, we were also integrated within an extended family, who took part in the ShayTards’ family Christmasses, Thanksgivings, and birthdays, with matching pyjamas and Nativity performances all around. Shay’s siblings are all YouTubers, too - family vloggers, who share their personal lives with the internet. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">And it’s not just their personal lives: it’s also their faith. Shay, Colette, and their kids (and extended family) quietly follow their Mormon faith, with the teachings of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints, and while they don’t speak about their beliefs all too explicitly, we’re quite aware of it. <a href="http://newmediarockstars.com/2012/05/shay-carl/"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Shay’s said himself:</b></span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I leave our faith out of it a lot just because sometimes I just don’t want to deal with it in the comments. The official name of our church is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. The nickname of our church is Mormons. We’re Mormons. I kind of don’t talk about it a lot. I could talk about it a lot more. Honestly, a lot of the answers to the questions that people ask me, “Why are you so happy,” and stuff, is because of our faith and what we believe. It’s not crazy. I know there are a lot of stereotypes of Mormons and stuff like that. We believe that our family is sealed forever. That’s kind of the basis of our belief. Me and my wife believe that we are married not only until death do us part but we believe because of our faith that we are sealed for time and eternity. We believe that we live after this life, and we believe that we will remain in this relationship after we die and that our children are sealed with us and that we’re an eternal family and that we’ll always be together. </span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">We’re religious and we’re Mormons, and I don’t talk about it a lot because of the comments and people are freaking out [and] these giant fights in the comments break out. Sometimes it’s not worth it. I did a funny video the other day where I was at church, and I was filming myself in front of the church with the sign of the church behind me saying, “You guys always ask me which church we go to, and I just really don’t want to talk about it. I want to keep that private,” but the sign is really big and then of course in the comments they’re like, “The sign was behind you!” and people are fighting and people take it too serious sometimes. Anyway, yeahh, we’re Mormons. I don’t hide it, but I don’t come out and shove it down people’s throat.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">And <b>it was this intense awareness of the happy, loving life that the ShayTards led, under Mormon principles, coupled with our absolute integration with their lives, that cause so much shock when we found out that Shay had cheated on Colette in 2017</b>. The channel stopped, content stopped, and people were genuinely furious.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaX_2p6-eUyp9hXbcPycmgWIG4Ow_ObA7qWeBvGKPXkaZ6UhS0N9od1gVFND7o1rp2HsHzdp0w-NcEnCa8qL_AEjWNQK_bs9Gc7bgVteK7fq2UZgfOVIOyCoVfKIOLH_YL6VlniCR05fxJm3DLipNP-f5ILczvzEYLMUpIL-mtmAp8T-oufQJe01n4/s512/weak%20men.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="220" data-original-width="512" height="138" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiaX_2p6-eUyp9hXbcPycmgWIG4Ow_ObA7qWeBvGKPXkaZ6UhS0N9od1gVFND7o1rp2HsHzdp0w-NcEnCa8qL_AEjWNQK_bs9Gc7bgVteK7fq2UZgfOVIOyCoVfKIOLH_YL6VlniCR05fxJm3DLipNP-f5ILczvzEYLMUpIL-mtmAp8T-oufQJe01n4/s320/weak%20men.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Screenshot from <a href="https://twitter.com/rainbowmiller_/status/830992748668870656"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">@rainbowmiller</span></b></a> (Twitter)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">And, after they were furious, they were worried - and especially worried for Colette and the kids.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7tMVvGDt68ezd4obkb_RBcMYiA-2NngNXiKuiQ0-_emfnHilXfLTrgl7nJU6mjim55beYVocosly7oAgVmunWQE57xEZvwqcDzf2Gp_yKwDvWytWUOaUIMGKxhjL2bVKbiJj-H3mlIUmC9a_uX8mnM1OhFK6u6Va1kw_eLmiQglwQXLCRQHBBKeM7/s512/colette's%20wellbeing.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="225" data-original-width="512" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7tMVvGDt68ezd4obkb_RBcMYiA-2NngNXiKuiQ0-_emfnHilXfLTrgl7nJU6mjim55beYVocosly7oAgVmunWQE57xEZvwqcDzf2Gp_yKwDvWytWUOaUIMGKxhjL2bVKbiJj-H3mlIUmC9a_uX8mnM1OhFK6u6Va1kw_eLmiQglwQXLCRQHBBKeM7/s320/colette's%20wellbeing.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Screenshot from <a href="https://twitter.com/fabuloushannahh/status/864144454202122241"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">@fabuloushannahh</span></b></a> (Twitter)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">People were intensely involved in the fallout, even as the ShayTards themselves withdrew, and, during the hiatus that followed, it was like many of their viewers had lost a limb. Even the prospect of not having one of their yearly Christmas vlogs was something to be mourned:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_3-5mXuTuidHhd0BYmceoFis7oy_DSOeVZY3J6KHVDj1aT757o-dbxVgo4D2DveTrFlgLgAvObQxSL-PYjQD5hzLvnzIyB9RVb29XlQ46XDccRF9GA75Uk5p6m1cJmPQtq36fE9Ev63AE3CKkiIYqIdPRz8qWnITejCL4NwFMhAx93nmuxOLncrPo/s512/sobbing%20christmas.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="226" data-original-width="512" height="141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_3-5mXuTuidHhd0BYmceoFis7oy_DSOeVZY3J6KHVDj1aT757o-dbxVgo4D2DveTrFlgLgAvObQxSL-PYjQD5hzLvnzIyB9RVb29XlQ46XDccRF9GA75Uk5p6m1cJmPQtq36fE9Ev63AE3CKkiIYqIdPRz8qWnITejCL4NwFMhAx93nmuxOLncrPo/s320/sobbing%20christmas.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Screenshot from <a href="https://twitter.com/stgcaylen/status/945023123115700224"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">@stgcaylen</span></b></a> (Twitter)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">What should’ve been a private family issue turned into an online spectacle and a buzz that still follows the family now. <a href="https://perezhilton.com/shay-carl-butler-sex-cheating-scandal-aria-nina-shaytards-youtuber-drama/"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Perez Hilton</b></span></a>, <a href="https://affairpost.com/shay-carls-wife-colette-butler-wiki-bio-cheating-children-awards-and-net-worth/"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Affair Post</b></span></a>, and even <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/SHAYTARDS/comments/5to8bd/shaycarl_sexting_a_cam_girl/"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Reddit</b></span></a> got involved in breaking the scandal, and their lives were ripped apart because people felt entitled to be outraged. They felt that, as a result of the false intimacy created by so much daily and personal content, they were allowed to be angry about what happened as if they themselves were part of this family unit. <b>It’s the same phenomenon that allows us to become so attached to reality TV</b> - and the same phenomenon I’ve spoken about previously, with YouTube couples. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Shay Butler shared his life online - and when that life got messy, so did the reaction on social media. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Now, after a few lacklustre comebacks, the ShayTards are creating regular content again. After years of speculation of a divorce, Colette and Shay are back seemingly stronger than ever, and their kids are growing up, with the eldest, Gavin, having just received his mission with the LDS church last month. They’ve gotten past the drama personally, but it still follows them on the internet, and their fans, whether returned or not, remember. <b>The proof of the scandal will always be there to see. God knows how they feel about it off-screen. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">—</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The big question we need to ask, though, is whether this is actually okay. <b>Is it okay to be filming a child from the moment they’re born? Is it okay to film a birth? Is it okay to vlog your life every single day, especially when there are children involved? Is all of this healthy?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Finding an answer to all of those questions is a difficult task, but I think we can set out some facts, for the jury - you guys - to chew on.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Family vlogging channels provide content that millions clearly enjoy, as they watch children grow up. They develop parenting styles, attachments, and gain comfort from family dynamics that they perhaps didn’t even have. Family channels do good in the world. That’s obvious.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">But we don’t know what goes on behind the camera. Do these kids even want to be filmed? And crucially, what happens when public opinion turns on those channels that make their kids their content? What happens when family drama is aired out on the screen for all to see?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I don’t know. Shay Carl maintains that, if life’s worth living, it’s worth recording. <b>It’s up to you to decide whether all of that recording should make it past the director’s cut. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Anna Coopey</span></i></b></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">4th-year undergraduate student in Classics at The University of St Andrews in Scotland. Keen writer and researcher on a number of topics, varying from Modern Greek literature to revolutionary theory. </div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Twitter: <b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="https://twitter.com/anna_coopey" target="_blank">@anna_coopey</a></span></b> </div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Works Cited:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/shaytards-living-food-stamps-youtube-millionaires/story?id=34211164">https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/shaytards-living-food-stamps-youtube-millionaires/story?id=34211164</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://theboar.org/2014/06/shay-carl-shaytards/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">https://theboar.org/2014/06/shay-carl-shaytards/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://metro.co.uk/2018/03/21/shaytards-stop-making-videos-happened-7403719/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">https://metro.co.uk/2018/03/21/shaytards-stop-making-videos-happened-7403719/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://time.com/4783215/growing-up-in-public/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">https://time.com/4783215/growing-up-in-public/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://slate.com/technology/2017/12/bratayley-the-shaytards-and-other-youtube-family-bloggers.html"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">https://slate.com/technology/2017/12/bratayley-the-shaytards-and-other-youtube-family-bloggers.html</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.fox13now.com/2016/03/22/meet-the-first-family-of-youtube-the-shaytards"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">https://www.fox13now.com/2016/03/22/meet-the-first-family-of-youtube-the-shaytards</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://newmediarockstars.com/2014/05/jesus-and-social-media-shaytards-are-proudly-spreading-the-religious-word/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">https://newmediarockstars.com/2014/05/jesus-and-social-media-shaytards-are-proudly-spreading-the-religious-word/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/16/youtube-stars-vlogging-child-safety-sacconejolys-katie-and-baby"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/sep/16/youtube-stars-vlogging-child-safety-sacconejolys-katie-and-baby</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://charlatan.ca/2022/08/04/opinion-youtube-child-stars-deserve-legal-protection-too/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">https://charlatan.ca/2022/08/04/opinion-youtube-child-stars-deserve-legal-protection-too/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2022/01/19/cushman-family-vlogging-danger-kids-online/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">https://dailyutahchronicle.com/2022/01/19/cushman-family-vlogging-danger-kids-online/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://veniceoarsman.com/12112/opinion/family-vlog-channels-are-everything-wrong-with-youtube/"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">https://veniceoarsman.com/12112/opinion/family-vlog-channels-are-everything-wrong-with-youtube/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.indy100.com/viral/youtube-family-channel-reddit-child"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">https://www.indy100.com/viral/youtube-family-channel-reddit-child</span></a></div>Anna Coopeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12617339904914819703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812126921403364241.post-16337386666998783442022-09-21T22:29:00.030+00:002023-01-03T17:04:36.788+00:00The Royal Mourning - Many Mornings of CANCELLED<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCr1JRDDkAT5sZJ4hUKweOqhh6Ux8Rpfg32XTyHQql8EoHJbzAw7YKF1Je3Lo8TZnC6ZSmwIOAn_qIlNUYoh7NlgCyJeI-sfvVrN3elcl1IrSeIzTWPXKWOuidvS9pG3VOArko3d8iPO11knt3igNLojSVGSogzWeoDnQ6wbWr0aTkknpiGjiT5rQ1uA/s6016/pexels-john-nail-9119524.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="Edingburgh Castle" border="0" data-original-height="4016" data-original-width="6016" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCr1JRDDkAT5sZJ4hUKweOqhh6Ux8Rpfg32XTyHQql8EoHJbzAw7YKF1Je3Lo8TZnC6ZSmwIOAn_qIlNUYoh7NlgCyJeI-sfvVrN3elcl1IrSeIzTWPXKWOuidvS9pG3VOArko3d8iPO11knt3igNLojSVGSogzWeoDnQ6wbWr0aTkknpiGjiT5rQ1uA/w400-h223/pexels-john-nail-9119524.jpg" width="400" /></span></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>So, you may have heard that Queen Elizabeth II passed away rather recently. </span><span>It has certainly been something to behold; the whole world is talking about her life and her death.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;">Interpersonally and throughout the media, people have been exploring their feelings and thoughts on the Queen and monarchy, wondering what it means for countries within the Commonwealth as we say goodbye to the longest reigning monarch in the world and get used to singing ‘God Save the King’.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;">Many are speculating how this seismic event will impact the country as we move into this new era, while others are simply wondering how their lives will be impacted in the more immediate future; will they get Monday off work? Be able to go on their holiday? Attend their hospital appointments?<a style="mso-comment-date: 20220917T1206; mso-comment-parent: 1; mso-comment-reference: "T\(_2";"></a><a style="mso-comment-date: 20220917T1206; mso-comment-reference: "T\(_1";"><span style="mso-comment-continuation: 2;"> </span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;"><a style="mso-comment-date: 20220917T1206; mso-comment-reference: "T\(_1";"><span style="mso-comment-continuation: 2;"><br /></span></a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">In response to the announcement of the 10-day period of</span><a href="https://www.royal.uk/mourning-and-condolence-arrangements-royal-residences"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"> <b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Royal Mourning</span></b>,</span></a><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"> came the flood of cancellations, postponements and closures.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;">The list includes sporting events, theatre, festivals; TV shows, concerts, cinemas; schools, food banks, hospital appointments: - flights, strikes, funerals; shops, public transport, and postal services.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;">Monday the 19<sup>th</sup> of September marked the day of Queen’s State Funeral and was regarded as a ‘Bank Holiday’, meaning it was under the judgment of individual companies and businesses to decide whether they observed this, and for what duration, out of the ten days that were dedicated to the mourning period.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">The official National Mourning </span><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-demise-of-her-majesty-queen-elizabeth-ii-national-mourning-guidance/the-demise-of-her-majesty-queen-elizabeth-ii-national-mourning-guidance"><span style="color: #674ea7; line-height: 17.12px;"><b>Guide</b></span></a><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"> available on the Government website includes that ‘<span style="background: white;">there is no obligation on organisations to suspend business during the National Mourning period’, and ‘this is at the discretion of individual businesses’, though ‘some businesses may wish to consider closing or postponing events, especially on the day of the State Funeral’.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="background: white;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;">Many took to social media to convey their opinions on this matter – with public figures such as </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piers_Morgan"><span style="background: white; color: #674ea7; line-height: 17.12px;"><b>Piers Morgan</b></span></a><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_Jones"><span style="background: white; color: #674ea7; line-height: 17.12px;"><b>Owen Jones</b></span></a><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"> tweeting in opposition to the many cancellations.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.centerparcs.co.uk/"><span style="background: white; color: #674ea7; line-height: 17.12px;"><b>Center Parcs UK</b></span></a><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"> tweeted:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;">‘<b>Following the announcement of the date of the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II, we have made the decision to close all our UK villages on Monday 19<sup>th</sup> September as a mark of respect and to allow as many of our</b> </span><b><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;">colleagues as possible to be a part of this historic movement’</span></b><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;">, to which Morgan tweeted:</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="mso-element: comment-list;"><div style="mso-element: comment;"><div class="msocomtxt" id="_com_1" language="JavaScript"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMN9UvC07d7ZZkJHxH4vqLnqnHPcxb3-02AWgv39HDTNA9GHNv_-uxaQHEZSXBBCT0lqt8kqfbwKagWDvrzNezPIoWn8C9ybBNkwDKBn1XYm91EJ6pZ8UN28sAacQgB-qfpSMQEMge1vCQdRXZw0Td0BO0b9mywNtehqcUQyAIfoN6XDUy7eECzOBy/s614/1.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="614" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMN9UvC07d7ZZkJHxH4vqLnqnHPcxb3-02AWgv39HDTNA9GHNv_-uxaQHEZSXBBCT0lqt8kqfbwKagWDvrzNezPIoWn8C9ybBNkwDKBn1XYm91EJ6pZ8UN28sAacQgB-qfpSMQEMge1vCQdRXZw0Td0BO0b9mywNtehqcUQyAIfoN6XDUy7eECzOBy/w377-h229/1.png" width="377" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Which is perhaps a fair point.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Some responded to the news of Center Parc’s temporary closure with humour:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_suwbm1zZ3c5JhsSOvn5kzs1oih3EDmKIfRgL2gYC9i1FXlO5zJSPlCGf6qU6baoRMinwu0F17Xv4-1NXdGFLxjbhi2JuRRQZnDI_BfQOMPM1Zzeh4FSUTNtCIzckmikbSKlMcuwzmA7rWt51GCOvPQ9v9k9KAaAOryw7-SiBQLGrqbFe-CiYhcfS/s611/2.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="285" data-original-width="611" height="187" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_suwbm1zZ3c5JhsSOvn5kzs1oih3EDmKIfRgL2gYC9i1FXlO5zJSPlCGf6qU6baoRMinwu0F17Xv4-1NXdGFLxjbhi2JuRRQZnDI_BfQOMPM1Zzeh4FSUTNtCIzckmikbSKlMcuwzmA7rWt51GCOvPQ9v9k9KAaAOryw7-SiBQLGrqbFe-CiYhcfS/w402-h187/2.png" width="402" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Perhaps it was this that deterred the company and led them to quickly reverse their decision in an email sent directly to customers.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Or maybe it was the onslaught of complaints from people who were upset that they would be without somewhere to sleep for a night. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Other 'U-Turns' also ensued, including Trussell Trust, a trust based in London which supports a nationwide network of food banks. Initially, they announced that they were closing their banks on Monday 19th alongside other foodbanks such as Gateshead Foodbank and County Durham Foodbank, saying they<span style="background-color: white;"> <i>'</i></span><span style="background-color: white;"><i>have decided to allow our staff and workers the opportunity to show their respects</i>. Their London, Wimbledon branch then deleted the announcement, saying they would remain open after </span>they received a lot of <i>'support'.</i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">This period has certainly brought people into questioning what the Royal Mourning should connote and <i>how</i> people should mourn. The Royal State Funeral was televised; the cancellations on Monday were implemented in order to allow the general public to be witnesses to the event.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">But some think even these day-long cancellations were backward, and that they have been ‘forced’ into mourning by having their beloved events, - or more vital appointments - being cancelled. Others welcomed the period, perceiving it as a mark of respect to Her Majesty the Queen and those mourning her passing, and a well-justified pause in our lives in the wake of her passing.<span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;">I asked a few members of the public for their opinions on the closures and how they had impacted them.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">“Closing everything down”</span></i><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">, Eve Mathews, 24, comments, <i>“only made me feel as though I had been thrust back into lockdown again, which is a very upsetting reminder for myself and for a lot of people. It triggers bad memories of a very difficult period in our lives. It also assumes that we must all mourn, and we all must mourn in the same way – by enveloping ourselves in the passing of the Queen - by not being able to think about anything else. Life has literally stopped. A lot of people who are in mourning right now might grieve differently from the way they have been told to grieve during this mourning period – by watching a comedy show, going out for lunch or to the cinema. This period of closure has stopped all of that.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;"><i>David Holland, 57, told me that he welcomed the closures, as it bought him a day to spend with his wife and children to talk about the Queen and celebrate her life, as well as having time to recognise and be grateful for his own family.</i><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><!--[if !supportAnnotations]--></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;">“It was a day where we came together, watched the funeral, and then spent the rest of the day being grateful for each other, - and the fact that we weren’t at work!”<o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A lot of families, however, struggled for childcare in the event of the school closures. While some were still working, it meant that many parents were grappling with a way to navigate the closure.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">One parent tweeted</span><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"> </span><b><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">'I'm freelance so won't get a paid day off, I also have to pay for the day my daughter should be in childcare even if it's closed. So, I pay twice. Working class people will be working to keep the country running, so who benefits?'</span></b><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;">Good question.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;">And, apparently, it definitely didn't benefit fans of football. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;">In response to a </span><a href="https://twitter.com/premierleague/status/1568185317169188864"><span style="background: white; color: #674ea7; line-height: 17.12px;"><b>tweet</b></span></a><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"> from the Premier League account announcing the postponement of the Premier League match last weekend, one Twitter user wrote <b>‘Minutes silence, kneeling down and black armbands are enough for the weekend games. Don’t postpone the matches’.</b><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A former employee of Norwich Football club, when asked about their opinion of the postponement of <span style="font-family: inherit;">the match, informed me that it <i>“made no sense to cancel the football. Football is an internationally shared form of entertainment, and the Premier League is enjoyed by fans across the world. So, to cancel it seems like we are enforcing our agenda onto the entire world”.</i></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;">It seems that, interestingly, some club games were cancelled while others were not. One narrative on social media is that some senior officials were worried that disdain or disrespect for the monarchy would be given an enormous platform and that the games that remain postponed are that of clubs that are considered more likely to exhibit sentiments of anti-establishment.</span><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Reports say that the cancellations or postponements were due to the pressures put on the police resources, as a consequence of the huge swathes of people coming together to mourn the Queen.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;">Brighton’s match against Crystal Palace has remained in a state of postponement after the </span><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/rail-strikes-rmt-cancelled-queen-b2163360.html"><span style="background: white; color: #674ea7; line-height: 17.12px;"><b>rail strikes</b></span></a>;<span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"> - which were also postponed. However, the game still did not go ahead.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 17.12px;">A Twitter user shared a</span><a href="https://twitter.com/StephenJLee1987/status/1569785767068581888?s=20&t=3Vfr47pZqHtc6RTefxZimQ" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"> <b><span style="color: #674ea7;">video</span></b></span></a><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> of a Liverpool match, where the one-minute silence was cut short due to a few people refusing to honour the silence. The user tweeted: </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">‘absolutely disgusting </b><b>behaviour</b><b style="font-family: inherit;">’.</b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;">This has brought into question the validity of free speech, and whether the cancellation of these games was a way of silencing any opposition during the period of Royal Mourning – feeding into the pattern of ‘</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cancel_culture"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">cancel culture</span></b>’</span></a><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"> – or whether it was indeed the correct thing to do, for safety’s sake, and for the sake of respect.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;">It is a subject in many people’s minds this week, as arrests by the British Police Force in response to anti-monarchist protesters become more numerous as the days roll on, (several dozen have been arrested ahead of the funeral by the Met Police), alighting the topic of discussion of anti-free speech on social media and making </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2022/sep/13/not-my-king-the-anti-monarchy-protesters-being-threatened-with-arrest-video-report"><span style="background: white; color: #674ea7; line-height: 17.12px;"><b>headlines</b></span></a><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"> in the news. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As well as physical protests, opposition towards the monarchy, the funeral, and the monumental attention they have been receiving is prevalent on social media. Many are wondering why people are focusing so heavily on the Queen whilst people all over the country are currently enduring such financial hardship, which the period of cancellations arguably contributed to. A <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11202415/Grace-Tame-shares-single-image-believes-sums-Queens-death.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">photo</span></b></a> of a homeless man sitting beside a large billboard of the Queen circulated social media with the caption '<b>never seen a picture speak so many words', </b>echoing this sentiment. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;">Owen Jones, a British newspaper columnist, tweeted about his concern over the economic struggles due to the cost-of-living crisis, and that the abundance of cancellations is problematic for the financial well-being of people who will suffer further consequently:<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8j-kAExaCkDJF_vacrGpOTPi7Myz6LbODoM6tNb2jGN4PvRsX1qapo5KunBxbEP7BJFqXE8MEZ7EVznJZE_truEcnQEmhGouPlD4gXAAt8M_yT5210H2QnZM3h21Yuml8WFe8w5a6MwL77qJJ8HVErSjxNF9b1hsLj5qcqUBsb-t2Meu-xmkiQ0zk/s523/4.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="523" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8j-kAExaCkDJF_vacrGpOTPi7Myz6LbODoM6tNb2jGN4PvRsX1qapo5KunBxbEP7BJFqXE8MEZ7EVznJZE_truEcnQEmhGouPlD4gXAAt8M_yT5210H2QnZM3h21Yuml8WFe8w5a6MwL77qJJ8HVErSjxNF9b1hsLj5qcqUBsb-t2Meu-xmkiQ0zk/w333-h221/4.png" width="333" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;">This is perpetuated by the Bank of England reporting that it is postponing its </span><a href="https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/about/people/monetary-policy-committee"><span style="background: white; color: #674ea7; line-height: 17.12px;"><b>Monetary Policy Ctee</b></span></a><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"> meeting by 7 days. Wilfred Frost tweeted that he is ‘amazed’ at this announcement:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq3uiYgB7lAJFRErPkTdYMoSi7DXqp_XejqoZoUqeqWvO6DODJQeTFK705G_uKt5ce2AXseVV95LveVyz50fo7l4Dwlxhx_uXLBy_Q26ttb_tA86_BuInGHrPYH2jPZUC6VLZFO1807jJAZr_xxiETyDymYOp88tZZdXdDvVglpzGQiwDSxKYa1WoQ/s581/5.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="271" data-original-width="581" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq3uiYgB7lAJFRErPkTdYMoSi7DXqp_XejqoZoUqeqWvO6DODJQeTFK705G_uKt5ce2AXseVV95LveVyz50fo7l4Dwlxhx_uXLBy_Q26ttb_tA86_BuInGHrPYH2jPZUC6VLZFO1807jJAZr_xxiETyDymYOp88tZZdXdDvVglpzGQiwDSxKYa1WoQ/w411-h192/5.png" width="411" /></a></div><div style="text-align: right;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;">Services such as doctors and hospital appointments, cancer treatments, surgeries and </span><a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2022/09/13/funerals-cancelled-monday-bereaved-families-claim-royal-grief/"><span style="background: white; color: #674ea7; line-height: 17.12px;"><b>funerals</b></span></a><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"> were also been reported to have been cancelled or rescheduled on the day of the Queen’s Funeral.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-paragraph" style="background: white; margin: 0cm; mso-background-themecolor: background1; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">Marly McKenna, a mother of a two-year-old with respiratory issues, expresses that she is ‘dismayed’ after her </span><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-62915217."><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #674ea7;"><b>toddler's much anticipated and necessary appointment was cancelled</b></span></a><i><span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial;">; </span></i><i>"I understand that she</i> <i>was our head of state, but there are services still needed. Healthcare should be available 24-7, things still need to run.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-paragraph" style="background: white; margin: 0cm; mso-background-themecolor: background1; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>"This is different from other public sectors,"</i> she added.</span></p><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-paragraph" style="background: white; margin: 0cm; mso-background-themecolor: background1; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-paragraph" style="background: white; margin: 0cm; mso-background-themecolor: background1; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Some hospitals say they were operating as usual, whilst others have said they postponed non-urgent appointments.</span></p><p class="ssrcss-1q0x1qg-paragraph" style="background: white; margin: 0cm; mso-background-themecolor: background1; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Dr. Shola Mos-Shogbamimu, a Lawyer and Women’s Right’s Activist, expresses on ByLine Tv that in her opinion it is<i> “really insulting to suggest that the Queen’s passing makes all of the real lifetime sufferings of people pale in significance. The cancellations make no sense. I agree that this is a moment of historical importance. But hell no should it dominate news coverage at a time when we should be placing intense scrutiny on the Government.”<o:p></o:p></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Or, you could argue, perhaps we should hold our tongues and accept that an extremely beloved and respected monarch has passed on, and this very brief and temporary interval should be forgiven.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;">It is true that many people were already willingly putting their lives on halt to stand in the 5-mile-long queue for the Queen’s </span><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/about/how/occasions/lyinginstate/"><span style="background: white; color: #674ea7; line-height: 17.12px;"><b>Lying-In-State</b></span></a><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;">, </span><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;">to say goodbye to Her Majesty.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">But the controversy surrounding the cancellations continued.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Henry Mance, who writes for the Financial Times, wrote:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Ikszavj_u3BmmaJXen5vzSYVy93WrUQO2c3GDXuY1TxGqAFjG4SaLDZngJHJlE3_v8ho-y53-l-WeP8lyUAmkqmptDaRde_3KUVEkvUPmcO1Zsw8J2oypn0bOFLEIdQUFtpGJrdyofXqZgrzMnjiMb9O57q1mb7s5350v9sJFb_gdAEeVqM0-W4x/s523/6.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="523" height="122" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_Ikszavj_u3BmmaJXen5vzSYVy93WrUQO2c3GDXuY1TxGqAFjG4SaLDZngJHJlE3_v8ho-y53-l-WeP8lyUAmkqmptDaRde_3KUVEkvUPmcO1Zsw8J2oypn0bOFLEIdQUFtpGJrdyofXqZgrzMnjiMb9O57q1mb7s5350v9sJFb_gdAEeVqM0-W4x/w378-h122/6.png" width="378" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Perhaps his tweet is called for?<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">At least, after another viral tweet of a bicycle rack in Norwich being out-of-use during this period appeared on my feed, I was inclined to see his point:</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvVjNiIm_HPWdRDUojQE-7n63mPJJW32QrBrrW6bF_lC0FdRZztjMDwVNuIjyt-Y-HH4JI4skqa8lx7gTKBPN6acFQX1c9yfExY18PVlwdgvUIKgS1cXllFCNlxPRYN5DgejLMipGrAeR_ndfa0IIGTG8zpl8XXuNYgR0y8KfE3ct6muoHj5btg150/s538/8.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="538" data-original-width="501" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvVjNiIm_HPWdRDUojQE-7n63mPJJW32QrBrrW6bF_lC0FdRZztjMDwVNuIjyt-Y-HH4JI4skqa8lx7gTKBPN6acFQX1c9yfExY18PVlwdgvUIKgS1cXllFCNlxPRYN5DgejLMipGrAeR_ndfa0IIGTG8zpl8XXuNYgR0y8KfE3ct6muoHj5btg150/w361-h336/8.png" width="361" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;">All you cyclists in Norwich, you’d better find somewhere else to lock up your bike.</span></a> <span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"> Like one of the shut-up shops, perhaps?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Or a nearby tree?</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Oh, but wait;</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHUM5-qzaXPajax-XLVrPQ3lZHJXEtZIDdRvwSezfWAf0a7x6_SW5c5OKQeAROsgKO7V5aCod3AUQWrx-x78R7_RewK9pZG7EP0l3EByHd3JmqlYxi3qq1Gsf4Xa9bNuzgtEVcqHRM0HMMaMuygUqr0I49TkUDaMQBOwcUe-Oy_cmYFbhS1fDl1RgQ/s523/7.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="148" data-original-width="523" height="121" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHUM5-qzaXPajax-XLVrPQ3lZHJXEtZIDdRvwSezfWAf0a7x6_SW5c5OKQeAROsgKO7V5aCod3AUQWrx-x78R7_RewK9pZG7EP0l3EByHd3JmqlYxi3qq1Gsf4Xa9bNuzgtEVcqHRM0HMMaMuygUqr0I49TkUDaMQBOwcUe-Oy_cmYFbhS1fDl1RgQ/w426-h121/7.png" width="426" /></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Trees are also out of order.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;">Whatever your opinion on the cancellations, and, indeed, the monarchy itself, the funeral was certainly grand and something to behold. The grandeur, the aesthetics, the theatrics of the guard, soldiers and navy – it was a captivating, historical event marking the end of a 70-year reign.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 17.12px;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;">Perhaps you shed a tear as ‘God Save the Queen’ was sung at a slower, more melancholic tempo. </span>Or when the hearse drove through the streets while grief-stricken crowds clapped and threw flowers towards the passing vehicle in testament to Queen Elizabeth II. Or when you realised Prince Louis - (who is known for screaming in public and jabbing his hands into his mother's face) - hadn't been bought along for the occasion. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Or perhaps you were someone grievously impacted by the cancellations of the last week, and spent the day trying to remedy the repercussions the period of Royal Mourning had on your life.<span style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><span style="color: #a64d79;">Ella Rowdon</span><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Ella is a writer, a postgraduate Dramaturgy and Writing for Performance student at Goldsmiths, and a Drama practitioner. Her writing and research topics include sociology and politics. <span style="font-family: inherit;">Follow this link for Ella Rowdon's </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/ella-rowdon-312726183/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">LinkedIn</a></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 17.12px;"><u><b>References</b></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><ul><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-demise-of-her-majesty-queen-elizabeth-ii-national-mourning-guidance/the-demise-of-her-majesty-queen-elizabeth-ii-national-mourning-guidance">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/the-demise-of-her-majesty-queen-elizabeth-ii-national-mourning-guidance/the-demise-of-her-majesty-queen-elizabeth-ii-national-mourning-guidance</a></span> </span></li><li><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><u><a href="https://www.nationalworld.com/lifestyle/travel/center-parcs-holidaymakers-outraged-uk-sites-close-for-queens-funeral-what-has-been-said-3842076">https://www.nationalworld.com/lifestyle/travel/center-parcs-holidaymakers-outraged-uk-sites-close-for-queens-funeral-what-has-been-said-3842076</a></u></span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><u><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-62915217">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-62915217</a></u></span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><u><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-62887296">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-62887296</a></u></span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.getreading.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/full-list-cancelled-heathrow-airport-25052140" target="_blank">https://www.getreading.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/full-list-cancelled-heathrow-airport-25052140</a><br /></span></li><li><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.nhsconfed.org/news/nhs-will-continue-providing-support-patients-over-bank-holiday">https://www.nhsconfed.org/news/nhs-will-continue-providing-support-patients-over-bank-holiday</a></span></li><li><span style="color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/food-banks-open-queens-funeral-25048063">https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/cost-of-living/food-banks-open-queens-funeral-25048063</a></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><u><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/queen-death-what-events-cancelled-b2163629.html" target="_blank">https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/queen-death-what-events-cancelled-b2163629.html</a></u></span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.netmums.com/child/schools-will-close-for-the-queens-funeral">https://www.netmums.com/child/schools-will-close-for-the-queens-funeral</a></span></span></li><li><span style="line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><u><a href="https://m.facebook.com/BylineTV/videos/772533470619541/">https://m.facebook.com/BylineTV/videos/772533470619541/</a></u></span></span></li><li><span style="font-size: x-small; line-height: 17.12px;"><a href="https://www.espn.co.uk/football/english-premier-league/story/4742198/premier-league-suspended-after-death-of-queen-elizabeth-ii">https://www.espn.co.uk/football/english-premier-league/story/4742198/premier-league-suspended-after-death-of-queen-elizabeth-ii</a></span></li></ul><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 17.12px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></p><div><!--[if !supportAnnotations]--><div><div class="msocomtxt" id="_com_1" language="JavaScript"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div></div></div></div>Ella Rowdonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13771426021446904427noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812126921403364241.post-5808340705120730382022-09-06T15:59:00.005+00:002022-10-03T00:03:17.692+00:00Sanna Marin’s Moves: Who Gets to be Human? <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA0W3VihAAghaYzXrVDOBj1JdRy30HVIkfcMbYkMHB8RsU2DdsjgcjWDb9apulrfIXjLvzmhOPJCJoyvbwFzDe5JddgHXKXMu0ARxgWp6dqYcGyhrK1rGQ3X1-JP-i5dfAFic8OAbH8Wmoif4F0Na7_67s0dNmI-RxTDQkWLsN8arpa8tfKCOD5f0YGw/s638/Picture%201.png%20sanna%20.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="638" data-original-width="638" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA0W3VihAAghaYzXrVDOBj1JdRy30HVIkfcMbYkMHB8RsU2DdsjgcjWDb9apulrfIXjLvzmhOPJCJoyvbwFzDe5JddgHXKXMu0ARxgWp6dqYcGyhrK1rGQ3X1-JP-i5dfAFic8OAbH8Wmoif4F0Na7_67s0dNmI-RxTDQkWLsN8arpa8tfKCOD5f0YGw/w322-h322/Picture%201.png%20sanna%20.png" width="322" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Drawing a line between having fun and acting responsibly has been notoriously difficult for people in positions of authority. When individuals look up to you, and their lives are influenced by the decisions you make, they are inevitably interested in what your day off consists of. However, as we have seen in the case of Sanna Marin: sometimes they are <i>too</i> interested. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">While politicians and teachers arguably could not be more dissimilar, both must appeal to their audience: whether that’s a nation, or a class of opinionated teenagers. However, maintaining the right to engage in normal activities, without receiving unjustified online abuse, is essential for fulfilling a healthy private life outside of the office. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sanna Marin </span><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62588480" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">“danced, sang and partied – perfectly legal things.”</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> However, social media says otherwise. With multiple reprimands and disapproving remarks endured on social media after one of the party guests posted videos featuring a dancing Sanna Marin, it would not be unreasonable to mistake her for an unruly teenager returning home intoxicated on a school night. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Branded as </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Valavuori/status/1559971125068693508?s=20&t=seBnDJhQU6IKjIY5-JY3lA" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">‘<b><span style="color: #674ea7;">the most incompetent PM’</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span></b>Finland has ever had, critics have castigated Marin for her </span><a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-11129515/Finnish-PM-Sanna-Marins-party-loving-celebrity-friends.html" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">‘raucous’</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> night out at a friend’s home. Not only was she told to take a drugs test to prove her innocence after suggestions of the illegal use of narcotics, but she has also apologised for having </span><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62648909" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">two topless party guests</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span></b>in a different party back in July.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWp0MafvXEncr-d_w0AEQMy8MJx5UPOQzYPY3ahR7TQ79AqZrqMbU48n8_ZTx4Zw1NWC-FfNjNHOTBTB0eLPfWrn_AUlJiFhV-9uZmrAfVzm4HLQ6tSA00M8Le-_uhaLXyhmznRfBdJMRVnUZ2Ac0qVMbouI8jaZAZUk7pZ4v1AbLqM2BCZVE34Z_DMQ/s694/big%20tweet%20sanna%20.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="306" data-original-width="694" height="176" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWp0MafvXEncr-d_w0AEQMy8MJx5UPOQzYPY3ahR7TQ79AqZrqMbU48n8_ZTx4Zw1NWC-FfNjNHOTBTB0eLPfWrn_AUlJiFhV-9uZmrAfVzm4HLQ6tSA00M8Le-_uhaLXyhmznRfBdJMRVnUZ2Ac0qVMbouI8jaZAZUk7pZ4v1AbLqM2BCZVE34Z_DMQ/w400-h176/big%20tweet%20sanna%20.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="https://twitter.com/Valavuori/status/1559971125068693508?s=20&t=seBnDJhQU6IKjIY5-JY3lA" style="background-color: white; color: #954f72; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Twitter.com</a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It would be naïve to assume that there were no drugs at the party attended by Sanna Marin. There may have been, just like with any other party so many of us have chosen to attend. Taking a drugs test is not an automatic precondition for your individual right to party. While Sanna Marin is a prime minister, she is still a woman who likes, and maintains the right, to go out with her friends: why should she have to take a drugs test? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A video recently surfaced of Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese chugging a beer at a </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crHEssZt10s" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Gang of Youths concert.</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> As the physical cheering suggests, the virtual cheering has also been duly noted. While he is within his right to have down time, social media searches for accusations of imprudence will amount to very little in this instance. Could this be because he is a 59-year-old man? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjonLJXsp3lSb-N-JnTvrbdLhXR8Hm0_fegMLLKeckrVuIhFKbtO2-M5lqnKAZvsNkteSPFhlIfnn2q3rB483zRjUBataPqrSyPxmrQ5IL3aTCtEBAf9ltYaFg4IzdS1ZtxN1apAisHyy7XvvKt5QP9h2hgYL2IBEmH9JLtlATGTA7_sF9PyK78x2z9WQ/s904/tweet%202%20sanna%20.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="240" data-original-width="904" height="106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjonLJXsp3lSb-N-JnTvrbdLhXR8Hm0_fegMLLKeckrVuIhFKbtO2-M5lqnKAZvsNkteSPFhlIfnn2q3rB483zRjUBataPqrSyPxmrQ5IL3aTCtEBAf9ltYaFg4IzdS1ZtxN1apAisHyy7XvvKt5QP9h2hgYL2IBEmH9JLtlATGTA7_sF9PyK78x2z9WQ/w400-h106/tweet%202%20sanna%20.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It seems that this is a recurring theme. In 2011, previous Russian prime minister and president </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpK7_IJmJgI" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Dmitry Medvedev</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> was videoed dancing, albeit not quite as skilfully as Sanna Marin, at a party. Deemed as comedic perhaps, but certainly not scandalous. The same goes for </span><a href="https://www.indy100.com/viral/michael-gove-aberdeen-nightclub-dancing-b1910707" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Conservative MP Michael Gove</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, who busted a few iconic moves in a nightclub in Aberdeen last year. As the title of an article suggests, people were </span><a href="https://www.indy100.com/viral/michael-gove-aberdeen-nightclub-dancing-b1910707" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">‘loving it’</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">.</span></b> Marin is young, attractive, and female: which seems to have played a role in the reasons why she has received more backlash than her older, male political counterparts. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A mention of the so-called ‘flour gang’ in the video led viewers to believe that Marin may have done drugs, while she was deemed as irresponsible for dancing at a time when Finland is in economic crisis since the onset of Covid-19. However, as Marin said herself, she acted both legally and in a way that was </span><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/finland-pm-sanna-marin-dancing-video_uk_62fe4550e4b0f48a0204f898" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">‘<span style="color: #674ea7;">pretty much the same as many people my age’</span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. </span></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIpbnMo28mYBgRJ-NjQFqSrFKG-2lWVI-qhCgdhGdgfsk7ce0xw3oO9LICJsABbG9h3OQTZbskUKlRYY0GzzqrXX0lcu-xG6tk6DNwHTaeBlnWuDNrOeLFBPxaoFZbYpgks_yaZrZ3m2NuZz9W-wE-O8Vwlgjn2ORpLudsPnH3IboJuNMHSK70NeEOsQ/s904/tweet%203%20sanna%20.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="154" data-original-width="904" height="69" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIpbnMo28mYBgRJ-NjQFqSrFKG-2lWVI-qhCgdhGdgfsk7ce0xw3oO9LICJsABbG9h3OQTZbskUKlRYY0GzzqrXX0lcu-xG6tk6DNwHTaeBlnWuDNrOeLFBPxaoFZbYpgks_yaZrZ3m2NuZz9W-wE-O8Vwlgjn2ORpLudsPnH3IboJuNMHSK70NeEOsQ/w400-h69/tweet%203%20sanna%20.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="https://twitter.com/hannu_hhhh" style="background-color: white; color: #954f72; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Twitter.com</a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As the UK’s </span><a href="https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/politics/955416/timeline-downing-street-lockdown-party-scandal" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">party gate scanda</span></b>l</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> has shown, there is a time and a place to have a party: that is not in the midst of a pandemic, when Conservative MPs chose to disregard the rules they had themselves created. Sanna Marin, on the other hand, did not break the law, as her negative drugs test result also proves. Instead, she was perfectly within her right to have a night out with friends. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The glaring double standard has not been glazed over by social media. Instead, women are standing in #SolidaritywithSanna on social media platforms. Sharing videos of themselves dancing, women are showing their support for the plight of Marin against the exponential social media backlash. As Sanna Marin said herself: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/sanna-marin-finland-party-video-b2151722.html" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">“I too am human. And I too sometimes long for joy, light and fun among these dark clouds,”</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><br /></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As stated by Labour MP Charlotte Nichols, being a young member of parliament requires that you do not tweet about </span><a href="https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/whats-it-like-being-an-mp-in-your-twenties" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">‘having a big bag of cans with the lads’</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, as there is a line between letting your hair down and attracting bad headlines. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, it is easy to forget that individuals in positions of authority do have a life outside of the professional realm they appear to permanently inhabit. While teachers’ private lives are far from front page news due to being private citizens, ‘Mrs Smith Sacks off School for Local Beer Chugging Bonanza’ would certainly grab my attention if I was an 18-year-old sixth form student. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Walking into the pub and seeing my teacher not only sat at the bar, but equipped with a full tray of Jägerbombs, is still a shocking occurrence. “What are you doing here Miss?” is no doubt a familiar question endured by my old teacher, who we forget is only in her mid-thirties. When my teacher turned up for the fun splash session at my part-time lifeguarding job, I recall feeling confused: They have a life outside of my form room? Children? Regular swimming essentials? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWBaK2CW5KB74oS4fOez8fgyQ0GurlwoJ9TLRA3nGcCcm7KienP6jGWHJGz5Ve44jRETQYNGY85bCc22j_xPl9400nlWAunePRyz39rFLZjdn1yLX5IpjdL3XqarvPXvul-88j8s9bRctz7s441douoBcvi58HXu8tsR1PYzFojPfq2khjHq_DLh5TNg/s849/teacher%20pic%20.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="849" height="201" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWBaK2CW5KB74oS4fOez8fgyQ0GurlwoJ9TLRA3nGcCcm7KienP6jGWHJGz5Ve44jRETQYNGY85bCc22j_xPl9400nlWAunePRyz39rFLZjdn1yLX5IpjdL3XqarvPXvul-88j8s9bRctz7s441douoBcvi58HXu8tsR1PYzFojPfq2khjHq_DLh5TNg/w400-h201/teacher%20pic%20.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="https://blog.mimio.com/classroom-friendly-social-media-options-for-teachers" style="background-color: white; color: #954f72; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;">Blog.mimio.com</a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As made particularly clear in recent news, social media can be a dangerous place for teachers alike. Online dating is something many of us take for granted, but it seems that teachers must proceed with caution when searching for partners in the world of Tinder, Bumble or Hinge. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Dating is a regular facet of many individual’s criteria for living a fulfilling private life outside of workplace relations. Yet, as someone in the public eye, or someone in a position of authority, online dating is increasingly becoming more difficult. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Worries confessed by an anonymous teacher: Are they related to any of my students? If I add Negronis to my profile’s list of likes, will I appear irresponsible? Will I bump into students when on the actual date? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It seems that an increasing number of students have created fake dating profiles in which their teachers have matched with. As they arrive for the date, they are not greeted with Brian, the 35-year-old marketing executive from Newcastle, but instead an empty table. In fact, </span><a href="https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/exclusive-humiliation-how-more-teachers-are-falling-victim-pupils-cruel-online-pranks" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">1 in 10 teachers</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> have suffered online abuse at the hands of their pupils. With the number of people completing traditional teacher-prep programs dropping by </span><a href="https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/new-from-nea/missing-future-teachers-colleges-education" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">35% in the last 10 years</span></b>,</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> teaching is increasingly becoming a less attractive profession: and this will not help. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How does Sanna Marin compare to a teacher worried about online dating? Both individuals must second guess their every move in fear of condemnation or awkward encounters. Certain occupations do involve a trade-off between living a comfortable private life and fulfilling your chosen career. However, whether you are a teacher unable to use dating apps, or a prime minister unable to go out with friends, there is a notable issue at hand. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">While New Zealand’s PM Jacinda Ardern refrains from commenting on other nations’ domestic politics, when questioned on Sanna Marin’s social media backlash, she has asked whether politics appears as an attractive profession for political hopefuls. </span><a href="https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/jacinda-ardern-defends-finnish-prime-minister-sanna-marin-after-party-footage-leak/news-story/6a4db62546ef1081eace6d1edcbc2311" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">“How do we constantly make sure that we attract people to politics, rather than - perhaps as has been historically the case - put them off."</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Evidently, as </span><a href="https://www.uk-cpa.org/news-and-views/online-violence-against-women-parliamentarians-hinders-democracy-and-all-parliamentarians-are-responsible-for-addressing-it/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">women in politics are 27 times more likely</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> to face online abuse compared with their male counterparts, it is perhaps unsurprising that they often feel dissuaded from standing for elections. In Australia, </span><a href="https://www.zerotolerance.org.uk/news/blog/online-violence-against-women-in-politics-the-cause-and-consequence/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">60% of women between 18 and 21, and 80% of women over the age of 31, said they were less likely to stand for elections</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> after witnessing the amount of online abuse former PM Julia Gillard was subjected to. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In response to Ardern’s question, a career in politics is increasingly appearing as unattractive, especially for women. Reprimanding Sanna Marin for her dance moves is in direct opposition with ongoing plans to level the international political playing field.</span></div></span><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW38196838 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-thickness: initial; widows: 2;"><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW64109946 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW51738155 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW218570807 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; 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padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><br /></div>Lucy is an undergraduate BSc Politics and International Relations student at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests include social stratification and international political theory.</div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW38071110 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration-thickness: initial;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Linkedin: </span><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-thomas-b598ab200/" style="font-family: inherit;">/in/lucy-thomas</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sources: </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">https://twitter.com/Valavuori/status/1559971125068693508?s=20&t=seBnDJhQU6IKjIY5-JY3lA <br />https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62588480 <br />https://twitter.com/Valavuori/status/1559971125068693508?s=20&t=seBnDJhQU6IKjIY5-JY3lA <br />https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-62648909<br />https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpK7_IJmJgI <br />https://www.indy100.com/viral/michael-gove-aberdeen-nightclub-dancing-b1910707 <br />https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/finland-pm-sanna-marin-dancing-video_uk_62fe4550e4b0f48a0204f898<br />https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/politics/955416/timeline-downing-street-lockdown-party-scandal<br />https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/world/sanna-marin-finland-party-video-b2152040.html<br />https://www.politicshome.com/thehouse/article/whats-it-like-being-an-mp-in-your-twenties <br />https://www.tes.com/magazine/archive/exclusive-humiliation-how-more-teachers-are-falling-victim-pupils-cruel-online-pranks<br />https://www.skynews.com.au/australia-news/jacinda-ardern-defends-finnish-prime-minister-sanna-marin-after-party-footage-leak/news-story/6a4db62546ef1081eace6d1edcbc2311</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></div></div></div></div>Lucy Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02845891489099059127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812126921403364241.post-86767855877459240772022-09-05T19:12:00.002+00:002022-09-24T05:45:28.596+00:004liferz: Online Relationships & Our Parasocial Relationships With Them <div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-LK9aGoApTL8imr7wm-HWXZfZ8y3GfnIHrTQWvrasZOeFCMjsq0v5_9sU9y3PuzRJvkQcnYx1fI4mZRFuxYoG6u01L-yAkqWZGHWY-u86ICRiLsk62NjRhDewzCOT-NcgVK0y87VMSYPUvVJUV2xD8fVeLUKA-XaroxxU0-8VRiRJDtHiBXCNrncW/s6000/pexels-fauxels-3228726.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4000" data-original-width="6000" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-LK9aGoApTL8imr7wm-HWXZfZ8y3GfnIHrTQWvrasZOeFCMjsq0v5_9sU9y3PuzRJvkQcnYx1fI4mZRFuxYoG6u01L-yAkqWZGHWY-u86ICRiLsk62NjRhDewzCOT-NcgVK0y87VMSYPUvVJUV2xD8fVeLUKA-XaroxxU0-8VRiRJDtHiBXCNrncW/w400-h266/pexels-fauxels-3228726.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image Credit: Pexels</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Everyone loves Love. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While a greatly reductive and stereotyping statement, there is no doubt that this is the slogan that a great amount of media goes by. It explains the multi-million-dollar industry that is the dating-app and dating-website world, explains the strong appeal of romance books and films and the consistent presence of ‘love, love, love’ in music from The Beatles to Kanye West, and explains the reason many of us watch Love, Actually, every year at Christmas (myself included). Love sells, love is what so many of us want to hear about - and love is what we want to see online.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">So, it isn’t exactly surprising that, when couples put their life online, we watch. Couples who operate YouTube and TikTok accounts together often come across a wealth of subscribers and media attention who love to see them love each other. Fan edits of ‘heart eyes’ and ‘cute moments’, update accounts for every little kiss, and even roleplay groups abound, in a cultural climate that’s become so intensely obsessed with the personal, a legacy of Big Brother. We, the viewers, become a devoted third to a relationship, like it’s our own personal show.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is a phenomenon that is truly remarkable, and one that has come under more and more scrutiny as it’s grown. In her thesis, Marisol Botello (2021) identified four different categories of ‘marketing’ that couple channels use in their content to maximise engagement – video formulas, personal storytelling, visuals, and ‘acting couply’. These four all contribute towards creating a friendship-like relationship with the audience and create the false intimacy that seems to make these channels so successful.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>‘Just like having a couple that you are friends with in real life, they are people who say ‘hi’ and ‘bye’ to you; who tell you their personal stories with intimate details; who share not just stories, but photos and videos of their life; and who are comfortable acting couply around you.’</i> (Botello, 39)</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We become voyeuristically interested in other people’s lives – and this isn’t just confined to couple channels. With <a href="https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210302-why-we-cant-stop-peeking-into-other-peoples-lives">the 2020 Covid-19 pandemic</a>, social media and reality show consumption rocketed up, with a lack of personal social life being replaced by consumable alternatives. The opportunity to learn about lives we’re curious about, that are different to ours – such as the ultra-rich (The Real Housewives) or celebrities (The Kardashians) - is something that seems to really drag us in, and something that keeps us coming back for more updates on baby names, petty arguments, and weddings consumed by the millions.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcewXZdG97IkBOFcdYhgIoNSsICAq1F_EW2E6I_28IKykzkVwhZssZsTFUjceL8AoHyXJhXkQzNGrgUKeqsudoXphwXEqaY2wQe7q0icqNR8ESzl01jehkYF83cBGV_1xPD-xEM2LMDMlWsWiQmNr0dVhlRuOcR6GNtsiKx3N0hTazpLcc7KCIeJVt/s290/kimandkanye.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="174" data-original-width="290" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcewXZdG97IkBOFcdYhgIoNSsICAq1F_EW2E6I_28IKykzkVwhZssZsTFUjceL8AoHyXJhXkQzNGrgUKeqsudoXphwXEqaY2wQe7q0icqNR8ESzl01jehkYF83cBGV_1xPD-xEM2LMDMlWsWiQmNr0dVhlRuOcR6GNtsiKx3N0hTazpLcc7KCIeJVt/w400-h240/kimandkanye.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image Credit: Hello! Magazine</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But when does this become problematic?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">While there has been increased attention on the nature of parasocial relationships with celebrities in recent years - particularly in response to the outpouring of support for Johnny Depp in his trial against Amber Heard, despite much evidence to the contrary of his claims (and strong evidence of him being violently abusive) - no one seems to have considered the problems that come when viewers find themselves attached to online couples, not just for the viewer, but for the couple themselves. When your relationship becomes your business by being someone else’s business, what happens to it? Can it continue to exist? Is it healthy? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">As I write this introduction, I don’t know. So, let’s go on a journey together - and why don’t we take one of these couples along with us for the ride? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rose and Rosie - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/RoseAndRosie"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Rose and Rosie</b></span></a> / <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/RoseAndRosieVlogs"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Rose and Rosie Vlogs</b></span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rose Ellen Dix and Rosie Spaughton are a married couple who have been present as a couple on YouTube since January 2012, only a short while after they began dating, in a video called <a href="https://youtu.be/Re9aEyH30F8"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>‘CURRY FARTS AND MELODRAMA’</b></span></a>. With over 247 million views and over 1 million subscribers, we can tell that their dynamic has gone miles in making them some of the most popular creators on the platform, and has earned them a number of high-profile sponsorships, a book deal, and an international tour. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But it’s their relationship that is the hinge of their channel. So, let’s talk about them. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitiCHsUpQicWrd9abuGOeuEnnjL1Y8afHYnQqhfvf3IoqMGx8ArAyt4iYHnDTvX1dYrkw2wAJ6t7L7laoszM24st4CYMcJKzJb6DuPOMFYhvMJNYQPHwlMq1cuJt0GHXlzd6lU4FmFX1sVjQF5MkFAJf6HsYMZqjWxl2DH2ZscJ1Mb8JQfJhFFOfwR/s1698/Screenshot%202022-09-01%20at%2012.25.12.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="956" data-original-width="1698" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitiCHsUpQicWrd9abuGOeuEnnjL1Y8afHYnQqhfvf3IoqMGx8ArAyt4iYHnDTvX1dYrkw2wAJ6t7L7laoszM24st4CYMcJKzJb6DuPOMFYhvMJNYQPHwlMq1cuJt0GHXlzd6lU4FmFX1sVjQF5MkFAJf6HsYMZqjWxl2DH2ZscJ1Mb8JQfJhFFOfwR/w400-h225/Screenshot%202022-09-01%20at%2012.25.12.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Screenshot from <a href="https://youtu.be/Re9aEyH30F8">https://youtu.be/Re9aEyH30F8</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rose and Rosie first met in 2007 at a Halloween party organised by Rosie, when Rose was 19 (and dressed as a ghost), and Rosie was 17 (and dressed as the Queen of Hearts). Both had partners at the time, but Rose has admitted to having had a huge crush on Rosie, and, eventually, they went on their first date in October 2011. It wasn’t until July 2012 that they became official, and by then, their YouTube journey had already started.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rose’s content on YouTube had mainly comprised of university assignments and one particularly popular KE$HA parody (no longer available on YouTube), but when Rosie came along, it turned into chattier content. Both girls would sit in Rosie’s flat and chat about whatever they felt like talking about, whether that was curry, stomach issues, or drunk karaoke. This led to their audience beginning to develop - and, as it got bigger, the relationship got more serious.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Eventually, the girls moved in together, along with a few friends as housemates, and, despite a few well-documented fallings-out (including a particularly nasty one about tweezers and eyebrows like Animal’s from The Muppets), things kept getting better. The set-up got slightly flashier, they began their <a href="https://youtu.be/E7AkdO-mGZk"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Superkiss</b></span></a> series, and were clearly very much in love. After a <a href="https://youtu.be/j4gUnsAL0FQ"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Valentine’s Day tribute</b></span></a> from Rose to Rosie, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZ1JwLdU9Jc"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>a cancelled RosWegLyn meet-up</b></span></a> with fellow lesbian YouTubers <a href="https://www.whatwegandidnext.com/p/about-wegan.html"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Megan and Whitney</b></span></a> (now making waves in the campaign for equal IVF rights for lesbian couples) and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/kaelynandlucy/featured"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Kaelyn and Lucy</b></span></a>, and the emotional sharing of both <a href="https://youtu.be/blfDU_xIuz8"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Rose</b></span></a> and <a href="https://youtu.be/doJjryFV8bU"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Rosie’s</b></span></a> coming out stories, it was time to take things further.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rose proposed to Rosie on 30th May, 2014 - Rosie’s 24th birthday - revealing in the process that she’d been filming the whole build-up and plan without Rosie knowing. The <a href="https://youtu.be/S5uul98UVbI"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>proposal video</b></span></a> is beautiful and heart-warming, deeply personal and hugely endearing - and that perhaps explains the 2.9 million views it has now. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">After much more of their typical content - including The States Game, smelling farts, video games, and a <a href="https://youtu.be/ksR7VISfLJA"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>draw-my-relationship tag</b></span></a> that told us even more about their love story - Rose and Rosie were married at Clearwell Castle on 20th March, 2015. Their wedding was the subject of a number of news articles, including one by <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/03/25/rose-and-rosie-wedding-youtube_n_6938388.html"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>The Huffington Post</b></span></a>, and their <a href="https://youtu.be/t3JvU1T83eo"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>wedding video</b></span></a> has been viewed over 2.42 million times.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUfZcy1fI7NRglWUXhuCcItRp1kaolvIbg7jL72wy7NX-qRa0fXFRTu9lK6GR5NbrCzIRiZ3Dp7q7jKNJnJfek7NYsIK3VMxbZmxCc0f_cN44BpHia2eD_NmVqb5OHBZEL5rVQ8hYF8J7LBX7Pfn0HjxOUhkMBenY-1-9ZkE_4WGoM6Y5GXGgK8Qiw/s960/rose%20and%20rosie.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="641" data-original-width="960" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUfZcy1fI7NRglWUXhuCcItRp1kaolvIbg7jL72wy7NX-qRa0fXFRTu9lK6GR5NbrCzIRiZ3Dp7q7jKNJnJfek7NYsIK3VMxbZmxCc0f_cN44BpHia2eD_NmVqb5OHBZEL5rVQ8hYF8J7LBX7Pfn0HjxOUhkMBenY-1-9ZkE_4WGoM6Y5GXGgK8Qiw/w400-h268/rose%20and%20rosie.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image Credit: Pinterest</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And then their content carried on. With a mix of vlogs and more ‘scripted’ content over the girls’ channels, previously named Rose Ellen Dix and Roxetera, their fame grew, and they posted content with celebrities like Chris Stark, Tituss Burgess, the Orange Is The New Black cast, and Antoine Fuqua. It wasn’t long until they wrote their book, <a href="https://gayprideshop.co.uk/products/overshare-love-laughs-sexuality-and-secrets-book?variant=33089836220470&gclid=Cj0KCQjw3eeXBhD7ARIsAHjssr_K71gmK7Hr9XW0ecnspHZHUKFxOmcyd7ayTL9qlw-oufl3hQBxldEaAh6vEALw_wcB"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Overshare</b></span></a>, about their lives and experiences as LGBTQ+ women, and recorded a <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rose-Rosie-Overshare-Ellen-Dix/dp/B07VLJPCJW"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>documentary</b></span></a> of the same name, before travelling on tour to promote it.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_6q032WDB3bs_6UHwar-oakjUs0RTUxYrh5WimTh867t_sjstQrA-Ac9XbNAmzBfjUQzbixmKGJkvCAb-wpmiL8xX3syZcedPOicjFASpW5iFp2auopbtFGMxT8jHm1A8AZvDzdguEpr993QrVxk0QRqQE13aFdXYoBD0JHrElYC5hqRHukys4Esw/s1141/rose%20and%20rosie%20overshare.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="1141" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_6q032WDB3bs_6UHwar-oakjUs0RTUxYrh5WimTh867t_sjstQrA-Ac9XbNAmzBfjUQzbixmKGJkvCAb-wpmiL8xX3syZcedPOicjFASpW5iFp2auopbtFGMxT8jHm1A8AZvDzdguEpr993QrVxk0QRqQE13aFdXYoBD0JHrElYC5hqRHukys4Esw/w400-h245/rose%20and%20rosie%20overshare.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image Credit: Tubefilter</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The videos continued, too. Thumbnails often featured them kissing, and anecdotes during videos would delve into their personal lives - such as an argument on a New Year’s Day about TopShop, or choosing a sperm donor.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Yes. Choosing a sperm donor. Rose and Rosie were ready to dive into their next adventure: parenthood. After tragically losing their first baby during the Covid-19 lockdown in 2020, the couple announced that Rosie was pregnant on 21st December 2020. Their journey to parenthood was documented from the beginning through their podcast, <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/667zSZZjcHnm2cs5KWyyZ3"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Rose and Rosie: Parental Guidance</b></span></a>, and soon enough, they welcomed their baby boy, Ziggy Wilder, in July 2021. The birth was narrated in almost excruciating detail in a <a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/3EzHfskbTfTOG8V47gPBXR"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>podcast special</b></span></a>, where we were told, by a cringing Rose, that she saw her wife ‘break in half’. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ziggy turned one just last month, and in the year since his birth, Rose and Rosie have continued their content based around themselves and their family. From discussing Rosie’s struggle with postpartum anxiety and depression, to taste-testing baby-food and panic-buying ping-pong tables that’re too big for the house, they’ve certainly taken us - their ‘frogs’ - along for the ride, and all of his alongside a thriving gaming channel too (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/LetsPlayGamesWithoutSkills"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Let’s Play Games</b></span></a>). </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Obviously, Rose and Rosie’s content comes from their relationship and their life together. An audience has been built off of their love for each other, and their own personal journeys through life together - and that has built their career. The girls have, as they’ve said themselves, a tendency to ‘overshare’ - hence the name of their book - but putting their relationship out for public consumption doesn’t seem to have affected it in any negative way, and they have integrated their fans into that family, maintaining a very down-to-earth and close approach with their audience. It works well, and it makes for a good watch - and they can never fail to put a smile on my face. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS-kYdZ8fTyp1EPStPSWFU-Dxg6GyA1MWpmj7GkK2CGILhLepcoWBq8tun3YLebkJVio8PfJDx5qW7ztDe0JorWHAy6VqptsUk1oQVeZ8F_fM6yqgAF8MW3AgXXxplQodWwNVRdO7SGttlieBmTh8fZ2ljH43u5cwgV19el7yWtHxF0kVxz5ec9dAI/s1200/rose-and-rosie-motherhood-1639066600.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS-kYdZ8fTyp1EPStPSWFU-Dxg6GyA1MWpmj7GkK2CGILhLepcoWBq8tun3YLebkJVio8PfJDx5qW7ztDe0JorWHAy6VqptsUk1oQVeZ8F_fM6yqgAF8MW3AgXXxplQodWwNVRdO7SGttlieBmTh8fZ2ljH43u5cwgV19el7yWtHxF0kVxz5ec9dAI/w400-h200/rose-and-rosie-motherhood-1639066600.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image Credit: Red</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But we must ask one question, and that is - how? How is it that, when putting their lives online, and when monetising off of their relationship, have they managed to keep that relationship so loving? How has their relationship survived that stress?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large;">Both Rose and Rosie have discussed the reasons why they share their lives online, and I think that’s what really does it for them. For them, it has always been about being a visible lesbian couple, being present online for those questioning to come across, being there. That’s what the podcast was about when they began trying to conceive, to show alternative ways of parenting and conceiving and what family looks like for all walks of life. They’re consistently authentic, they clearly love what they do (and each other), and they are entirely themselves. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And it’s also important to them, too, to get something back from it. Not only do they get a fantastic community and connection with their fans, which <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/apr/18/rose-and-rosie-youtube-stars-interview-rose-ellen-dix-rosie-spaughton">they’ve spoken about online</a>, but they equally get a channel of content dedicated to their own relationship. Rose spoke about this in a recent podcast episode in relation to their son, Ziggy, and the question of whether they would keep him online as he gets older: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rose: <i>That’s just a positive bonus for me - to be a visible same-sex family with a baby - I think that’s great and I hope that does inspire people to have the confidence to start their own family - and of course this podcast is all about helping people find those resources to do it. But selfishly, I just like to have video documentation of [Ziggy] at every age, because I think, how lovely is it that, as a result of being an influencer, a YouTuber, by making content online, I have all of these amazing videos of him doing all this different stuff … that I can look back and reflect on and think ‘I’ll always have that’. And if I wasn’t doing the job that I was doing, I might not have got off my arse and edited a video every week or something with him in it. So, for me, selfishly, it’s for my own personal documenting [of] his life. </i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://open.spotify.com/episode/6HSYxK3sj3Oa0qOchUg80N"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Have Our Feelings Changed? (S4E15)</b></span></a> from Rose and Rosie: Parental Guidance</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Rose and Rosie keep it real. Yes, they share their relationship and family life online. Yes, we form attachments to them as a couple. Yes, our joy comes from seeing their love. But the couple seem to handle the parasocial attachments that viewers form to them pretty well, and, while they do ‘overshare’, they know what they need to keep back. They’ve navigated ten successful years together, and I’m sure that there’ll be many more happy ones to come.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">But what happens when you can’t manage it? What happens when parasociabiliity has the capability to ruin your relationship, which you’ve set at its hands?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt8kj51ioUv-eQM6_YqGu2MN-UXm0-HqB4ivm01YzyXbGEPF-Uc6FPbFnCA5vUiX9tpBR_vIcw5bYGWqq3x7UjgJB2QTrCifzC8Zj3HIv9ODofnz8fAMYeGeO2gglW-Fsu1wp_ogC7mIjZOV9bZ0o7OtOxPDYK5A_Hu8_Xhxp2D2znAOfRGCL3QSMr/s640/ab6765630000ba8aff9f4a209e052124b42fbb2e.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="640" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjt8kj51ioUv-eQM6_YqGu2MN-UXm0-HqB4ivm01YzyXbGEPF-Uc6FPbFnCA5vUiX9tpBR_vIcw5bYGWqq3x7UjgJB2QTrCifzC8Zj3HIv9ODofnz8fAMYeGeO2gglW-Fsu1wp_ogC7mIjZOV9bZ0o7OtOxPDYK5A_Hu8_Xhxp2D2znAOfRGCL3QSMr/w400-h400/ab6765630000ba8aff9f4a209e052124b42fbb2e.jpeg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image Credit: Spotify</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">This is something that’s been spoken about by a number of YouTube couples - some who have survived vlogging their relationships, like Rose and Rosie, and some who haven’t. Ben Hunte, <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-43034142"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Newsbeat journalist</b></span></a> and <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p05vvcxc"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>documentary-maker on this very subject</b></span></a>, and his ex-boyfriend Jack, broke up after financial pressures on their relationship sucked the fun out of their couples vlogging. After they announced their break-up, the fans were devastated - to the extent that they even received death threats if they didn’t rekindle their relationship. Other couples, like Lorenzo and Pedro, actually disappeared from YouTube rather than reveal that they’d broken up for fear of the fallout. The personal becomes public property, and that isn’t always easy, understandably leading to big problems that relationships can’t overcome.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Many YouTube couples who previously ‘made it’ have broken up, and many cited the pressures of having an online relationship as part of the reason. <a href="https://youtu.be/l0KazRqIJ9U"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Jesse Wellens and Jennifer Smith</b></span></a>, owners of the popular couples' channel, BFvsGF, stated that daily vlogging and the constant availability of their relationship on the internet led to its breakdown. These breakups were often seen as coming out of nowhere, too - since no one’s going to air their dirty laundry on the internet, and we can never really get the full picture. Couples like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/MarkEMiller"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Mark E Miller</b></span></a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/user/ehethcote"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Ethan Heathcote</b></span></a>, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/lizakoshy"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Liza Koshy</b></span></a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidDobrik"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>David Dobrik</b></span></a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/jimchapman"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Jim Chapman</b></span></a> and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/tanyaburr"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Tanya Burr</b></span></a>, were never expected to break up. But they did. And it would be naive to suggest that the impact of internet scrutiny didn’t influence those break ups. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Clearly, online relationships are difficult. It takes a very strong couple to survive the scrutiny, and Rose and Rosie are an example of that. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Love is wonderful. Love online? A risky business. But when you have a love as strong as this little frog family have for each other? Anything is possible. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8CjH3Ss_cuOFScymQIrWFgQLtNvt8AMHNdPagXaCIoJVkLic00JuJ0glctstbQzVdcvhrIlcT0JIpwD1tvh2F38LEwzzDLnt_ZPGAvBiEdQ-qvsYKr9IFJPYGAVn-QPQtbIVg7k2KMBLSVsiggus_iP3KGaUgojtaTRFeseYnAjXAa6mFdkcnRQ7I/s1118/Screenshot%202022-09-01%20at%2012.32.10.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1118" data-original-width="818" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8CjH3Ss_cuOFScymQIrWFgQLtNvt8AMHNdPagXaCIoJVkLic00JuJ0glctstbQzVdcvhrIlcT0JIpwD1tvh2F38LEwzzDLnt_ZPGAvBiEdQ-qvsYKr9IFJPYGAVn-QPQtbIVg7k2KMBLSVsiggus_iP3KGaUgojtaTRFeseYnAjXAa6mFdkcnRQ7I/w293-h400/Screenshot%202022-09-01%20at%2012.32.10.png" width="293" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image Credit: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/roseellendix/?hl=en"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>@roseellendix</b></span></a> (Instagram)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="font-family: inherit;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Anna Coopey</span></i></b></div><div style="font-family: inherit;">4th-year undergraduate student in Classics at The University of St Andrews in Scotland. Keen writer and researcher on a number of topics, varying from Modern Greek literature to revolutionary theory. </div><div style="font-family: inherit;">Twitter: <b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="https://twitter.com/anna_coopey" target="_blank">@anna_coopey</a></span></b> </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Works Cited</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rose and Rosie (YouTube Channel) - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/RoseAndRosie">https://www.youtube.com/c/RoseAndRosie</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rose and Rosie Vlogs (YouTube Channel) - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/RoseAndRosieVlogs">https://www.youtube.com/c/RoseAndRosieVlogs</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What Wegan Did Next - <a href="https://www.whatwegandidnext.com/p/about-wegan.html">https://www.whatwegandidnext.com/p/about-wegan.html</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Kaelyn and Lucy (YouTube Channel) - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/kaelynandlucy/featured">https://www.youtube.com/c/kaelynandlucy/featured</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">A Woman Named Rose Married A Woman Named Rosie And Their Wedding Was Perfect (Huffington Post) - <a href="https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/03/25/rose-and-rosie-wedding-youtube_n_6938388.html">https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/03/25/rose-and-rosie-wedding-youtube_n_6938388.html</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rose and Rosie: Overshare (Amazon Prime) - <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rose-Rosie-Overshare-Ellen-Dix/dp/B07VLJPCJW">https://www.amazon.co.uk/Rose-Rosie-Overshare-Ellen-Dix/dp/B07VLJPCJW</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rose and Rosie: Parental Guidance (Spotify) - <a href="https://open.spotify.com/show/667zSZZjcHnm2cs5KWyyZ3">https://open.spotify.com/show/667zSZZjcHnm2cs5KWyyZ3</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Let’s Play Games (YouTube Channel) - <a href="https://www.youtube.com/c/LetsPlayGamesWithoutSkills">https://www.youtube.com/c/LetsPlayGamesWithoutSkills</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rose and Rosie: ‘We Don’t Really Have A Filter’ (The Guardian) - <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/apr/18/rose-and-rosie-youtube-stars-interview-rose-ellen-dix-rosie-spaughton">https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/apr/18/rose-and-rosie-youtube-stars-interview-rose-ellen-dix-rosie-spaughton</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Did Couple Vlogging On YouTube Ruin My Relationship? (BBC Newsbeat) - <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-43034142%E2%80%AF">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/newsbeat-43034142 </a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">How Couples YouTube Channels Forge ‘Friendships’ With Their Viewers: A Thematic Textual Analysis (California State University) - <a href="https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2509&context=etd">https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2509&context=etd</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Why Do People Enjoy Reality TV? (Everyday Psych) - <a href="https://everydaypsych.com/why-do-people-enjoy-reality-tv/">https://everydaypsych.com/why-do-people-enjoy-reality-tv/</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Why We Can’t Stop Peeking Into Other People’s Lives? (BBC) - <a href="https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210302-why-we-cant-stop-peeking-into-other-peoples-lives">https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20210302-why-we-cant-stop-peeking-into-other-peoples-lives</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Why People Watch Reality TV (Ohio State University) - <a href="http://www.uky.edu/~dlowe2/documents/3.ReissandWiltz2004RealityTV.pdf">http://www.uky.edu/~dlowe2/documents/3.ReissandWiltz2004RealityTV.pdf</a></span></div>Anna Coopeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12617339904914819703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812126921403364241.post-34995128083651977422022-08-18T07:01:00.003+00:002022-09-22T00:44:31.127+00:00In Conversation with my Trans School Bus Driver: Social Media’s Strengths and Shortcomings <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A look into the trans community and social media. Inspired by a conversation with Tazmin, my primary school bus driver. </span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3KQ7JPhvWRA42CR-zd4D6a3-hoXQV6SKPmZ_QpeHcTJfGEGPPnrpTdoJMyCxc2aZtXtU-BVE3MIVeVhCisF3MrvWscWGAGZMwQdhNg-SbNST5Fo9KSDhu7ft8TWqTgU2VSpKouCdMOdJU6vnLiOL4Fona7V2b6eCzObMNmyHVLGEAr7ZwKplmmvqwIQ/s650/trans%20cover%20picture%20.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="650" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3KQ7JPhvWRA42CR-zd4D6a3-hoXQV6SKPmZ_QpeHcTJfGEGPPnrpTdoJMyCxc2aZtXtU-BVE3MIVeVhCisF3MrvWscWGAGZMwQdhNg-SbNST5Fo9KSDhu7ft8TWqTgU2VSpKouCdMOdJU6vnLiOL4Fona7V2b6eCzObMNmyHVLGEAr7ZwKplmmvqwIQ/w400-h224/trans%20cover%20picture%20.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/transgender-facebook-content-dominated-right-wing-sources-study-finds-n1234252" style="color: #954f72; text-align: start;">nbcnews.org</a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Without social media, <b>how many individuals would still feel like an outcast in their own bodies?</b> Credited with its ability to provide a platform for a community of </span><a href="https://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/what-is-transgender" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">transgender</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> voices, social media is an essential device for the trans community. Yet, Tazmin and I discussed the ways in which social media has been <b>both a blessing and a curse for the trans community. </b></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">After 3 and a half hours of conversation, and six cups of coffee consumed between the two of us, we spoke about the innumerable experiences that accompanied becoming transgender within a rural Welsh community. With the occasional feature of elderly mutterings and wailing babies in the background, <b>she kindly detailed her journey of self-discovery, both offline and online. </b></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tazmin recalled her school days with disappointment, as she expressed how the education system failed to highlight the internet’s boundaries, <b>but also its considerable potential for spreading goodness.</b> At the beginning of the interview, Tazmin took us back to the emergence of the printing press. This was the essential prerequisite for the ‘whirlwind of social evolution’ that has taken no rest day since its establishment in the 15th Century. Tazmin not only views social media as impacting the <i>‘socioeconomic infrastructure’</i> of lives internationally but also on a much more personal level. </span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: inherit;"><b>“You feel less alone knowing that there are others like you” </b></i></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Despite its drawbacks, Tazmin credits the internet for its ability to connect likeminded individuals from across the globe: <i><b>“If it wasn’t for the internet, I would have never known that there are people out there who felt exactly the same as me.”</b></i> To this day, Tazmin uses Facebook as a virtual diary, with refreshingly honest posts that detail her best days, as well as her very worst days. As an admin for Facebook group ‘Tranarchy 2’, social media has acted as the crucial enabler for Tazmin to virtually connect with thousands of likeminded individuals and share her personal narrative. </span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Social media is certainly a vital facilitator for self-expression within the trans community. With </span><a href="https://innovativepublichealth.org/blog/the-influence-of-social-media-for-trans-youth/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">75%</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> of trans youth feeling unsafe at school, it provides the global youth with an opportunity to <b>express themselves freely within a bursting online community of affirmative voices.</b> Organisations like the<b><span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span></b></span><a href="https://www.media-diversity.org/how-social-media-has-become-an-essential-support-network-for-trans-and-non-binary-people-around-the-world/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Queer, Transgender and Intersex Coalition of Colour</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> have used WhatsApp as the essential device for coordinating their work, as well as a means to provide <i>“emotional support and intellectual stimulation.”</i> </span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-size: large; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyFHw0eHuRZ6lQUMAr9IHZ8X56DWppjdJIEBKppxVZdvXm_sjtoeJcMPRStdb8XPawkFoPpQE6fSBpcKP60Uh6KnmcVG3xwVljDi5Rh0g0UUmhgiruBqzCuKzQLnXjeposhy3N7mJ-NUtMKGrJFVptb6ng7TXYJcU7wYVWL5t8J_EjHixqJY5wRs5Z9w/s392/coalition%20emblem%20.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="392" data-original-width="392" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyFHw0eHuRZ6lQUMAr9IHZ8X56DWppjdJIEBKppxVZdvXm_sjtoeJcMPRStdb8XPawkFoPpQE6fSBpcKP60Uh6KnmcVG3xwVljDi5Rh0g0UUmhgiruBqzCuKzQLnXjeposhy3N7mJ-NUtMKGrJFVptb6ng7TXYJcU7wYVWL5t8J_EjHixqJY5wRs5Z9w/w247-h247/coalition%20emblem%20.jpg" width="247" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: QTI Coalition of Colour logo <span style="text-align: start;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCn5p4wSrxl1jW0x1L5xMQhQ" style="color: #954f72;">youtube.com</a></span></span><span style="text-align: start;"></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Similarly, in the midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic, a Facebook group called </span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TransActionGA/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Trans Georgia</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> set their sights on providing minimal disaster relief for the trans community, <b>raising money to cover rent bills for many trans individuals struggling financially due to the pandemic. </b></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">While the power of social media certainly cannot be understated, it does have a natural propensity to attract individuals that are not as interested in filling social media with messages centred around social inclusion and individual empowerment. Despite her many positive experiences with social media, Tazmin told me the reason as to why her Facebook group was called ‘Tranarchy 2’: <b>the previous two tranarchy groups were shut down due to toxic infiltrations from unwanted transphobic incel trolls. </b></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Moreover, Tazmin told me of the Facebook accounts that messaged her as she began to experiment with her style and <b><i>“became more feminine with each passing month.”</i> </b></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">During these years, Tazmin was contacted by fake Facebook accounts seemingly belonging to children. As Tazmin was a well-known bus driver in the local area, what started off as a simple message to ask when the next bus to town was soon became much more sinister: <b>these fake accounts would go on to make the conversation explicitly sexual.</b> On five separate occasions, Tazmin had to report this vile form of abuse to the local authorities. As anyone would be, she was horrified by the gross assumption the individuals behind these fake accounts had made about her, purely based off her changing identity. </span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This form of abuse does not end with the termination of five or six Facebook accounts. The memory does not go away. As Tazmin herself told me: <i><b>“The thought still makes me sick to this day”</b></i>, as these individuals made such a vile judgment on someone purely based on the expressive alteration of their physical appearance. </span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Unfortunately, the LGBTQ+ community has been faced with the spread of extreme disinformation about their chosen causes to support.</b> In fact, LGBTQ+ people have increasingly been wrongly associated with </span><a href="https://www.stopitnow.org.uk/concerned-about-your-own-thoughts-or-behaviour/help-with-inappropriate-thoughts-or-behaviour/get-the-facts/understanding-the-terminology/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">paedophilia</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. In 2021, as a part of his new bill to tackle paedophilia, Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán also proposed to limit content related to transgender people and homosexuality. </span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 2017, rumours started to circulate that the letter ‘P’, representing </span><a href="https://www.lgbt.foundation/pedosexual" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">‘<b><span style="color: #674ea7;">pedosexuals</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">’, was to be added to the LGBTQ+ acronym. A spokesperson for </span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-lgbtq-community-p-acronym-idUSKBN2352J8" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">GLAAD</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> reported how it pains them “</span><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-lgbtq-community-p-acronym-idUSKBN2352J8" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><i>to have to clarify that no, the LGBTQ community does not embrace pedophilia, and LGBTP is not an acronym used or supported by the LGBTQ community</i></span></b>.” </a></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">While online transgender abuse overall is certainly not lacking, it seems that<b> anti-transgender online communities can also fester on smaller social media platforms.</b> In 2017, </span><a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lgbtp-adding-letter/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">a 4chan misinformation campaign</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> created a fraudulent poster showing the incorrect acronym ‘LGBTP’. The multiple ideas for the poster were posted within a thread on 4chan, </span><a href="https://4archive.org/board/b/thread/691172252" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">as started by this individual post:</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;">Alright you f****** morons. </span></span></div> <div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You're letting the LBGTQ "community" outsmart you. </span></div></span> </span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">If they want to demand that society accept their horseshit identities, then it's time we slip in one of our own, for godly keks. </span></div></span> </span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How do we do this? </span></div></span> </span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We convince them that Pedos deserve rights too. </span></div></span> </span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Think about it, if this were to catch any traction at all it would only further remove any legitimization they've gained. </span></div></span> </span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: medium;">Discuss. </span></span></div></span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">While these rumours have since been shut down, <b>sites such as 4chan and 8kun remain largely unregulated.</b> As 4chan is used by over </span><a href="https://www.getsignal.info/blog/4chan-for-security-intelligence" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">27 million people</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, anonymous users on an international scale are free to spread hateful disinformation, often never having to face the consequences. </span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRG416xYe0ZwzIXGJcKR4C48Pph6jJHnGCPiS0cmxarPUONHZQ2GpJaKa3ApEFfSdZhT2CnDBLZfPOTxNIv6-2i3y1LfyBNvnR6rghbi6S02H0QALtQrEoRQGjKEPFAbpFmVDeUINgcwmHUiaClD3C_70E_e6tWGpehic_r3JAdCZsK1OJ7nehQDvGww/s986/TP%20across%20different%20sites%20.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="495" data-original-width="986" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRG416xYe0ZwzIXGJcKR4C48Pph6jJHnGCPiS0cmxarPUONHZQ2GpJaKa3ApEFfSdZhT2CnDBLZfPOTxNIv6-2i3y1LfyBNvnR6rghbi6S02H0QALtQrEoRQGjKEPFAbpFmVDeUINgcwmHUiaClD3C_70E_e6tWGpehic_r3JAdCZsK1OJ7nehQDvGww/w418-h210/TP%20across%20different%20sites%20.png" width="418" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Source: comparing transphobia across different sites <span style="text-align: start;"><a href="https://www.brandwatch.com/reports/transphobia/" style="color: #954f72;">brandwatch.com</a></span></span><span style="text-align: start;"></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the government page explaining the proposal for an </span><a href="https://www.socialsongbird.com/2022/08/the-online-safety-bill-can-safety-be.html" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Online Safety Bill in the UK</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, which has been put on hold until Conservative members choose a new prime minister, there seems to be no mention of smaller less regulated social media sites. <b>As argued by Alex Davies-Jones, the Shadow Minister for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, the bill largely overlooks smaller websites.</b> However, as these individuals are removed from larger social media sites, they instead migrate to other platforms that are considerably less regulated. As these platforms eventually become more regulated, users will just take their anti-LGBTQ+ content elsewhere. </span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">During our interview, Tazmin and I discussed the ways in which <b>JK Rowling’s offensive online contributions regarding trans rights has affected the social media sphere.</b> It's true, JK Rowling has certainly been reprimanded by the online community for her reductionist commentary. She spoke of her </span><a href="https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">strained relationship with her father:</span></b></a></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>“I struggled with severe OCD as a teenager. If I'd found community and sympathy online that I couldn't find in my immediate environment, I believe I could have been persuaded to turn myself into the son my father had openly said he'd have preferred.” </i></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Clearly, Rowling is guilty of extreme simplification.</b> As Tazmin explained to me, her decision to transition was not based on a whim, neither was she persuaded by others. While nobody deserves to receive death threats, as Rowling received many, online anti-transgender rhetoric has caused </span><a href="https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/17/ilga-europe-jk-rowling-anti-trans-rhetoric-annual-review-transphobia-uk/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank">“<b><span style="color: #674ea7;">significant damage</span></b>”</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. An international LGBTQ+ review by </span><a href="https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/17/ilga-europe-jk-rowling-anti-trans-rhetoric-annual-review-transphobia-uk/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">ILGA-Europe</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span></b>has noted a steady increase in hate crimes against transgender individuals. </span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On an international level, on both larger and smaller online platforms, <b>online transphobic abuse is widespread.</b> Out of the 10 million transgender-related comments on social media platforms between 2016 and 2019, </span><a href="https://www.brandwatch.com/reports/transphobia/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">1.5 million</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> were transphobic. </span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfj5K2JLEHil9Y8t_sc-UaR7OCLlP5qbRJ0wNRiBWj-Ba7jy5oOdThUb3ey78qth0s8xcnkjsk_AYm4THZYyJ0Xvx84bWyF7VQsTYkhw2E9WXB6sAkJSV8cYPwRzZl0S-GnVrINuSOsEGP6XqFM7oPV_4IgPvocZctf3UABP39-A5K6KqPYd-WFwBM1g/s959/trans%20abuse%20common%20themes%20.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="522" data-original-width="959" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgfj5K2JLEHil9Y8t_sc-UaR7OCLlP5qbRJ0wNRiBWj-Ba7jy5oOdThUb3ey78qth0s8xcnkjsk_AYm4THZYyJ0Xvx84bWyF7VQsTYkhw2E9WXB6sAkJSV8cYPwRzZl0S-GnVrINuSOsEGP6XqFM7oPV_4IgPvocZctf3UABP39-A5K6KqPYd-WFwBM1g/w400-h217/trans%20abuse%20common%20themes%20.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Source: transphobic abuse, the most common themes <span style="text-align: start;"><a href="https://www.brandwatch.com/reports/transphobia/" style="color: #954f72;">brandwatch.com</a></span><span style="text-align: start;"></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">However, while social media has in many ways hindered the trans community, transphobic abuse pales in comparison to what it has enabled them to achieve overall. <b>Social media has provided the trans community with communication links that were certainly not accessible in the 90s, and it has made all the difference. </b></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Both <b>national and international camaraderie</b> is prevalent across the online platforms, inspiring young and old alike to embrace their true identities. As Tazmin told me, <i><b>“having a healthy support network is essential.”</b></i> We must ensure that </span><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigotry" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">bigotry</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> will never possess enough power to drown out the incredible voices that are permeated throughout the trans community. </span></div><br /><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span></i><div><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span></i></div><div><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Lucy Thomas </span></i><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Lucy is an undergraduate BSc Politics and International Relations student at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests include social stratification and international political theory.</div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Linkedin: <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-thomas-b598ab200/" target="_blank">/in/lucy-thomas</a></div><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /><br /></span></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>Sources: </div><div><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/what-is-transgender">https://www.webmd.com/sex-relationships/what-is-transgender</a> <br /><a href="https://innovativepublichealth.org/blog/the-influence-of-social-media-for-trans-youth/">https://innovativepublichealth.org/blog/the-influence-of-social-media-for-trans-youth/</a> <br /><a href="https://www.media-diversity.org/how-social-media-has-become-an-essential-support-network-for-trans-and-non-binary-people-around-the-world/">https://www.media-diversity.org/how-social-media-has-become-an-essential-support-network-for-trans-and-non-binary-people-around-the-world/</a> <br /><a href="https://www.facebook.com/TransActionGA/">https://www.facebook.com/TransActionGA/</a> <br /><a href="https://www.stopitnow.org.uk/concerned-about-your-own-thoughts-or-behaviour/help-with-inappropriate-thoughts-or-behaviour/get-the-facts/understanding-the-terminology/">https://www.stopitnow.org.uk/concerned-about-your-own-thoughts-or-behaviour/help-with-inappropriate-thoughts-or-behaviour/get-the-facts/understanding-the-terminology/</a> <br /><a href="https://www.lgbt.foundation/pedosexual">https://www.lgbt.foundation/pedosexual</a> <br /><a href="https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-lgbtq-community-p-acronym-idUSKBN2352J8">https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-lgbtq-community-p-acronym-idUSKBN2352J8</a> <br /><a href="https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lgbtp-adding-letter/">https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lgbtp-adding-letter/</a> <br /><a href="https://4archive.org/board/b/thread/691172252">https://4archive.org/board/b/thread/691172252</a> <br /><a href="https://www.socialsongbird.com/2022/08/the-online-safety-bill-can-safety-be.html">https://www.socialsongbird.com/2022/08/the-online-safety-bill-can-safety-be.html</a> <br /><a href="https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/">https://www.jkrowling.com/opinions/j-k-rowling-writes-about-her-reasons-for-speaking-out-on-sex-and-gender-issues/</a> <br /><a href="https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/17/ilga-europe-jk-rowling-anti-trans-rhetoric-annual-review-transphobia-uk/">https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2021/02/17/ilga-europe-jk-rowling-anti-trans-rhetoric-annual-review-transphobia-uk/</a> <br /><a href="https://www.brandwatch.com/reports/transphobia/">https://www.brandwatch.com/reports/transphobia/</a> <br /><a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigotry">https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bigotry</a> <br /></span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> <div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW152521310 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="210" data-original-width="375" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGluHv8HVrYMOIpP77_LfM_IOeofGvZilO7bQC9L6dr3avBr8vbiHvma2fXxk6hjpOHIWNNVCk-CIOdG57FmGd25VwqgK9jJ5JcKmcaO0_m7rI-Rmmtvds_mhEqjb90h6jWThD8dueXIUuNTu8wieEfketx3Fm7AH65XeBXMih4rPJOcdOsHZciUEo/s320/rish%20liz.webp" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Image Credit: <a href="https://www.theweek.co.uk/rishi-sunak/957637/how-would-liz-truss-and-rishi-sunak-tackle-soaring-energy-bills">The Week</a></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Boris Johnson resigned. After months of scandal, days of denials, and one confidence vote (</span><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-12/labour-to-table-vote-of-confidence-in-boris-johnson-s-government" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>with more threatened</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">), he finally threw in the towel, and then the hounds closed into vye for a spot as his successor. Stars rose and fell as Penny Mordaunt and Nadhim Zahawi were nipped off at the finish line, and now here they stand, Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss, at the finish line, waiting for that fateful September day when one of them will step forward and become the UK’s next Prime Minister. It sounds like it should be a dignified and respectful race between colleagues, considering their history of working in Boris Johnson’s government together, and the fact that both of these figures are experienced politicians and intelligent adults. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Well, it’s not. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-family: inherit;">While on the surface the leadership race may look like a clean set of debates, when we dig into social media, it becomes more suspect.</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> When we push past the official social media accounts, too, it gets even nastier. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let’s take a look.</span></div></span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">—</span></div><br /><b><br /></b><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>It’s been well-documented that social media can influence politics.</b> On this website, </span><a href="https://www.socialsongbird.com/2022/07/when-nano-and-micro-social-media.html" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Lucy Thomas</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> has looked at the political impact that influencers can have on Instagram, while </span><a href="https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/articles/the-past-decade-and-future-of-political-media-the-ascendance-of-social-media/" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Diana Owen</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> from Georgetown University has looked at the effect of social media in Donald Trump’s election and misinformation during his presidency. Looking into Rishi Sunak’s social media campaign, we can see that politicians are well aware of this. </span></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A year ago, Sunak hired </span><a href="https://twitter.com/CassHorowitz" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Cass Horowitz</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">, the son of famed children’s author </span><a href="https://twitter.com/AnthonyHorowitz" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Anthony Horowitz</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">, and a social media expert. While the timeline may make us suspicious - along with the polished videos and posts that came out in Sunak’s campaign just twenty-four hours after Boris Johnson’s resignation - this clearly speaks to a coordinated social media effort, and the evidence is right there on Sunak’s Twitter account. With the slick slogan Ready For Rishi, hashtagged and imposed upon all of his video clips from debates, it’s clean, composed, and clear. It’s professional.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1558352144352305152" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1088" data-original-width="880" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9BOYwrpxiclH670FhsXbhKMMs6SVvwGAWg0Vkt4gz_9GDabpME__A5fzOY3fqlOs33s2MbGBJ4noLMH0l54jsh_s8b2oL51gcZLvhpOunzGPajx1o_7DsMA9_2FkWtg8xa6Wu8En7OEcuUaWZnEWPrRUuBxtkdVGV0qYuAIBPViXPBUxrVITQ5oO9/w324-h400/Screenshot%202022-08-17%20at%2020.01.53.png" width="324" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/RishiSunak/status/1558352144352305152" target="_blank"><br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It’s the unofficial bits that get a lot worse.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>Sunak’s official hashtag is </span><a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ReadyForRishi?src=hashtag_click"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>#ReadyForRishi</b></span></a><span> (or </span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23Ready4Rishi&src=typed_query&f=top"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>#Ready4Rishi</b></span></a><span>), and most of his campaign tweets are set out with that slogan, or a link to his website with the same name. His supporters have taken up the same hashtag, understandably, but they seem to have added some other slogans - and these slogans are pretty cruel about the other side. <b>Forget polite debate: Liz Truss should never be Prime Minister (</b></span><b><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23NeverTruss&src=typeahead_click&f=top"><span style="color: #674ea7;">#NeverTruss</span></a><span>), and Nadine Dorries is insane (</span><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23MadNads&src=typed_query&f=top"><span style="color: #674ea7;">#MadNads</span></a><span>), with her allyship only confirming the assertions about Truss.</span></b></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ryglobal/status/1554206304444596224" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="870" data-original-width="892" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxurlxSVtMMRUkp3bqYd1exs8dGLz2QmUWSjFzI4aXYjB-6uKdbi5-FAWpZElV0bc3vfqzbzON6Nj6V70ZH0qqs7bfL8OwnvnpJU0kxrm7bZ1Bd_mN9EBbOWHwhnnZNQqoeDGg1ru92iwiG8hFlBdDdaF5aD74bnVYAu8Og1sdbI3CY4P8_OTLryvi/w400-h390/Screenshot%202022-08-17%20at%2020.03.27.png" width="400" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ryglobal/status/1554206304444596224" target="_blank"><br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">And that’s not all. Under the same hashtag, ‘Lizz’ (sic) ‘lacks the courage and intelligence’ to face up against Nicola Sturgeon on the issue of Scottish independence, while ‘Rishi’ is ‘assertive’, and won’t ‘shy away’ from confrontation. </span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Leenast9/status/1554205591966552079" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1004" data-original-width="890" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgH_cey0UmS6isQ5onHvSuWZY0i5Z7-vX4Usxi0jXmS5JVLAgcUMRqDUZz4W1-yN5KZzSZAGTkKEE7ahG6f0ItU6tMK3RvkEK5nY8MdomyLvqTG1abqYdRz5SOrdHRGpALN-3GyWCoV6HuDLoitp9cwFfaQNMMo9g0JNnmjDrhWjwkfNfOEEryMoRZ0/w355-h400/Screenshot%202022-08-17%20at%2020.04.38.png" width="355" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">And it only continues. </span><a href="https://twitter.com/Coconutinbahama" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>@Coconutinbahama</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> writes that Rishi Sunak should be the next PM because he’s ‘the only one that has a support package for the majority’. Truss, however, ‘said sod all’ in their debate, and ‘waffled’. </span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Coconutinbahama/status/1555284444805840896" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="432" data-original-width="884" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgOyIV-ai09RGMYdWpjqnfnfZV81VLvP1AzROSHA1XwEXvDUXVevBjuITjO0SlikPFKcPFQcXdhNpPaxxA7lp-Zy6mikzPek5MdN4C-sxcVov0PvqCefjk_4Q1qzgKuUM9NZx1QRNvSCJhBA9LVJEuXTeJ8FObR6N5fyMotM_0Ls47gIM9a30QecAYo/w400-h195/Screenshot%202022-08-17%20at%2020.05.52.png" width="400" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/Coconutinbahama/status/1555284444805840896" target="_blank"><br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Now, surely something’s wrong here. Of course, <b>Rishi Sunak can’t be blamed for the behaviour of his supporters under his hashtag, but there’s some really damaging and personally negative stuff under his slogans, which make it seem like he’s implicitly approving it.</b> If someone can offset nasty, personal criticism with your snazzy slogan as a gesture of support, that’s a problem, right? Especially when you’re advocating respectful debate? Surely you should be reining your supporters in? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">But what if Sunak doesn’t want to do that? And what if his campaign team are counting on the sorts of things we see under the hashtags to feed their fire?</span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://twitter.com/RoxetteB881/status/1556958098337808384" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1276" data-original-width="584" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgru7Cd5xKERWjwtLeReHfP8nx90KCg5ttPx1HbkfTmYEFhr4LrpRvG1Pw7eLEyXb0POks7CsK1nOoltmdavxoVDDxgcg7ZW_fNrau_aPVGwDdNlrVxIof1EFQhXfJ1wEXDAf_QJDaPpha9Q72fZzV55nSjmyGT4mTqDuDPIjnlg0pgewobVxDxpzQE/w183-h400/Screenshot%202022-08-17%20at%2020.06.59.png" width="183" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">It isn’t just Sunak who’s guilty of this either. <b>Liz Truss’ Twitter hashtags also house a lot of personal negative sniping at Sunak</b>, from calling him a snake (with liberal use of emojis), to comparing him to the Brutus who stabbed Julius Caesar in the back in Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar. Once again, we see personalised, nasty attacks under official campaign slogans – and once again we must ask, is Truss’ social media campaign counting on this unofficial electioneering? By letting this stuff be posted under her official hashtags, is Truss implicitly approving it?</span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ColinDyckes/status/1557591122196799488" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="1030" data-original-width="594" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicog4vkceVhQq1U_z8q7fzvA5IAPwjunNnJkImccIRDXEFwPCODzUDgejuQRKDFh6oia3vch_B67mJpGEq1DD18Ev1LqOwSylh2HAMidH4Sgwr4fzLsALXkNXdmwQdoAG_uavKI7XATtBCC9cntTGYkPwPVrW88c5m168dW7JkmuOoomuLfKR8jFUn/w231-h400/Screenshot%202022-08-17%20at%2020.08.19.png" width="231" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://twitter.com/ColinDyckes/status/1557591122196799488" target="_blank"><br /></a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Curious about this, I decided to look into the similar tactics used in the Trump-Clinton Presidential race in 2016. <b>It’s been pretty decisively proven that Trump used Twitter bots for his victory in the Presidential race</b> - although he has denied that he actively colluded with the Russian hackers who deployed them. The National Bureau of Economic Research actually concluded in a research paper (2018) that </span><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-21/twitter-bots-helped-trump-and-brexit-win-economic-study-says" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Twitter bots might have boosted Trump’s share of the vote by as much as 3.23%</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">. </span></div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And it wasn’t just bots that contributed to Trump’s victory. Both </span><a href="https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/news/how-twitter-helped-trump-win-the-us-elections/" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Royal Holloway</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> and the </span><a href="https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0894439317730302" style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Social Science Computer Review</b></span></a><span style="font-size: medium;"> have found that <b>free media - i.e. regular social media users - had a huge impact on Trump winning the election.</b> Their use and promotion of official campaign hashtags, like #MakeAmericaGreatAgain, #MAGA, and #Trump2016, led to an increase in Trump’s presence online, which then led to further dissemination of his message, and his election. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><a href="https://twitter.com/iwsceo/status/795769170227064833" target="_blank"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="886" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5cNxFPCES_XAU77ceCTXwXcRyATW5lZr1fq5lJtvZ7cRrfEkyp8rhEb12hSTG6TTT3HG_3d19tVUDGep1jL8JefZ34f5Pct2-1DFhAyf-fEhmKVNkY6oR4f3tVfJimvp5jeuqQFPPaQ__zDAGk__HK8hdsbxOteabc8tK1GxYWt5XC6dBF1IxQxBW/w368-h400/Screenshot%202022-08-17%20at%2020.10.43.png" width="368" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">And I think this is where we need to ask a question: <b>how far is this appropriate?</b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Of course, free speech is important</b> and is something that thousands of people have fought for over centuries - including Salman Rushdie, author and activist, who was recently attacked on stage at an event after years of threats for his work. All of us have the right to express our opinions, and all of us can (although the expression of certain opinions does not come without consequences).</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But, on a platform like Twitter, we find a bit of a problem when it comes to politics. When regular people are able to use an official campaign hashtag and place their own views alongside official campaign material from official accounts, that implies that their personal viewpoints are on the same level as official campaign tweets. And when those opinions agree with the official campaign tweets but add hateful language and sentiments, it implies that the campaign agrees with these, too.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So the question is, then, <b>should official campaign hashtags on Twitter be allowed to be used by anyone? </b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">—</span></div><br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Let’s do a little thought experiment. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let’s imagine, for a second, that the internet doesn’t exist. Let’s imagine that the only way in which you can access an electoral candidate’s manifesto is through a huge book, held in a building somewhere, which holds everything in it. If you want to picture it, imagine a lectern, the type of thing you find in an old church, with the book in the middle, for all to access.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Imagine that this is the only way in which you can access this candidate’s manifesto. The other candidates have these books too. Once again, this is the only way you can access these manifestoes. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Would we let anyone come in and scribble over the pages? </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">No. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So why do we let that happen with official Twitter hashtags? Why do we let this new platform for political campaigning be invaded by unofficial voices? <b>Why do we let tweets that slip derogatory and negative language into political debate sit alongside discussions about economic reform and political posturing with equal merit? </b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Free speech is important. That’s undeniable. But when it comes to anyone intruding on official campaign rhetoric? Sometimes, that’s problematic - and it has politicians like Rishi Sunak and Liz Truss benefitting from what is just plain nastiness. The nastiness that their sides have not condemned, and encourage by their silence.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><br /><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Anna Coopey</span></i></b></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">4th-year undergraduate student in Classics at The University of St Andrews in Scotland. Keen writer and researcher on a number of topics, varying from Modern Greek literature to revolutionary theory. </div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Twitter: <b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="https://twitter.com/anna_coopey" target="_blank">@anna_coopey</a></span></b> </div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Works Cited:<br /></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;">When Nano and Micro Social Media Influencers Mix With Politics (Social Songbird) - <a href="#">https://www.socialsongbird.com/2022/07/when-nano-and-micro-social-media.html</a><br />The Past Decade and Future of Political Media: The Ascendance of Social Media (OpenMind BBVA) - <a href="#">https://www.bbvaopenmind.com/en/articles/the-past-decade-and-future-of-political-media-the-ascendance-of-social-media/</a><br />Twitter Bots Helped Trump And Brexit Win, Economic Study Says (Bloomberg UK) - <a href="#">https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-21/twitter-bots-helped-trump-and-brexit-win-economic-study-says</a><br />How Twitter Helped Trump Win The US Elections (Royal Holloway University Of London) - <a href="#">https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/about-us/news/how-twitter-helped-trump-win-the-us-elections/</a><br />Free Media And Twitter In The 2016 Presidential Election: The Unconventional Campaign of Donald Trump (Social Science Computer Review) - <a href="#">https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0894439317730302</a><br />Political Hashtag Trends: The Role of Political Hashtags to Influence People’s Mindset (Political Marketer) - <a href="#">https://politicalmarketer.com/political-hashtag-trends/</a></span></div>Anna Coopeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12617339904914819703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812126921403364241.post-42377240066045523282022-08-11T21:12:00.021+00:002022-09-06T17:54:53.692+00:00Are NFTs Killing Art?<div style="text-align: center;"></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW9PoEenRP3bgA5tixQqe-ytCEFSwadorSeLWrSmyPzKKDXSVpVXf3BPlqWrZmHgssBqr-ns5Kz9GHASlr1KYFsttS8Ht7BGx8Ug4LpTb03DWryxO13RLVCqHetfV1S_EG53wfbLX7NZ9woXVvUNyLd2YARedpRNjM9bVaaL_WqTb9pBbhCrqfKYcz/s6720/pexels%20art.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4480" data-original-width="6720" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiW9PoEenRP3bgA5tixQqe-ytCEFSwadorSeLWrSmyPzKKDXSVpVXf3BPlqWrZmHgssBqr-ns5Kz9GHASlr1KYFsttS8Ht7BGx8Ug4LpTb03DWryxO13RLVCqHetfV1S_EG53wfbLX7NZ9woXVvUNyLd2YARedpRNjM9bVaaL_WqTb9pBbhCrqfKYcz/s320/pexels%20art.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pexels</td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>NFTs (Non-Fungible Tokens) are online pictures or images (or even soundbites) that have an insane amount of monetary value.</b> They can be of anything, they sell for thousands of pounds, and they rake in plenty of cash for those who sell them - so one might expect that they’d be real artworks, thought-provoking, time-consuming, polished. Artistic, if you will.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I think many traditional art professionals may be excused for reacting a la Banksy when they locked eyes on some of the best-selling NFTs on the market:</span><br /><br /><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: inherit;"><b>I CAN’T BELIEVE YOU MORONS ACTUALLY BUY THIS SHIT.</b></i></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><i style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></i></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiRWJzzw6YZ4LZH7feLG3j1VQs1-3neGZguTPasEI1WhH9EZNk925HBrkTB3DGqxFOJS6Iysy6NeCUuDV-1S6e1mOhK_yKqdTfEw7ViRQsZu0va5C3wgWce-nIw5pQ6QBN6GMODg-n7P103s2WWv3Uamlp62kVp7kQ0yhPfu5JK32ZnhiGmP-Uud9Z/s1200/Morons.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiRWJzzw6YZ4LZH7feLG3j1VQs1-3neGZguTPasEI1WhH9EZNk925HBrkTB3DGqxFOJS6Iysy6NeCUuDV-1S6e1mOhK_yKqdTfEw7ViRQsZu0va5C3wgWce-nIw5pQ6QBN6GMODg-n7P103s2WWv3Uamlp62kVp7kQ0yhPfu5JK32ZnhiGmP-Uud9Z/s320/Morons.webp" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Morons (LA Edition, white) by Banksy, 2007 (accessed <a href="https://www.myartbroker.com/artist-banksy/series-morons/artwork-morons-la-edition-white-signed-print">MyArtBroker</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></div><br /><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">—</span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">When you look at the stats for the top NFTs for the past 30 days, you find yourself face-to-face with art. The top NFTs as of writing this article come from the CryptoPunks collection, which have featured in Christie’s art gallery and Art|Basel Miami. Art Blocks Curated comes in at number five, showcasing a number of different ‘traditional’ artists, while at number seven, we have Takashi Murakami, a well-known artist and pioneer of ‘Superflat’, in his collaboration with RTFKT. There is no doubt that <b>NFTs can be art, and that they are providing a new digital space for art sales and monetisation. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">There’s equally no doubt that <b>NFT art is doing good in the world.</b> Since the invasion of Ukraine by Putin in February 2022, NFTs have been sold to raise money for humanitarian aid in the country. Art itself has equally been of help in more traditional mediums, with brokers like MyArtBroker auctioning a Banksy original of his anti-war piece, CND Soldiers, to </span><a href="https://www.myartbroker.com/all/articles/appeal-for-ohmatdyt-hospital" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>raise funds for the Ohmatdyt Children’s Hospital in Kyev</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">. </span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiowkmWuEa7EU_9qRs4xzrWBXwM74j3ZrvlnUUsxLIktp6GWAULG01xhfh6tLRNPezYAAANQ4qHtI7YgHS5Io-8Q5g1J23wBf2rtVrJ4WbhlR-3auP2NwBMYx__txBE1dEzva0tys1D5TEwvxiAiyXZcgiDKPmeYDzMt3-rusXdzaN2V8fG1D7vnbTf/s1687/CND%20soldiers.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1687" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiowkmWuEa7EU_9qRs4xzrWBXwM74j3ZrvlnUUsxLIktp6GWAULG01xhfh6tLRNPezYAAANQ4qHtI7YgHS5Io-8Q5g1J23wBf2rtVrJ4WbhlR-3auP2NwBMYx__txBE1dEzva0tys1D5TEwvxiAiyXZcgiDKPmeYDzMt3-rusXdzaN2V8fG1D7vnbTf/s320/CND%20soldiers.webp" width="228" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">CND Soldiers by Banksy, 2005 (accessed <a href="https://www.myartbroker.com/artist-banksy/series-cnd-soldiers/artwork-cnd-soldiers-unsigned-print">MyArtBroker</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Many galleries and art professionals have written about </span><a href="https://www.myartbroker.com/collecting/articles/the-true-value-of-nfts-in-the-art-world" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>NFTs opening up a new arena in the art market</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">, providing a digital space for collectors to buy art, ensuring the dissemination of new artists and works, and encouraging a wider base of engagement with artworks. Many artists have taken advantage of this, too, with big figures on the modern art scene (like Takashi Murakami and KAWS) selling them themselves, and galleries making a killing from turning their physical acquisitions into NFTs (for example, Particle bought Banksy’s Love Is In The Air for $12.9 million, turning it into 10,000 separate NFTs). <b>The NFT world is something that art collectors and artists alike are being encouraged to embrace,</b> and they seem to be doing so.</span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7qO1Zw2EijwVxKvkoQ9lpELXoyth2IHf7iJLqlmAsAdkLtbzN5Lep6jLqfixIKkmKZaaymWih1ArfbfLmWGNNW3WRHYiUKKElJqgEN8h1oH9bhZhn8M4oDxwISoaJ2Rpccqw82lDohXZoe5og_zW9RhPSK29WRFQYjUS1jr4jHtSrGDIYfIzGivsb/s1223/field%20of%20smiling%20flowers.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1223" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7qO1Zw2EijwVxKvkoQ9lpELXoyth2IHf7iJLqlmAsAdkLtbzN5Lep6jLqfixIKkmKZaaymWih1ArfbfLmWGNNW3WRHYiUKKElJqgEN8h1oH9bhZhn8M4oDxwISoaJ2Rpccqw82lDohXZoe5og_zW9RhPSK29WRFQYjUS1jr4jHtSrGDIYfIzGivsb/s320/field%20of%20smiling%20flowers.webp" width="314" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Field of Smiling Flowers by Takashi Murakami, 2010 (accessed <a href="https://www.myartbroker.com/artist-takashi-murakami/artwork-field-of-smiling-flowers-signed-print">MyArtBroker</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">But everything isn’t all roses. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Artists - especially independent artists - are struggling with the movement of the art world towards embracing NFTs. </b>Those who have Instagram accounts have to be wary of every new follower, just in case said follower steals their art for their own monetary gain. NFTs are equally having a hugely negative effect on the environment because of the amount of energy that they use, which can leave artists hesitant to engage with them - and equally suffering ethically. The original artist can be in situations where they don’t actually receive any money for their art, they have no control over what their art is used for, and, if you want to have any semblance of control over the creation of NFTs of your art, you have to pay a hefty fee to create them yourself. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKg8UEoGDE34q0MXXPuy6qnwqNSo4P2JtHB1VdAlFRiLjn3eEh6FgvCYuWpyGYa7tCLaCp7Ud9q7n6F7b6VpoAaZ9KPjvc3zqRYDbhDf35Nc9FIo-kMvY0K6t33P7s07U0pkgoOW0L9R4qmpgtThZs9fIByG7eYNnOZHrQ-0MaTtIE6BiDL4R3zXKq/s1182/Screenshot%202022-08-11%20at%2023.21.08.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="730" data-original-width="1182" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKg8UEoGDE34q0MXXPuy6qnwqNSo4P2JtHB1VdAlFRiLjn3eEh6FgvCYuWpyGYa7tCLaCp7Ud9q7n6F7b6VpoAaZ9KPjvc3zqRYDbhDf35Nc9FIo-kMvY0K6t33P7s07U0pkgoOW0L9R4qmpgtThZs9fIByG7eYNnOZHrQ-0MaTtIE6BiDL4R3zXKq/w400-h248/Screenshot%202022-08-11%20at%2023.21.08.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tweet from <a href="https://twitter.com/imffii/status/1456283349362876419">@imffii</a>, independent artist, about NFTs</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Artists and art critics alike have spoken out against NFTs in the art world – particularly </span><a href="https://fadmagazine.com/2022/05/27/whats-wrong-with-art-everyone-is-wrong-about-nfts/" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">@TheLondonArtCritic</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> and </span><a href="https://www.businessofbusiness.com/articles/nfts-turning-artists-into-millionaires-overnight-these-10-creators-are-against-the-hype/" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>ten independent artists who spoke to The Business of Business</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> - and the debate continues.</span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6J4ctBtCRLg6uIp9oWj3rzvIrKr1pI4n8jdkFfw3JclmHUOjWcIbh9_moR3Htlol_tkjPBQcbqlprY46qwk-J4qL_GWIiq5lmc2QACGfn3YyeRzUe-AInzp21ixFZzZ2G8UhVBdWa92iAqmFDxIMiiCUEpOfg6UWQFL4iY5zBGuOwBOZQawrK3Fip/s1203/flower%20thrower.webp" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1203" data-original-width="1200" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6J4ctBtCRLg6uIp9oWj3rzvIrKr1pI4n8jdkFfw3JclmHUOjWcIbh9_moR3Htlol_tkjPBQcbqlprY46qwk-J4qL_GWIiq5lmc2QACGfn3YyeRzUe-AInzp21ixFZzZ2G8UhVBdWa92iAqmFDxIMiiCUEpOfg6UWQFL4iY5zBGuOwBOZQawrK3Fip/s320/flower%20thrower.webp" width="319" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Love Is In The Air (Flower Thrower) by Banksy, </td></tr></tbody></table>2005 (accessed <a href="https://www.myartbroker.com/artist-banksy/series-love-is-in-the-air-flower-thrower/artwork-love-is-in-the-air-flower-thrower-signed-mixed-media">MyArtBroker</a>)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A particular example of NFTs wreaking havoc for artists and buyers alike would be the Banksy debacle in 2021. In August, fans discovered a link to the NFT marketplace OpenSea on Banksy’s webpage, which redirected to a ‘CryptoPunk’ NFT. Pest Control, Banksy’s official authenticator, did not comment on this NFT, but, believing that it was genuine, a buyer acquired the NFT for about $336,000, thinking that the work - which featured three chimneys smoking - was a critique of the NFT market’s environmental impact. In reality, Banksy’s website had been hacked, and the work wasn’t genuine. <b>Banksy is regularly targeted by NFTers</b> - like the time his Morons was </span><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/17/burnt-banksys-inflammatory-nft-not-art#:~:text=Earlier%20this%20year%2C%20in%20Chelsea,he%20set%20it%20on%20fire." style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>purchased, burnt, and turned into NFTs that are worth more than the original artwork</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And what does it mean when you have works by people like Banksy, Damien Hirst, and Jeff Koons being sold for less money than pixelated images of punks?</span></div></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIBqb9UkROgHjsZESiOTw_fSwbzwYdF-Oqg4T0HCcJsSAYLrdbVT09Webl4o8rTBOmO6BE0BTTYv6FLVWRqSA0CSwgvOb6tgfe2-90gPacIe7nJ2IK06ZDqUlg6liBgPeW0b-Q36MxE26rf-3fjzP8CjHLjvIoW1XY2dehqah8csS8d5_fA3I_kOL4/s1765/cryptopunks.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1103" data-original-width="1765" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIBqb9UkROgHjsZESiOTw_fSwbzwYdF-Oqg4T0HCcJsSAYLrdbVT09Webl4o8rTBOmO6BE0BTTYv6FLVWRqSA0CSwgvOb6tgfe2-90gPacIe7nJ2IK06ZDqUlg6liBgPeW0b-Q36MxE26rf-3fjzP8CjHLjvIoW1XY2dehqah8csS8d5_fA3I_kOL4/s320/cryptopunks.jpeg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Cryptopunks (accessed <a href="https://www.christies.com/features/10-things-to-know-about-CryptoPunks-11569-1.aspx">Christie's</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The traditional art critic might have a problem with NFT art, because it isn’t traditional art. It isn’t the kind of art you would normally find in the Louvre, or the kind of art that would necessarily fit in alongside a collection of Da Vinci and Van Gogh, and maybe not even alongside Louis Wain’s cats. But this doesn’t mean that it isn’t art, does it? </span><a href="https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-stake-debate-nfts-art" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Mieke Marple</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">, LA artist, has said it herself:</span></div><br /><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>If in the first year of NFTs being mainstream, two NFT sales have broken records for amounts paid for works by living artists, then one can surmise that it is only a matter of time before that two becomes ten - and that ten becomes fifty. So what’s really at stake are ideas about what art matters most. For <b>if a digital drawing of Buzz Lightyear with boobs was, one day, worth more than a Picasso, Modigliani, or *gasp* Leonardo, it would mean that everything many people thought they knew about art, and by extension the world, would be upside down.</b></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><i><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">What is so offensive (at least, to some people) about the high prices paid for works by Beeple, Pak, and other NFT artists is how little their aesthetics and modalities align with traditional fine art values.</span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">NFT artists do not, for the most part, obliquely cite Western art history in a way that only the MFA-educated can understand. They do not revere museums like the MoMA and the Tate, or galleries like Gagosian and David Zwirner. Their art references the history of video games, pixel art, comic books, AI, sci-fi, concert graphics, and other histories that have not been canonised by museums or universities. … Their biggest collectors have profile pics of white undies stained with poo. </span></i></div></span></i><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And I agree with Marple: we can’t let snobbery control what is a very profitable and viable way of getting new artists out there, and we need to embrace this new culture.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>NFTs aren’t killing the art world.</b> While they certainly have their negative points - and while the focus on monetary gain in the NFT world is leading to them damaging the art that </span><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-werent-supposed-end-like/618488/" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Anil Dash says they were designed to save</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> - they are providing space for new and modern art to get out there and make money (which is, arguably, what traditional art markets did anyway). <b>They are changing the art world,</b> creating something that appeals more to tech-bros and business people looking to make a buck than your traditional art collector.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Whether that’s for the better or worse, we must wait and see. </span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Anna Coopey</span></i></b></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">4th year undergraduate student in Classics at The University of St Andrews in Scotland. Keen writer and researcher on a number of topics, varying from Modern Greek literature to revolutionary theory. </div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Twitter: <b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="https://twitter.com/anna_coopey" target="_blank">@anna_coopey</a></span></b> </div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Recommended article:</b></div><div style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><b>The Role that Social Media plays in the NFT market </b>- <a href="https://www.socialsongbird.com/2022/05/the-role-that-social-media-plays-in.html"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">https://www.socialsongbird.com/2022/05/the-role-that-social-media-plays-in.html</span></b></a></div></span></div></span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Works Cited:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Why These Ten Artists Hate NFTs (The Business of Business) - </span><a href="https://www.businessofbusiness.com/articles/nfts-turning-artists-into-millionaires-overnight-these-10-creators-are-against-the-hype/" style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.businessofbusiness.com/articles/nfts-turning-artists-into-millionaires-overnight-these-10-creators-are-against-the-hype/</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What’s Wrong With Art: Everyone Is Wrong About NFTs (Fad Magazine) - </span><a href="https://fadmagazine.com/2022/05/27/whats-wrong-with-art-everyone-is-wrong-about-nfts/" style="font-family: inherit;">https://fadmagazine.com/2022/05/27/whats-wrong-with-art-everyone-is-wrong-about-nfts/</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">NFTS & Damien Hirst: The Digital vs The Physical (MyArtBroker) - </span><a href="https://www.myartbroker.com/investing/articles/nfts-damien-hirst" style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.myartbroker.com/investing/articles/nfts-damien-hirst</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The True Value of NFTs in the Art World (MyArtBroker) - </span><a href="https://www.myartbroker.com/collecting/articles/the-true-value-of-nfts-in-the-art-world" style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.myartbroker.com/collecting/articles/the-true-value-of-nfts-in-the-art-world</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Blue-Chip Artists Who Joined The Metaverse (MyArtBroker) - </span><a href="https://www.myartbroker.com/investing/articles/blue-chip-artists-who-joined-the-metaverse" style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.myartbroker.com/investing/articles/blue-chip-artists-who-joined-the-metaverse</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How Have NFTs Revolutionised The Art World? (MyArtBroker) - </span><a href="https://www.myartbroker.com/collecting/articles/how-have-nfts-revolutionised-the-art-world" style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.myartbroker.com/collecting/articles/how-have-nfts-revolutionised-the-art-world</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How To Get Started Investing In NFTs? (MyArtBroker) - </span><a href="https://www.myartbroker.com/investing/articles/how-to-get-started-investing-in-NFTs" style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.myartbroker.com/investing/articles/how-to-get-started-investing-in-NFTs</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Benefits and Risks of NFT Investing (MyArtBroker) - </span><a href="https://www.myartbroker.com/investing/articles/benefits-and-risks-of-nft-investing" style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.myartbroker.com/investing/articles/benefits-and-risks-of-nft-investing</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jeff Koons & NFTs: Moon Phases (MyArtBroker) - </span><a href="https://www.myartbroker.com/artist-jeff-koons/articles/jeff-koons-and-nfts-moon-phases" style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.myartbroker.com/artist-jeff-koons/articles/jeff-koons-and-nfts-moon-phases</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Takashi Murakami & NFTs: Flower Power (MyArtBroker) - </span><a href="https://www.myartbroker.com/artist-takashi-murakami/articles/takashi-murakami-nfts-flower-power" style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.myartbroker.com/artist-takashi-murakami/articles/takashi-murakami-nfts-flower-power</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">KAWS: Art and the Digital World (MyArtBroker) - </span><a href="https://www.myartbroker.com/artist-kaws/articles/kaws-art-and-the-digital-world" style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.myartbroker.com/artist-kaws/articles/kaws-art-and-the-digital-world</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Banksy & NFTs: From The Street to the Blockchain (MyArtBroker) - </span><a href="https://www.myartbroker.com/investing/articles/from-the-street-to-the-blockchain-banksy-and-nfts" style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.myartbroker.com/investing/articles/from-the-street-to-the-blockchain-banksy-and-nfts</a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Are NFTs The Future of Art Collecting? (MyArtBroker) - </span><a href="https://www.myartbroker.com/investing/articles/is-nft-the-future-of-art-collecting%E2%80%AF" style="font-family: inherit;">https://www.myartbroker.com/investing/articles/is-nft-the-future-of-art-collecting </a></div></span></div>Anna Coopeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12617339904914819703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812126921403364241.post-32640372243464687322022-08-06T16:21:00.002+00:002022-08-18T10:28:07.826+00:00The Online Safety Bill: Can Safety be Separated from Privacy? <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="1087" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNXXRxglvbDZZUB1tIiidV8OJ8P8ePVeZxSAbSmnxpXTv0sgYLpzfSy9yQalkxS8BMvKLdD-zUD27iAaD_VTk-nNpvx8ED4A_1woaOw_bnhvcv3YwBebo-oUcwyWd7sIkeY3DenFvvd5vIe-itBbKt5Fig7rjS2-2kalGmFb3yETLgb50S6_hnkiWWXA/w400-h226/O%20bill%20pic%201%20.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="https://eu.thespectrum.com/story/news/local/mesquite/2019/05/20/p-c-periodicals-people-use-doxing-get-revenge-online/3740799002/" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">eu.thespectrum.com</span></a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNXXRxglvbDZZUB1tIiidV8OJ8P8ePVeZxSAbSmnxpXTv0sgYLpzfSy9yQalkxS8BMvKLdD-zUD27iAaD_VTk-nNpvx8ED4A_1woaOw_bnhvcv3YwBebo-oUcwyWd7sIkeY3DenFvvd5vIe-itBbKt5Fig7rjS2-2kalGmFb3yETLgb50S6_hnkiWWXA/s1087/O%20bill%20pic%201%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">As the Online Safety Bill has been put on hold until Conservative members choose the UK’s next prime minister, sceptics are claiming that it wholly disregards democratic principles. With online abuse constantly increasing, the government’s manifesto has outlined it plans for the bill to allow the UK to become <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-bill-supporting-documents/online-safety-bill-factsheet" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">the safest place in the world to be online</span></b></a>, while supposedly still maintaining free expression. Yet, <b>to what extent should we favour online safety over freedom of expression and individual privacy? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/tory-leadership-candidate-kemi-badenoch-says-online-safety-bill-is-in-no-fit-shape-to-become-law-12651674" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">‘We should not be legislating for hurt feelings’</span></b></a>, as argued by Conservative leadership candidate Kemi Badenoch, before being booted from the leadership race. The Online Safety Bill has received an exponential amount of abuse for its <b>supposed</b> <b>prioritisation of psychological wellbeing over privacy and freedom of speech. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Castigated for its murky proposals to give online platforms the right to determine which <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-bill-supporting-documents/online-safety-bill-factsheet" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">‘legal but harmful’</span></b></a> material they will allow on their sites, the Online Safety Bill has certainly attracted its fair share of critics. <b>But what exactly does the bill propose? </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span>Social media platforms, messaging apps, search engines and pornography sites must ensure that illegal material is detected and tackled, as well as ‘legal but harmful’ content. To name a few, the bill aims to prevent <b>terrorism, disinformation and online abuse, as well as revenge pornography, cyberstalking, and child sexual exploitation.</b> UK communications regulator </span><a href="https://www.ofcom.org.uk/home" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Ofcom</span></b></a><span> would be able to remove ‘harmful’ content and punish firms which fail to obey the bill’s terms and conditions. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="953" data-original-width="1384" height="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfA9av8aXeVrQPtoZtsjC37BeyEtGDMXkZjzDiKMpTBwzUKVHujecYJ5AaZo0Ux55lW5_1483Idm-TQhMhoFLKPA_t33WqPI72ZmvnQ9g1CADrqjS_UtiR97cInzvoFuKGYJIzziZqdaLNwNZU3gvjsaVlSWDLNPXqj23MnlTV-WOCTQi7yGv0l_xZMA/w400-h275/O%20bill%20pic%202%20.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></span></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/1110769/experiences-of-online-abuse-by-age/" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">statista.com</span></a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfA9av8aXeVrQPtoZtsjC37BeyEtGDMXkZjzDiKMpTBwzUKVHujecYJ5AaZo0Ux55lW5_1483Idm-TQhMhoFLKPA_t33WqPI72ZmvnQ9g1CADrqjS_UtiR97cInzvoFuKGYJIzziZqdaLNwNZU3gvjsaVlSWDLNPXqj23MnlTV-WOCTQi7yGv0l_xZMA/s1384/O%20bill%20pic%202%20.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Not only does the bill fail to consider smaller online platforms that are renowned for propagating dangerous content online, such as <a href="https://www.socialsongbird.com/2022/07/the-red-handed-red-pill-role-of-social.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>4chan and BitChute</b></span></a>, but it is supposedly in direct competition with individual privacy. Likened to the Tories’ previous unsuccessful attempts to use age-verification measures to stop under-18s from accessing pornography, the Online Safety Bill will increase the number of online <a href="https://www.spiked-online.com/2022/04/20/the-online-safety-bill-would-treat-us-all-like-children/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">age-verification measures</span></b></a>. Denying users the right to access content anonymously threatens online privacy. In the event of a misuse of power, personal information could be used to <b>manipulate and coerce individuals.</b> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Where </span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;">do </span><a href="https://news.sky.com/story/tory-leadership-candidate-kemi-badenoch-says-online-safety-bill-is-in-no-fit-shape-to-become-law-12651674" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>‘hurt feelings’</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> enter</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> the equation? With social media influencers reporting that they are often unable to post content without receiving death threats from social media users, they are calling for the bill to be approached with urgency. Former Love Island</span><span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> contestant </span><a href="https://corq.studio/insights/as-the-online-safety-bill-is-put-on-hold-influencers-and-mps-react/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Amy Hart</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">reported the abuse to social media networks, but her complaints were dismissed as <b>the abuse did not violate community guidelines.</b> However, the idea of a trade-off between online privacy and the prevention of psychological damage has not been well received. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">With influencers making a fortune out of presenting us with every detail of their luxurious lifestyles on Instagram, the abuse they report is merely dismissed as unfortunate but expected: you signed up for a life on social media, now deal with the consequences. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Contrastingly, choosing to be a social media influencer does not equate to accepting abuse, and having to just get over it. As the 2022 cast of Love Island has arguably signed up to be social media influencers just by choosing to be on the show, this does not legitimate <b>the torrent of abuse that we have witnessed so far.</b> While Love Island’s first deaf contestant <b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/tashaghouri/?hl=en" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Tasha Ghouri</span></a> </span></b>has been in the villa for the last seven weeks, she has been the subject of intense online abuse. <a href="https://graziadaily.co.uk/celebrity/news/love-island-tasha-ghouri-trolling-deaf/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">“Tasha is so annoying someone should just rip her hearing aid off – I can’t stand her voice either”</span></b></a> is just one of the ableist comments that Tasha will have to scroll through now she has left the Love Island villa. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Ableist trolling is just one of the forms of abuse that the bill aims to tackle: platforms will be held more responsible for the removal of harmful online content and must hold those responsible for its distribution. The Online Safety Bill also requires online firms to further tackle <b>vile racist abuse</b>. On the 11th of July 2021, we witnessed England’s defeat in the final of the 2021 UEFA Euro tournament final after a nail-biting penalty shoot-out. By the 14th of July, <span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/british-accounts-sent-bulk-racist-abuse-during-euro-2020-final-n1276432" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">2,087</span></b></a> </span>racist tweets had been removed from Twitter. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="364" data-original-width="694" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht7PpU9NMnKr749NxvDXCPnFJKc71-VSPY4QlKZEWvN1CuEPOzQVaPf0iBx-agtLwclmnD756DngjImnM1Bbqb5cp1lZH0FcpkArY_pABPmBF_E8l1Ag0225U5jtPz18tyenIqqqWO3cHE87_U5-3PPAP4WXYI9_lDjV-gxO7OvIKJRAXGlWwCbpe_hA/w400-h210/O%20bill%203%20.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Source:<span style="color: #674ea7;"> <a href="https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/kick_out_racism_uk_loc/" style="text-align: start;">secure.avaaz.com</a></span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEht7PpU9NMnKr749NxvDXCPnFJKc71-VSPY4QlKZEWvN1CuEPOzQVaPf0iBx-agtLwclmnD756DngjImnM1Bbqb5cp1lZH0FcpkArY_pABPmBF_E8l1Ag0225U5jtPz18tyenIqqqWO3cHE87_U5-3PPAP4WXYI9_lDjV-gxO7OvIKJRAXGlWwCbpe_hA/s694/O%20bill%203%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In 1963, the 11th Duke of Argyll found and used photographic images of his wife, Margaret Whigham, engaging in sexual activity with another man as grounds to file for divorce and subsequently destroy his wife’s reputation. Despite also having extra-marital relations, he was the instigator of one of the <a href="https://www.townandcountrymag.com/leisure/arts-and-culture/a38688083/duchess-of-argyll-a-very-british-scandal-true-story/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>first cases of revenge porn within the UK</b></span>.</a> With the added element of social media, <b>cases of image-based sexual abuse, known as revenge porn, are ever-increasing.</b> Between 2019 and 2021, the number of <a href="https://news.sky.com/story/revenge-porn-victims-have-doubled-in-last-two-years-figures-suggest-12255933" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>revenge porn victims doubled</b></span></a>. Sextortion, when perpetrators threaten to post their victims’ images if they refuse to fulfil their demands, is also on the rise. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="376" data-original-width="700" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirWAzLWrnZBQCW79fWGhnlbX9kjK0njXul0j0IxQL4UplrD0ks5_yclUTQvNkicbHJm92B8aymNwdDBn7EpaIP2XjvNT5EijwnJ9e5fcKmaqNpuosE2ipmX2-UkbwWhF8KMTQMxC6yTSjryP4Vh4QV_EL7VDc2XrOKDPCBtkxy83O0nstE4-3e_MrYQg/w400-h215/O%20bill%20pic%204%20.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="https://revengepornhelpline.org.uk/assets/documents/intimate-image-abuse-an-evolving-landscape.pdf?_=1639471939" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">revengepornhelpline.org.uk</span></a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEirWAzLWrnZBQCW79fWGhnlbX9kjK0njXul0j0IxQL4UplrD0ks5_yclUTQvNkicbHJm92B8aymNwdDBn7EpaIP2XjvNT5EijwnJ9e5fcKmaqNpuosE2ipmX2-UkbwWhF8KMTQMxC6yTSjryP4Vh4QV_EL7VDc2XrOKDPCBtkxy83O0nstE4-3e_MrYQg/s700/O%20bill%20pic%204%20.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Speaking of her own personal experiences, a victim of revenge porn detailed the devastating effects this type of abuse had on her life. Her images, which she had sent many years before to an online friend, were being used on a fetish account on Twitter: </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.schoolsconsentproject.com/stories/1-i-was-a-victim-of-revenge-porn-now-i-m-speaking-out" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>“I quit my job because I was severely depressed and began to suffer from extreme anxiety. I moved cities to try to run away from my problems (which didn’t help)”</b></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>How many more individuals must suffer before this is considered a serious issue? </b>Out of the 19,000 revenge porn victims in the last four years, at least<b><span style="color: #674ea7;"> <a href="https://www.channel4.com/news/nearly-19000-victims-of-so-called-revenge-porn-in-four-years-investigation-finds-2" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;">2,000</span></a> </span></b>of them were under the age of 18. In fact, for every month that the bill is delayed further, there will be another <a href="https://www.thenational.wales/news/20583247.nspcc-thousands-child-abuse-crimes-every-month-online-safety-bill-delayed/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>3,500</b></span></a> online child abuse crimes. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Would the Online Safety Bill come at a cost to end-to-end encryption?</b> With the bill’s proposals for new rules that will allow online services to search for <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-bill-supporting-documents/online-safety-bill-factsheet" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>illegal material online</b></span></a>, ultimately gives these services the right to allow third parties to have overall access to users’ private communications. Prior to Brexit, the EU’s <a href="https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/e-commerce-directive" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>e-Commerce Directive</b></span></a> ensured that EU member states could not introduce measures to allow them to freely monitor exchanged messages between individuals. Since Brexit, this is no longer the case for the UK. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="226" data-original-width="451" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-x5QTbLV1x3xrzckwDFkdZxy8gUVZnTLmN-nG6W5Nt36rjkvQiU3vywhCJAGuW5_LyQqq_DBZYp-NFqvAPvcbCy_ovVIQDQh2RMQj1zQ6LPN9fyAJOnuw3rzDp_XDwfV0dIaR3C2JyVjwyTpdhtFyQNV_JZEDi5eUg6p67NwSEi6_ZQUzpEB5sXLQbw/w400-h200/Picture%201.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="https://blog.etesync.com/end-to-end-encryption-what-it-is-and-why-it-is-needed/" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif; text-align: start;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">blog.etesync.com</span></a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; line-height: 18.4px; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-x5QTbLV1x3xrzckwDFkdZxy8gUVZnTLmN-nG6W5Nt36rjkvQiU3vywhCJAGuW5_LyQqq_DBZYp-NFqvAPvcbCy_ovVIQDQh2RMQj1zQ6LPN9fyAJOnuw3rzDp_XDwfV0dIaR3C2JyVjwyTpdhtFyQNV_JZEDi5eUg6p67NwSEi6_ZQUzpEB5sXLQbw/s451/Picture%201.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></a></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Online Safety Bill’s <i>de facto</i> termination of end-to-end encryption has concerned<span style="color: #674ea7;"><b> <a href="https://www.bcs.org/articles-opinion-and-research/removing-end-to-end-encryption-would-do-more-harm-than-good-says-poll-of-it-professionals/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;">industry experts</span></a></b></span>, as there could be an increased risk of hackers finding a way to uncover users’ financial data. Moreover, some users have expressed their doubts about the government’s plans to monitor their communications. There is certainly a difference between securing users’ online safety and imposing measures to increase governmental surveillance on a national scale. While the latter option may resemble the recycled plot of dystopian blockbuster movies, <b>the potential for power misuse can never be overlooked. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">One thing is certain: the Online Safety Bill must not be dismissed under any circumstances. It is a vital piece of legislation that has the power to make the UK’s online environment much safer for its users. Yet, the potential negative implications of hindering end-to-end encryption, as well as failing to regulate smaller sites prone to accommodating threatening content, are issues that must be acknowledged. The vague definition of ‘legal but harmful’ content shows how it seems to be <b>a half-finished bill.</b> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Without a doubt, with the ongoing battle to become the UK’s next prime minister, the Online Safety Bill must also be placed at the <b>forefront of the Sunak versus Truss Conservative Leadership debate agenda. </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000;">Lucy Thomas </span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lucy is an undergraduate BSc Politics and International Relations student at the London School of Economics and Political Science. 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justify;"><a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/1110769/experiences-of-online-abuse-by-age/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.statista.com/statistics/1110769/experiences-of-online-abuse-by-age/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.socialsongbird.com/2022/07/the-red-handed-red-pill-role-of-social.html"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.socialsongbird.com/2022/07/the-red-handed-red-pill-role-of-social.html</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://corq.studio/insights/as-the-online-safety-bill-is-put-on-hold-influencers-and-mps-react/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://corq.studio/insights/as-the-online-safety-bill-is-put-on-hold-influencers-and-mps-react/</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/tashaghouri/?hl=en"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.instagram.com/tashaghouri/?hl=en</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a 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x-small;">https://www.channel4.com/news/nearly-19000-victims-of-so-called-revenge-porn-in-four-years-investigation-finds-2</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.ft.com/content/5a5801fe-bb2f-4e7f-9823-9c795b1e4cc2"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.ft.com/content/5a5801fe-bb2f-4e7f-9823-9c795b1e4cc2</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-bill-supporting-documents/online-safety-bill-factsheet"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/online-safety-bill-supporting-documents/online-safety-bill-factsheet</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/e-commerce-directive"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/e-commerce-directive</span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blog.etesync.com/end-to-end-encryption-what-it-is-and-why-it-is-needed/"><span style="font-size: x-small;">https://blog.etesync.com/end-to-end-encryption-what-it-is-and-why-it-is-needed/</span></a></div>Lucy Thomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02845891489099059127noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812126921403364241.post-18870585418112444642022-08-05T20:01:00.004+00:002022-08-17T22:53:20.052+00:00How To Use Twitter Spaces To Boost Sales And Build A Community Of Advocates<p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a;">Have you ever used </span><a href="https://www.socialsongbird.com/2021/03/this-is-me-and-i-am-done-speaking-rich.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Clubhouse</b></span></a><span style="color: #4a4a4a;">?</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">If you have a Twitter account,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"> you can create audio conversation Spaces, pretty much like people do in Clubhouse.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyhGAjpVfZf52_rySfElxQUKCyqsTmWHf0vcGFOh0gYGsV7wqQeJAFhNYKmX6_OxGcquDPoillGf_l7xnh06EQWikO-4hdCzzKnkzprqskn1TepofX3srIWag--IBdjkeV3afF5-l8zlI-PTGV0bDxOqYqRyej5C0aRCdnkLyXwlkQs7ShQXjhJg/s810/Twitter%20spaces%2010.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="456" data-original-width="810" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgyhGAjpVfZf52_rySfElxQUKCyqsTmWHf0vcGFOh0gYGsV7wqQeJAFhNYKmX6_OxGcquDPoillGf_l7xnh06EQWikO-4hdCzzKnkzprqskn1TepofX3srIWag--IBdjkeV3afF5-l8zlI-PTGV0bDxOqYqRyej5C0aRCdnkLyXwlkQs7ShQXjhJg/s320/Twitter%20spaces%2010.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><b>Why should a business run Twitter Spaces?</b></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">Show your expertise while building community, no matter what industry you are in. Is like running conferences permanently bringing together people of your industry and anyone interested in it or even people looking for your type of services or products.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><br /></span></span></p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><b>Show expertise</b></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><b>Share valuable information about the industry you are in, get your potential clients interested</b></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><b>Stand out from the competition</b></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><b>No equipment is needed apart from your phone</b></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><b>It is free to run it</b></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><b>No marketing is needed</b></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><b>Be the one place to come to ask questions about the niche or industry</b></span></span></li><li><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><b>Build trust and credibility</b></span></span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You can take
advantage of all the benefits of this audio format on Twitter and engage with anyone on Twitter interested in the topic.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">If you want to
learn what are Twitter Spaces, how it works, and how to take advantage of this
Twitter feature to boost your brand on this social network, keep reading this
blog!</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 30pt; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>What Are Twitter Spaces?<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Twitter Spaces
is a new feature on Twitter to have live audio conversations. Almost like a podcast but these are always live.</span></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Twitter Spaces
were announced in December 2020. They were initially launched as a beta version
for selected individuals to test. After that, Twitter added the ability for
accounts with 600 or more followers to host Spaces.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">And now, anyone
can start and host Twitter Spaces; there is no minimum following required. In
fact, someone who's not on Twitter can also listen to the conversion happening
using the Space link. However, they won't be able to join the discussions.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 30pt; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #4a4a4a;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Benefits Of Using Twitter Spaces<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Right now, one
of the most significant advantages of using Twitter Spaces is that your
audience is already there and it is huge. Hence, you don't need to build an audience from
scratch and then invite them to enter your Space to learn about your business.
Here are some other advantages of the tool:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 30pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #4a4a4a;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Twitter's Audience Is Huge<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Twitter has
billions of accounts, but about <a href="https://statusbrew.com/insights/social-media-statistics/" target="blank"><span style="color: blue;">363 million</span></a> are monthly active users.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">An average of
66% of these users access Twitter every week. However, 46% consume content
daily on the network on average.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The most
interesting fact here is that a study suggested that about 44% of Twitter users
form a silent but attentive audience.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">They observe
everything happening on the platform without ever posting a single tweet. Now,
you might know the potential for gaining leads and potential customers on this
social network.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">If we look at how many people listen to audio (no music) in the UK and US...</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In the UK</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.iabuk.com/news-article/listening-britain-332m-listening-online-audio-weekly" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="673" data-original-width="749" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5rHUVTHxYMNtLdi_KE8tAHr3q_-8iah6skNI3WvyFyMtcG3wH2rZUrQ71U2F-GBCTat45r7zTPsb8zPzVZd9tlW68pzWyaJ3MpXXmN9szxMW0TF9Wj4jI241tV35lv1l5s6nDhM8xOtH6QIC3FEBvSfZz1yY-pvPwEfIbO0ZnovuRj0QGufLsBw/w400-h360/UK%20listening%20online%202022.PNG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Source: <a href="https://www.iabuk.com/news-article/listening-britain-332m-listening-online-audio-weekly">iabUK</a></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"></span></div><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In the United States</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS28LXU8lRv1k5hpFWGQqWBjogLyPLaL8aNyvkWQgX85qHeRqevPw1JjuiKTT0MC5xIiPJT2iazi9xqbMeWT_Ul1n8m2BRHslJGXg2LG-nQPSbzqXQr649b6rdKsyut5l5f7ZWrjJE8NV7VoCABfJo7wst8vjc8pFPBxjrt9UkBKyhDU0bZ5xSNg/s1405/Twitter-s-Ticketed-Spaces-means-more-money-for-hosts-8-audio-listeners-growth.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="791" data-original-width="1405" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS28LXU8lRv1k5hpFWGQqWBjogLyPLaL8aNyvkWQgX85qHeRqevPw1JjuiKTT0MC5xIiPJT2iazi9xqbMeWT_Ul1n8m2BRHslJGXg2LG-nQPSbzqXQr649b6rdKsyut5l5f7ZWrjJE8NV7VoCABfJo7wst8vjc8pFPBxjrt9UkBKyhDU0bZ5xSNg/w640-h360/Twitter-s-Ticketed-Spaces-means-more-money-for-hosts-8-audio-listeners-growth.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqEaSTIfYMq9arum6G0j936DmgeRsInwjlBW3OiDSLAFfs-1NIvpy6utVDYm-F1prTAwtNBOKcg2eIYiLIHJVP90Z4EwuWZhFBITuXbana1xdxAzVqGI191m_FFkot23VMc6A0n37wvxFAIai8oPrvo8lNLSrcRICvU-KGwmR0VCu2vLHsF4_Jug/s768/twitter-user-growth-768x584.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="584" data-original-width="768" height="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqEaSTIfYMq9arum6G0j936DmgeRsInwjlBW3OiDSLAFfs-1NIvpy6utVDYm-F1prTAwtNBOKcg2eIYiLIHJVP90Z4EwuWZhFBITuXbana1xdxAzVqGI191m_FFkot23VMc6A0n37wvxFAIai8oPrvo8lNLSrcRICvU-KGwmR0VCu2vLHsF4_Jug/w400-h304/twitter-user-growth-768x584.png" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 30pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #4a4a4a;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Greater Engagement With Followers<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Twitter users do not interact much anymore, most people on Twitter read Tweets but don't interact, so don't be surprised that you don't get any likes or comments when you post on Twitter unless you are a celebrity, a politician, or an influencer, you will not get much or anything at all.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Because of these
reasons, Twitter Spaces created by brands and businesses are usually well
accepted. You can build a community of people interested in what you make or sell, whether they are products or services.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 30pt; mso-outline-level: 3; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #4a4a4a;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">More Visibility<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;">A button with a microphone icon that is at the bottom of your screen will take you to Twitter Spaces where you can see the list of Spaces happening. That is how people will find your Space and if they become your followers they will be shown in their account when you have a Space happening.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">If they are your followers, the
Twitter Spaces icon appears at the top of the home screen, and any of your
followers can see the activity in progress. The room gets open as soon as they
click on the profile.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX6BFsnpYpBLw2z6Sg_0ffyPv9QZOlWiIhOOU4aIAsR_FThzKtlPGf3VNIBsD2PQ1l5dF6-0szKMPt1U2OOeP36MJ3aROOE0W4kdhks2RRhQngKS2FMdDEcLGkmc-labNa6xX6OJoDb0KQoJPBomD8hekBDedlVZpJff_T9HedjfYs5V2mbxr_QA/s592/Twitter%20Spaces%201.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="263" data-original-width="592" height="142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhX6BFsnpYpBLw2z6Sg_0ffyPv9QZOlWiIhOOU4aIAsR_FThzKtlPGf3VNIBsD2PQ1l5dF6-0szKMPt1U2OOeP36MJ3aROOE0W4kdhks2RRhQngKS2FMdDEcLGkmc-labNa6xX6OJoDb0KQoJPBomD8hekBDedlVZpJff_T9HedjfYs5V2mbxr_QA/s320/Twitter%20Spaces%201.PNG" width="320" /></a><br /><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">If they are following you, they will see your space at the top of their "Home" page</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">If they are not your followers they can open the icon/button with the microphone at the bottom of the screen and find you in the list of Spaces.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><br /></span></span><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: justify;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf9JVTgTu2aa8GEDOXaBjZI08jSw3WcmKklaVW0tdYITyT-6ArZwde55QrvgWfc4GgJOaSaZI_8VYCnJg9IXn19Mcn__o9QGBcUzKPDts9N3k8hdXHUmPHcIckLcrBIvBOCGrvFJzOFsusxmnxnjYzfMF7ckj4cRfRcuYzBfY1OttRx-y5bEYr8w/s2048/Twitter%20Spaces%204.PNG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1184" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhf9JVTgTu2aa8GEDOXaBjZI08jSw3WcmKklaVW0tdYITyT-6ArZwde55QrvgWfc4GgJOaSaZI_8VYCnJg9IXn19Mcn__o9QGBcUzKPDts9N3k8hdXHUmPHcIckLcrBIvBOCGrvFJzOFsusxmnxnjYzfMF7ckj4cRfRcuYzBfY1OttRx-y5bEYr8w/w370-h640/Twitter%20Spaces%204.PNG" width="370" /></a><br /><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">They will find you by clicking the microphone icon <br />to open the list of Spaces happening or scheduled</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #4a4a4a;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: large; letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><br /></span></div></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH-e-X9ttUXhJcwdj5hfrdSNMtcaw1WElbIRUAtTUtBI3EqjusO5upjUNiu5_90Jd0Hnp3uh6yPDDqRlgvO3Sg57NhKsLWC8rqV-sWQYSfDIf4lCI1okD4Ws3oN7sbLmJSsHVoXifyJogeT6OelsajCA5n9p2DbtFxZ22rAVPAFPKJJPSBSxgPmg/s2048/Twitter%20Spaces%205.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1152" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjH-e-X9ttUXhJcwdj5hfrdSNMtcaw1WElbIRUAtTUtBI3EqjusO5upjUNiu5_90Jd0Hnp3uh6yPDDqRlgvO3Sg57NhKsLWC8rqV-sWQYSfDIf4lCI1okD4Ws3oN7sbLmJSsHVoXifyJogeT6OelsajCA5n9p2DbtFxZ22rAVPAFPKJJPSBSxgPmg/w360-h640/Twitter%20Spaces%205.PNG" width="360" /></a></span></div><span style="color: #4a4a4a;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><br /></span></div></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The layout of
Twitter Spaces is clear and intuitive. It directs the user to participate in
the conversation in some way or the other, either by asking to speak or by
selecting one of the reaction buttons.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 30pt; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #4a4a4a;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Who Can Join a Twitter Space?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 30pt; mso-outline-level: 2;"><b><span style="color: #4a4a4a;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="color: #4a4a4a;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq4RI3ST3FIGJcU-jlOBYGpQ6OeUkbxHV-7iyvgRdYVEtMgtiyZH48d_257NaCJ-HEsKhHGg3244HnsGdCkHt5eapYh0OXqKStJnuaUPeF4Q5vxdq1GA6o4wqSRssIV1Ob5xFbxURvh-YS_O4s2c7UzExW-YSDJuc1efyXMcVyLdLivEmWqKLT7A/s1237/Twitter%20Spaces%202.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1237" data-original-width="607" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgq4RI3ST3FIGJcU-jlOBYGpQ6OeUkbxHV-7iyvgRdYVEtMgtiyZH48d_257NaCJ-HEsKhHGg3244HnsGdCkHt5eapYh0OXqKStJnuaUPeF4Q5vxdq1GA6o4wqSRssIV1Ob5xFbxURvh-YS_O4s2c7UzExW-YSDJuc1efyXMcVyLdLivEmWqKLT7A/w314-h640/Twitter%20Spaces%202.PNG" width="314" /></a></span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-weight: 700;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Whether they are
on the app or the web version, any Twitter user can join a Twitter Space.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">All you have to do is go to the microphone icon at the bottom of the screen and find the list of Spaces, some are scheduled and some are running at that moment. Just click on it and you will be listening, you can press to request to talk if you want to or you can just listen.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">All Twitter
Spaces are public. This means that you don't have to follow a person to join a
Space they are hosting. On the other hand, Ticketed Spaces have a limited
number of attendees. It also requires listeners to buy a ticket to join.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">You will have to
use the Twitter app if you would like to raise your hand to ask a question to
the host or contribute to the discussion. This is because Twitter's web version
only supports listening to Spaces.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">If someone isn't
a Twitter user but wishes to listen, they can join a Twitter Space on the web
if they have a direct link to that Space. But they won't be able to take part
in the discussion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Some Twitter Spaces run for 1 hour and some never stop, so you can listen for as long as you want.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 30pt; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #4a4a4a;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Who Can Host A Twitter Space?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In October
2021, Twitter announced that everyone on Android and iOS would be able to host
a Space.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; font-size: medium;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.333333px;"><b>Anyone with a Twitter account can host a Twitter Space.</b></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Hosts of Twitter
Spaces also have the ability to make their listeners co-hosts or speakers. This
gives the listeners more opportunity to participate than being ordinary
listeners.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">A Twitter Space
can have up to 13 speakers, including two co-hosts and the host.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Co-hosts have
admin rights in the Twitter Space. They have the ability to invite others to
become speakers, remove participants, edit the Space name, manage speaker
requests, mute all speakers and manage pinned tweets.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">But they can't
end the Space or add or remove other co-hosts.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The main host
also has the ability to transfer primary hosting to the co-host. If the primary
host leaves the Space, the co-host that was added first obtains primary admin
rights.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit4akqm6VPdTUj_bntvyBi_zML4xRzAkw04ER6_gONoMlJOeN2yTeZEDWeiNlY1PShOATxDWV5S8Q0ZM-KvhFMvxTZBYiHEOvymCvaWcxXDajeMsBNkmZ_GenrmKPS-Imu0VFm_p37sk9a1xT-0e6jkyLbOOPbDLC1sOPvGkwlpvJKdNKVA_EAKw/s1440/Join-listen-speak-and-host-Twitter-Spaces-is-here-HERO.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="757" data-original-width="1440" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEit4akqm6VPdTUj_bntvyBi_zML4xRzAkw04ER6_gONoMlJOeN2yTeZEDWeiNlY1PShOATxDWV5S8Q0ZM-KvhFMvxTZBYiHEOvymCvaWcxXDajeMsBNkmZ_GenrmKPS-Imu0VFm_p37sk9a1xT-0e6jkyLbOOPbDLC1sOPvGkwlpvJKdNKVA_EAKw/w400-h210/Join-listen-speak-and-host-Twitter-Spaces-is-here-HERO.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="https://www.adobomagazine.com/digital-news/digital-join-listen-speak-and-host-twitter-spaces-is-here/">adobomagazine.com</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 30pt; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #4a4a4a;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">How To Start Twitter Spaces?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Step 1:</span></b><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"> Tap on the "+"
floating button at the bottom right.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">
<b>Step 2:</b> Tap on "Spaces" from the available options.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">
<b>Step 3:</b> Enter a name for the Spaces</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">
<b>Step 4:</b> Tap "Add Topics" to select topics. You can pick
up to 3 topics to help others discover your Twitter Space.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">
<b>Step 5:</b> You can also choose to record the Space by toggling the
"Record Space" options so others can tune in later.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">
<b>Step 6:</b> Tap the "Start your Space" button to start a
Twitter Space.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 30pt; mso-outline-level: 2; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #4a4a4a;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">How To Join Twitter Spaces From
Mobile Devices?<o:p></o:p></span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Here's how to
join Twitter Space from your Android or iPhone device:<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">Step 1:</span></b><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"> When you open your
Twitter app, you will be able to see if someone you follow has started a Twitter Space at
the top of your timeline. If there aren't any there then go to the microphone icon at the bottom of your screen and you will be able to see the list of Spaces running and scheduled.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">
<b>Step 2:</b> Tap on it</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">
<b>Step 3:</b> Tap "Join this Space." Now, you will get added to
Space.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">
<b>Step 4:</b> You can request mic access from the host whenever you want
to speak.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;">
<b>Step 5:</b> Your mic will be turned on after the host accepts your
request.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="color: #4a4a4a;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">How To Join A Twitter Space On PC?</span></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">To join a
Twitter Space on PC, users rely on someone sharing a link to the Space. The
host can send a link to the Space by invitation, with a tweet, or with a DM
link.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: white; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 22.5pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #4a4a4a; letter-spacing: 0.25pt;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>To learn about Clubhouse and the differences with Twitter Spaces, I wrote some time ago few articles about it and here are the links to read them:</b></span></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="#"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Clubhouse; "This is Me And I'm Done Speaking", Before And After The 5th Of March</span></b></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="#"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Twitter Spaces vs Clubhouse; Is Twitter Spaces Already The New Clubhouse?</b></span></a></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5e5e5e; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; 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margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLiUToavc73qW4V5zKl0u1ue6yxOdnJgh4Pn0wcLEyj2JSRMH9PtjsrOCUamCbMy4xMSZa4eCDT54NfKvn3QfPzwS-PKiYnajNZvxfB_oXjW1BYuBdyHSoPWP0ZOXi7YqxK_cxkkeFd5N5zFYF3jw3LLJSs5lhK-HM5F3tZgNoft0A99X9_clFNxNE" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3648" data-original-width="5472" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjLiUToavc73qW4V5zKl0u1ue6yxOdnJgh4Pn0wcLEyj2JSRMH9PtjsrOCUamCbMy4xMSZa4eCDT54NfKvn3QfPzwS-PKiYnajNZvxfB_oXjW1BYuBdyHSoPWP0ZOXi7YqxK_cxkkeFd5N5zFYF3jw3LLJSs5lhK-HM5F3tZgNoft0A99X9_clFNxNE=w400-h266" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pexels</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Since 2014, with the release of Sarah Koenig’s Serial podcast, true crime has certainly been booming. Netflix’s Making a Murderer, HBO’s Mind over Murder, and even the notorious Tiger King most of us consumed over lockdown, have ushered in a fascination with the grotesque and macabre, the sinister and sickening elements of just what the depths of humanity are capable of. It’s a cultural phenomenon, clearly - and it’s one social media hasn’t escaped.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In recent months, attention has been drawn to an overlap in the true crime and make-up communities on YouTube and TikTok. Content creators - often young, white women - sit in front of a camera and regale their audience with the details of Jeffrey Dahmer’s freezer, or Ted Bundy’s charm, all while dolling themselves up with the latest Nyx palette and lending a casualness to their topic that often seems callous. </span></div></span></span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><i>So can I just tell you something really, really quickly? So for Halloween, I had two other ideas planned with, like, full body painting, you know, just trying to take it up a notch. And I was really overthinking it yesterday and I was like, I don’t know, because the next two stories I’m doing are like, pretty gruesome. And I just feel like painting my body while doing so, it doesn’t, I don’t know, I don’t know how I feel about it. You got to have boundaries somewhere. And I was just like, you know what, I don’t think, I should save it for, like, Tiktok or Instagram. </i></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><i>I’m just telling you that because if my makeup looks are gonna be a flop, it’s because I changed everything last minute. But hey, we’re here for the stories and the makeup is an afterthought. </i></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><i>…</i></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><i>So finally John would show his victims the finale, another trick he had, this one was called the rope trick. And the rope trick was essentially John tying a rope around their neck and then strangling them to death. It was no trick. He was murdering them. Yeah. And as John was performing this trick on different victims, he seemed to get progressively more and more aggressive. Some of them, he would just strangle with the rope, which is still awful. Not trying to say it’s not. For some of the victims, he would shove underwear deep into the victim’s throats, which would lead to them dying from asphyxiation before the rope trick came to play.</i></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><i>So yeah. It was a lot. It was a lot. So it went from John just sexually abusing and raping boys to now full-blown murder. Yup. He was loving it or something.</i> [Bailey Sarian’s <a href="https://youtu.be/qSmyimnMOBo">Devil In Disguise As A Killer Clown</a>, YouTube)</div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Perhaps obviously, many people have interrogated the morality behind this content. </span><a href="https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/y3dnz5/youtube-true-crime-makeup-tutorial" style="font-family: inherit;">Michelle Krasovitski</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> discussed it last year, interviewing both consumers and academics on the phenomenon, and encouraging content creators to focus more on the victim. That way, their content remains more sensitive to the victim and doesn’t sensationalise the killer. In the same year, </span><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/beauty/make-up-with-a-side-of-true-crime-is-the-latest-thing-20211124-p59bmt.html" style="font-family: inherit;">Samantha Selinger-Morris</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> wrote about the problem with the tone of make-up and murder videos, and an article by Hannah Jackson in </span><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-bizarre-and-unsettling-rise-of-true-crime-makeup-videos-on-youtube-and-tiktok" style="font-family: inherit;">The Daily Beast</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> pointed out the problem of racism in the true crime community in general, which carries through into these videos.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What worries me, though, is the monetisation element.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Creators on YouTube, with the level of subscribers that make-up and murder channels like Bailey Sarian, Brittney Vaughn, and Danielle Kirsty have, often are making rather a lot of money. Their traction on the platform opens them up to sponsorships, which require them to actively promote certain products in their videos (and YouTube advertising guidelines require them to be very upfront about this). Sponsorships can earn YouTubers a lot of money - between $10 to $50 per 1,000 views on a sponsored video - and so it makes sense why many content creators will take them on.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span></span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGSO-NYtoPxf2hiFpZng71MqhnwXIhIO1HU3buNfw_k6yfXXEDPZYq1wQbrXXZFKmorIfovwerBTzCsPeD-4iXaH-ykZ2_cJjsJOMJofqfCQrni68nMB_n2nzLADyD2J3ZOO0u9Bj7__bp71nfEdYU48TxnrMMlOzIEqIqvsCJoXYnnC-OlpleAglC/s1242/Screenshot%202022-08-05%20at%2009.12.29.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="718" data-original-width="1242" height="370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGSO-NYtoPxf2hiFpZng71MqhnwXIhIO1HU3buNfw_k6yfXXEDPZYq1wQbrXXZFKmorIfovwerBTzCsPeD-4iXaH-ykZ2_cJjsJOMJofqfCQrni68nMB_n2nzLADyD2J3ZOO0u9Bj7__bp71nfEdYU48TxnrMMlOzIEqIqvsCJoXYnnC-OlpleAglC/w640-h370/Screenshot%202022-08-05%20at%2009.12.29.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">YouTuber Survey, 2019 (MyWorkfromHomeMoney.com)<br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But what happens when you’re making thousands of dollars out of murder? </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Most people who’ve looked at this true crime and make-up boom have focused on its ‘founder-of-sorts’, Bailey Sarian, who, with 6.44 million subscribers on YouTube, is probably the biggest contributor to the genre. Sarian takes sponsorships - for example, her video on </span><a href="https://youtu.be/qSmyimnMOBo" style="font-family: inherit;">John Wayne Gacy</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> was sponsored by Express VPN, and her video on </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://youtu.be/gjySnrspD7E"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jeffrey D</span>ahmer</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> by Casetify - and we might argue that taking these sponsorships isn’t exactly morally-sound. Sarian is making rather a lot of money from the violent deaths of these men’s victims, and, even if she isn’t directly disrespecting these people who have died (as Sara Pepin, another makeup and murder creator, made clear in an </span><a href="https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/beauty/make-up-with-a-side-of-true-crime-is-the-latest-thing-20211124-p59bmt.html" style="font-family: inherit;">interview</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">), surely making money off of recounting their deaths and the lives of their murderers in such a flippant manner is disrespectful. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Sarian, however, seems to manage this monetisation element well. She keeps the ad part of the video separate, speaking about Express VPN in the John Wayne Gacy video before she dives into the subject matter, and Casetify before Dahmer. There’s at least some respect there; while it isn’t arguably ideal that any money at all is being made off of the pain of these victims, the explicit monetisation is being divorced from the content.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This doesn’t always happen. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hailey Elizabeth is a YouTuber whose content covers true crime (with the occasional sprinkle of a vlog). Her channel boasts 822k subscribers, and some of her most popular videos include deep-dives into the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ7zk4FbVpo" style="font-family: inherit;">alleged child abuse in family vlogging channels</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> (e.g. the Ace Family and 8 Passengers), the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPfZTXQLEjI" style="font-family: inherit;">killing spree of Christine Paolilla</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, and the </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BqAfsLbHJ4" style="font-family: inherit;">Rajneeshpuram cult</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> - all while doing her makeup. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">One of her most recent videos covers the </span><a href="https://youtu.be/8FbAtykhQzA" style="font-family: inherit;">Matthew De Gruchy case</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">. De Gruchy killed his mother and siblings after a domestic argument in 1996, and was in 2019 after spending 23 years in prison. Elizabeth titles her treatment of this case to maximise clicks - commonly known as ‘clickbait’:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJBgfcOyCOpVAubZ2dB6Xa-Svr874RZ-MSPgbr1pAZJnv4ZFGl9tFVBpa9AA6tjIGlPjHE6ZWzgoj2F6ARotDDA3ouOCzBSquN_YLJwJI7iwhFEyzPzb3ieq_LPZMgT86TPNxbN_wlm_w3_v-E0QHtqU4xQtgZV_GIdwIJaIg7vce07CGipqtjc3zc/s940/Screenshot%202022-08-05%20at%2009.12.54.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="614" data-original-width="940" height="261" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJBgfcOyCOpVAubZ2dB6Xa-Svr874RZ-MSPgbr1pAZJnv4ZFGl9tFVBpa9AA6tjIGlPjHE6ZWzgoj2F6ARotDDA3ouOCzBSquN_YLJwJI7iwhFEyzPzb3ieq_LPZMgT86TPNxbN_wlm_w3_v-E0QHtqU4xQtgZV_GIdwIJaIg7vce07CGipqtjc3zc/w400-h261/Screenshot%202022-08-05%20at%2009.12.54.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Screenshot from Hailey Elizabeth's <i>Murdered His Family After His Mom Wouldn't Let Him Use The Car: Matthew De Gruchy </i>(<span id="docs-internal-guid-b43d860c-7fff-a550-513f-2579fa6e1aae"><a href="https://youtu.be/8FbAtykhQzA" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-skip-ink: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">https://youtu.be/8FbAtykhQzA</span></a>)</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hailey Elizabeth tends to do sponsorship breaks in her videos, much like Bailey Sarian, but she does these in a slightly different way. Instead of setting the sponsorship element apart at the beginning of her video, like Sarian, Elizabeth inserts the sponsorship segments into the content of the video. In this video, we go from the search for a murder weapon and interviews to an advertisement for the mobile app Best Fiends. Then, we go from a discussion of the note found that proved the murder was premeditated, to an advert for life insurance - perhaps the most tasteless part of this video of all. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I just want to reiterate that for a second. In a video discussing the brutal murders of a woman and two of her children by a member of their family - the people shown below - Hailey Elizabeth, in her true crime discussion of the case, advertises a mobile game and life insurance. It’s almost beyond belief. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL27tJ1Leu2On7h9_5zWH5MX_f0D0PlFU8Sx4q2a4P84Pou8Tb-xfmRuUi6yaCY6S-nup8QiJ6BXIZx0qfEBBo7j7nPAIR3tIcCmIMPuc2adRDlsQJAaTVvUyLg0bct-T6aCB3JZNjdmJqk4gZ3oJhdVMR9cnKCPAHROKyNCuKJMGoTdXHlSFpkTqz/s1234/Screenshot%202022-08-05%20at%2009.13.11.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="616" data-original-width="1234" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjL27tJ1Leu2On7h9_5zWH5MX_f0D0PlFU8Sx4q2a4P84Pou8Tb-xfmRuUi6yaCY6S-nup8QiJ6BXIZx0qfEBBo7j7nPAIR3tIcCmIMPuc2adRDlsQJAaTVvUyLg0bct-T6aCB3JZNjdmJqk4gZ3oJhdVMR9cnKCPAHROKyNCuKJMGoTdXHlSFpkTqz/w400-h200/Screenshot%202022-08-05%20at%2009.13.11.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">NSW Police</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">While it may seem tasteless to many for anyone to be monetising off of the murders of other human beings, it is certainly even more tasteless for someone to advertise something as painfully morbid as life insurance while doing so. The fact that the mention of this life insurance is sandwiched within the case, right after the discussion of the murder weapon and De Gruchy’s murder ‘checklist’, which read, amongst other things, ‘cut somewhere with knife’, makes it all far worse. This is bizarre, and it certainly isn’t appropriate. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I found myself wondering how someone could justify monetising to such an extent - and through such advertising - and still sleep at night. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">So I reached out to Hailey. And, as of yet, I have received no response.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">And this is part of the problem. There seems to be a culture on the internet, amongst YouTube and TikTok true crime content of this specific type, of preventing criticism. A lot of female creators explain it as reclaiming true crime, as protecting themselves by knowing about what men can do to their (often female) victims - and this has been </span><a href="https://www.nylon.com/beauty/favorite-follow-bailey-sarian-youtube-makeup-artist-murder-mystery-makeup" style="font-family: inherit;">the explanation given</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> behind this boom in make-up and true crime, too. But that isn’t explanation enough.</span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">As </span><a href="https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/g5vgpw/criticising-true-crime-culture-isnt-sexist" style="font-family: inherit;">Charlotte Columbo</a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> has said: ‘you can’t justify your way out of accountability'. These women are, in bizarre fashion, doing themselves up in the latest Nyx eyeshadow and earning money off of the traumas of victims and their loved ones - loved ones who are, often, still alive. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There are correct ways to deal with true crime content. This isn’t one of them, and it’s time that these creators took some responsibility for the harm that they could be causing. Even if that’s so little responsibility as thinking before taking a sponsor on. </span></div></span></span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;">‘Alrighty. Have a good day.’ </div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Anna Coopey</span></i></b></div><div>4th year undergraduate student in Classics at The University of St Andrews in Scotland. Keen writer and researcher on a number of topics, varying from Modern Greek literature to revolutionary theory. </div><div>Twitter: <b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="https://twitter.com/anna_coopey" target="_blank">@anna_coopey</a></span></b> </div></div> <div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Works Cited:</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Why We Love to Watch YouTubers Discuss True Crime and Apply Their MakeUp (2021) from i-D - <a href="https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/y3dnz5/youtube-true-crime-makeup-tutorial">https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/y3dnz5/youtube-true-crime-makeup-tutorial</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Ethical Dilemma of Highbrow True Crime (2018) from Vulture - <a href="https://www.vulture.com/2018/08/true-crime-ethics.html">https://www.vulture.com/2018/08/true-crime-ethics.html</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Make-Up With A Side of True Crime Is The Latest Thing (2021) from SMH - <a href="https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/beauty/make-up-with-a-side-of-true-crime-is-the-latest-thing-20211124-p59bmt.html">https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/beauty/make-up-with-a-side-of-true-crime-is-the-latest-thing-20211124-p59bmt.html</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">YouTuber Bailey Sarian On Murders, Mysteries, Makeup, and More (2021) from Nylon - <a href="https://www.nylon.com/beauty/favorite-follow-bailey-sarian-youtube-makeup-artist-murder-mystery-makeup">https://www.nylon.com/beauty/favorite-follow-bailey-sarian-youtube-makeup-artist-murder-mystery-makeup</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Bizarre and Unsettling Rise of True-Crime Makeup Videos on YouTube and TikTok (2021) from The Daily Beast - <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-bizarre-and-unsettling-rise-of-true-crime-makeup-videos-on-youtube-and-tiktok">https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-bizarre-and-unsettling-rise-of-true-crime-makeup-videos-on-youtube-and-tiktok</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Ethical Dilemmas of the True Crime Genre (2022) - <a href="https://scholarworks.uark.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1071&context=mktguht">https://scholarworks.uark.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1071&context=mktguht</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Criticising True Crime Culture Isn’t Sexist (2022) from i-D - <a href="https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/g5vgpw/criticising-true-crime-culture-isnt-sexist">https://i-d.vice.com/en_uk/article/g5vgpw/criticising-true-crime-culture-isnt-sexist</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Murdered his Family after his Mom Wouldn’t Let Him use the Car: Matthew De Gruchy (2022) - <a href="https://youtu.be/8FbAtykhQzA">https://youtu.be/8FbAtykhQzA</a> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Devil In Disguise As A Killer Clown - John Wayne Gacy Was INSANE | Mystery & Makeup Bailey Sarian (2021) - <a href="https://youtu.be/qSmyimnMOBo">https://youtu.be/qSmyimnMOBo</a> </span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Anna Coopeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12617339904914819703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812126921403364241.post-6621685539642862752022-07-27T23:34:00.019+00:002022-08-07T20:52:10.463+00:00When Nano and Micro Social Media Influencers Mix with Politics <span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbdBA0w_Qa-EfZFrPSJNGgSJvQYkglr2_dy9I5aLJvEsNPbUYfN-p1hLzjA3-8HKRUeTZ8PVCHLAs6zxFvMPvLp2X48p79-Zz2rCJpBkhCdt69vqF3NUdZIZ3E0qLfNNtLq4ZZz53auXOf3IC20ZXe_KYXDK-8uiRxZuLJ7SO1AYRzOtDxGpzSGE7Klg/s604/pol%20inf%20pic%201%20.jpg" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbdBA0w_Qa-EfZFrPSJNGgSJvQYkglr2_dy9I5aLJvEsNPbUYfN-p1hLzjA3-8HKRUeTZ8PVCHLAs6zxFvMPvLp2X48p79-Zz2rCJpBkhCdt69vqF3NUdZIZ3E0qLfNNtLq4ZZz53auXOf3IC20ZXe_KYXDK-8uiRxZuLJ7SO1AYRzOtDxGpzSGE7Klg/w418-h209/pol%20inf%20pic%201%20.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"> Source: <a href="https://transparencyliveshere.com/2021/01/20/do-politics-leverage-local-social-media-influencers/#/" style="color: #954f72; font-family: -webkit-standard, serif; text-align: start;">transparencyliveshere.com</a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Who do you think of when you imagine a social media influencer?</b> Perhaps a beauty mogul with five million followers who fills your feed with discount codes and 24-hour documentation of their latest stay in Dubai’s finest hotel? Our stereotypical vision of an influencer does often resemble this airbrushed luxury-loving brand ambassador with perfect teeth, but <b>an increasing number of lesser-known influencers are choosing to blur the boundaries</b> and make their way into the political realm. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How much influence should these influencers have? Many social media influencers, politicians and journalists alike have engaged in both political simplification and distributing misinformation. However, while many politicians have become bastions of hypocrisy by making a career out of false promises and spreading misinformation, their large platforms and follower bases ensure that <b>their public actions are usually seen by the many, rather than the few. </b></span><a href="https://www.findyourinfluencer.co.uk/blog/different-types-of-social-media-influencer" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Nano-influencers</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span></b>can have anywhere between 1K to 10K followers, whereas </span><a href="https://www.findyourinfluencer.co.uk/blog/different-types-of-social-media-influencer" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">micro-influencers</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span></b>can have up to 50K followers: with their smaller platforms allowing personal relationships with their followers, <b>they are rarely the subject of intense examination. </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR9NlqIdUatOq0u6enHxqeZKzjoFNKKjd3NHtGXFmyr0P57Jv-WnXPhLye0jeC4zy-oEDrs4hSvhbedWh4GebG51g4QWSLLF62-AWZSGJkQLwGtvlKo0hIEBZm6ekdZnQuEfLYCrLCmV-KSDka2w9Gru3UipC3NBiidGgYAba5dM2xFUnW9LnRD926zQ/s2245/B65EB153-E342-4FDE-961E-C8C1E04C962F.PNG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2245" data-original-width="1588" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjR9NlqIdUatOq0u6enHxqeZKzjoFNKKjd3NHtGXFmyr0P57Jv-WnXPhLye0jeC4zy-oEDrs4hSvhbedWh4GebG51g4QWSLLF62-AWZSGJkQLwGtvlKo0hIEBZm6ekdZnQuEfLYCrLCmV-KSDka2w9Gru3UipC3NBiidGgYAba5dM2xFUnW9LnRD926zQ/w283-h400/B65EB153-E342-4FDE-961E-C8C1E04C962F.PNG" width="283" /></a></div><br />More influencers are beginning to engage in traditional political processes, as well as specific </span><a href="https://socialmediaandpolitics.org/social-media-influencers-politics-environment-covid-misinformation-schmuck/" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">cause-related advocacy</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">. Not only are influencers urging their followers to vote in upcoming elections, but they also <b>promote the importance for social equality and the fight against social injustice.</b> Following the murder of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin in 2020, celebrities and influencers alike used their platforms to distribute sources of information surrounding the importance of </span><a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Black Lives Matter</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"> (BLM). Influencers were urged by their followers to use their platforms to spread the message, and to stop posting their usual content. </span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPtJhV5AIJ6H57U2NZceNnUfwro_4gU01sz3Mkd2OsrQtqrVOfB6APXFROhuUXLUIeVjjVvSjFsP-x9EyvFI3-oiX-_10inBdBuqolRaso_0Z3oF3-ZISthNxco9sWhOVKllxWd6yo-Ss5hiixlLDt-Ra6_sEVwDNQ97Fo2-vAZnd6PqMyU1cHQHLwjA/s614/pol%20inf%20pic%203%20.jpg" style="font-family: inherit; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPtJhV5AIJ6H57U2NZceNnUfwro_4gU01sz3Mkd2OsrQtqrVOfB6APXFROhuUXLUIeVjjVvSjFsP-x9EyvFI3-oiX-_10inBdBuqolRaso_0Z3oF3-ZISthNxco9sWhOVKllxWd6yo-Ss5hiixlLDt-Ra6_sEVwDNQ97Fo2-vAZnd6PqMyU1cHQHLwjA/w400-h299/pol%20inf%20pic%203%20.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: start;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/rusabnb/" style="color: #954f72;">Instagram.com</a></span></span><span style="text-align: start;"></span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">We saw millions of black squares in the name of #BlackoutTuesday, and a carefully curated list of videos detailing the ins and outs of systemic racism. While innumerable BLM posts remain, their advocacy for BLM was certainly short-lived. Soon enough, they returned to distributing their usual content. </span><b style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Black lives still matter, yet BLM content is no longer on trend. </b><span style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;">Of course, carefully choosing which matters of injustice to post about is not exclusive to social media influencers. Many politicians also paint themselves as advocates against the permeation of injustice, but also pick and choose which issues would be most beneficial to highlight for their public profile. </span></span></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>However, both nano and micro-influencers do not face the same level of criticism as political figures</b>, despite acting as informants for their followers. There are a multitude of critical newspapers and opposing politicians waiting to expose political figures for their blatant hypocrisy and simplification of certain issues. </span></div></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">With a significant proportion of the Gen-z population using social media to keep up with current affairs, it is concerning to know that many of their role models treat cause-related advocacy as a part-time hobby. <b>After Molly Mae’s <span style="color: #674ea7;">‘</span></b></span><a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a38695152/molly-mae-24-hours-in-a-day/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">we all have the same 24 hours in a day</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">’ </span>comment, the backlash she received was exponential.</b> Her Thatcherite </span><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/molly-mae-hague-criticised-poverty-b1987817.html" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>‘tone deaf’</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> statement was pulled apart by the British public. However, it is much more difficult to address the potential political implications of posts by nano and micro-influencers with much smaller follower bases. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On a much more sinister scale, <b>politicians are beginning to favour lesser-known influencers over other forms of advertisement to further their political agenda.</b> During the recent 2022 general election in the Philippines, nano and micro- influencers became the essential political marketing mechanism for Bongbong Marcos’s leadership campaign. Opting to avoid professional journalists, Marcos set his sights on <b>paying smaller social media influencers to endorse his campaign to their loyal and impressionable followers. </b></span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4j7JdhmiN-asCm9W6PPiHTEX9JMbDmDelQmy7Grb5Z8YRx_k81dNbeuUPqMuw6KhbvcXQKOG8-aeAzHVru603JqIb0MHx0Fa96EBgp1IvqtEotjUymFHv-9_vYaGz5ZhteofC5l5MZip7l-hrks5aHdeMdpDM7rG_NhE7w7P8ARNcwt6_5BGQNEN9-Q/w400-h299/pol%20inf%20pic%204%20.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bongbong-marcos-tiktok-philippines-election-2022-5?r=US&IR=T" style="color: #954f72; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: start;">businessinsider.com</a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">According to </span><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bongbong-marcos-tiktok-philippines-election-2022-5?r=US&IR=T" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">JM Lanuza</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">, <b>“since the influencers have smaller audiences, it's harder to track" their activity</b>, which made it easier for Marcos to control the political narrative and rewrite his family’s dictatorial political past. In the midst of the Covid-19 Pandemic, </span><a href="https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-technology-joe-biden-social-media-business-a2992b2881fcef68e1144efa7b869844" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">US states of Colorado and Oklahoma</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> paid micro-influencers to urge their followers to get vaccinated. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">On a global level, with nano and micro-influencers benefitting from their ability to personally connect with their smaller follower base, many are swayed by the financial advantages that accompany the spread of partisan political messages. But, overall, it is the loyal social media users that are the manipulated victims in this political charade. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Young people are engaged with the </span><a href="https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/its-time-politics-took-social-influencers-seriously/1431386" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">"political process and political causes, but not political parties."</span></b></a> </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUDD8uZxI-6S4-oMjbyl7pXaeDwv1CTv2JS3STTiqxqPAGHoiUSp8r9zKaDdSY1_7Gb1CbNey9Ohjp3ssl5wumDrHmaV-dTyIo_mJtJUy-vWr_XmNDc1ItBUAq8gt6lkbvdFMTbuYYNrRYgL53CqNEPr1tDKoP4DL0N8AkiIbdiS1BeeDneTAGAcsCpw/w503-h193/pol%20inf%20pic%205.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="503" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="https://www.ypulse.com/article/2020/07/20/gen-z-millennials-have-very-different-news-sources/" style="color: #954f72; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: start;">ypulse.com</a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUDD8uZxI-6S4-oMjbyl7pXaeDwv1CTv2JS3STTiqxqPAGHoiUSp8r9zKaDdSY1_7Gb1CbNey9Ohjp3ssl5wumDrHmaV-dTyIo_mJtJUy-vWr_XmNDc1ItBUAq8gt6lkbvdFMTbuYYNrRYgL53CqNEPr1tDKoP4DL0N8AkiIbdiS1BeeDneTAGAcsCpw/s604/pol%20inf%20pic%205.png" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">With </span><a href="https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/04/07/pew-social-media-survey-facebook-youtube-gen-z-instagram-snapchat-tiktok/7107392002/" style="font-family: inherit;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">71%</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> of Gen-Zers using Instagram to obtain news, this bodes well for the </span><a href="https://thesmallbusinessblog.net/how-many-influencers-are-there-on-instagram/" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">500,000</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;"> </span></b>influencers that permeate the platform. A poll conducted by </span><a href="https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/teenagers-trust-influencers-tell-truth-24268578" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Survation</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> found that <b>35% of UK Gen-Z social media users see social media as their primary news source</b>, so it is unsurprising that some people are calling for influencers to be welcomed into the political sphere. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Survation poll also found that a larger proportion of the Gen-Z respondents argued that <b>influencers are <i>more</i> trustworthy than politicians.</b> With the </span><a href="https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/politics/955416/timeline-downing-street-lockdown-party-scandal" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Partygate</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> scandal that has gripped UK headlines, who am I to suggest that politicians are more trustworthy? Yet, when lesser-known influencers are hypocritical and scandalous, they are less likely to face the scathing commentary unleashed by international press teams. They may not have as many followers, but <b>nano and micro-influencers combined have the potential to influence a considerable number of social media users.</b> </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Social media influencers do possess a significant amount</b></span><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b> of power.</b> Imagine if every influencer suddenly decided to increase and expand their content, and use their power for good? After German influencer </span><a href="https://www.instagram.com/rezo/" style="font-family: inherit;">Rezo</a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> decided to use his previously apolitical platform to target the Christian Democratic Union party for their lack of concern for environmental issues, </span><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17524032.2022.2027801" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>over 70 YouTubers</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b> joined together to highlight how conservative parties were failing to take the actions necessary to combat climate change.</b> We have witnessed what social media influencers are capable of and how they do possess the power to push political narrative in a positive direction. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3onRka_G5Nm2Aj6qWlS-vwD1RVp5wsIiBZKXwHkGeFihZbxv0l_I89aMgJjmtryRA3R_v6v01X82SI__zlHpJ4RJup44N16ZPPTl47Zaoah2-eB9_FZKMkYADGjw6eprb_Do0UqCb4SufOfeKVUFmCX34TTWhAZf3_9B8FG40OmS0xyAkALYLt9t_9g/w400-h268/pol%20inf%20pic%206%20.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="400" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Source: <a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/03/generation-z-sustainability-lifestyle-buying-decisions/" style="color: #954f72; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: start;">weforum.org</a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><o:p></o:p></p></td></tr></tbody></table><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></span></div><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In a world defined by social media interaction, one thing is for certain: <b>the line between influencers and politics will continue to be blurred.</b> All generations are susceptible to believing fake news, yet more than </span><a href="https://www.marketingcharts.com/digital/social-media-117046" style="font-family: inherit;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">1 in 4 Gen-Zers worldwide</span></b></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> follow social media influencers. Therefore, they are <b>particularly susceptible</b> to believing information that has not been fact-checked or received a proportionate level of constructive backlash. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We should not attempt to deny social media influencers of their right to freedom of speech or legislate against experimentation with political content, but </span><b style="font-family: inherit;">we can encourage their followers to remain vigilant</b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> and not take everything they witness in the fast-paced sphere of </span>social<span style="font-family: inherit;"> media at face value. </span></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Lucy Thomas </span></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Lucy is an undergraduate BSc Politics and International Relations student at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research interests include social stratification and intersectional feminism. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit; orphans: 2; text-align: justify; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><o:p></o:p></p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucy-thomas-b598ab200/" style="text-align: start; white-space: normal;"><span style="color: #674ea7;">LinkedIn: /in/lucy-thomas</span></a> </span><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;">Sources: <br /><br /><a href="https://www.findyourinfluencer.co.uk/blog/different-types-of-social-media-influencer">https://www.findyourinfluencer.co.uk/blog/different-types-of-social-media-influencer</a><br /><a href="https://socialmediaandpolitics.org/social-media-influencers-politics-environment-covid-misinformation-schmuck/">https://socialmediaandpolitics.org/social-media-influencers-politics-environment-covid-misinformation-schmuck/</a><br /><a href="https://blacklivesmatter.com/">https://blacklivesmatter.com/</a><br /><a href="https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a38695152/molly-mae-24-hours-in-a-day/">https://www.cosmopolitan.com/uk/reports/a38695152/molly-mae-24-hours-in-a-day/</a><br /><a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/molly-mae-hague-criticised-poverty-b1987817.html">https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/molly-mae-hague-criticised-poverty-b1987817.html</a><br /><a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/bongbong-marcos-tiktok-philippines-election-2022-5?r=US&IR=T">https://www.businessinsider.com/bongbong-marcos-tiktok-philippines-election-2022-5?r=US&IR=T</a><br /><a href="https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/its-time-politics-took-social-influencers-seriously/1431386">https://www.campaignlive.co.uk/article/its-time-politics-took-social-influencers-seriously/1431386</a><br /><a href="https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/04/07/pew-social-media-survey-facebook-youtube-gen-z-instagram-snapchat-tiktok/7107392002/">https://eu.usatoday.com/story/tech/2021/04/07/pew-social-media-survey-facebook-youtube-gen-z-instagram-snapchat-tiktok/7107392002/</a><br /><a href="https://thesmallbusinessblog.net/how-many-influencers-are-there-on-instagram/">https://thesmallbusinessblog.net/how-many-influencers-are-there-on-instagram/</a><br /><a href="https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/teenagers-trust-influencers-tell-truth-24268578">https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/teenagers-trust-influencers-tell-truth-24268578</a><br /><a href="https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/politics/955416/timeline-downing-street-lockdown-party-scandal">https://www.theweek.co.uk/news/politics/955416/timeline-downing-street-lockdown-party-scandal</a><br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/rezo/">https://www.instagram.com/rezo/</a><br /><a href="https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17524032.2022.2027801">https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17524032.2022.2027801</a><br /><a href="https://www.marketingcharts.com/digital/social-media-117046">https://www.marketingcharts.com/digital/social-media-117046</a><br /><span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="https://www.ypulse.com/article/2020/07/20/gen-z-millennials-have-very-different-news-sources/">https://www.ypulse.com/article/2020/07/20/gen-z-millennials-have-very-different-news-sources/</a></span><br /><a href="https://transparencyliveshere.com/2021/01/20/do-politics-leverage-local-social-media-influencers/#/">https://transparencyliveshere.com/2021/01/20/do-politics-leverage-local-social-media-influencers/#/</a><br /><a href="https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/03/generation-z-sustainability-lifestyle-buying-decisions/">https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/03/generation-z-sustainability-lifestyle-buying-decisions/</a><br /><a href="https://www.instagram.com/rusabnb/">https://www.instagram.com/rusabnb/</a><br /><a href="https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-technology-joe-biden-social-media-business-a2992b2881fcef68e1144efa7b869844">https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-technology-joe-biden-social-media-business-a2992b2881fcef68e1144efa7b869844</a></span><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW7965768 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; 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font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Twitter is a big deal. With 396.5 million users as of writing, 206 million accessing the platform every single day, and 8.85% of the social media population using it, it’s perhaps no surprise that academics use it as well. They tweet about their research, resources, articles; they provide advice, answer questions, re-post job openings – and they complain about a sector that is, in many ways, crashing and burning in the UK.</span></div></span><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{bdadf4b8-8a59-49a3-a154-b2f9b7e64b6e}{107}" paraid="19428117" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{bdadf4b8-8a59-49a3-a154-b2f9b7e64b6e}{107}" paraid="19428117" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{bdadf4b8-8a59-49a3-a154-b2f9b7e64b6e}{111}" paraid="537678442" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">As a student and researcher with </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The University of St Andrews, I’m relatively active in the Twittersphere when it comes to academia. I’ve found friends, collaborators, and colleagues on the platform, and have had my eyes opened to so many new research areas and ideas that the result has led to a very mind-boggling list of dissertation ideas for my final year.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">It is a weird and wonderful world,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and it deserves our attention. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">If you </span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW25910976 BCX0" href="https://medium.com/@smojarad/a-beginners-guide-to-academic-twitter-f483dae86597" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" target="_blank"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">want to join ‘academic twitter’</span></b></span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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Why use it? </span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{bdadf4b8-8a59-49a3-a154-b2f9b7e64b6e}{205}" paraid="977251773" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{bdadf4b8-8a59-49a3-a154-b2f9b7e64b6e}{205}" paraid="977251773" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{bdadf4b8-8a59-49a3-a154-b2f9b7e64b6e}{209}" paraid="1700079665" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The main </span><span class="NormalTextRun CommentStart SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">benefit </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">would be the </span></span><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">ease of connection</span><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> that Twitter offers to the academic community. This was thrown into sharp relief during the Covid-19 pandemic, when in-person conferences and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">general departmental chat was somewhat hampered by Teams and Zoom getting in the way. Academic communities were disrupted – and this led to various recommendations for academics to join the Twitter community, to try and preserve the open conversation and networking that is so important to academia.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{bdadf4b8-8a59-49a3-a154-b2f9b7e64b6e}{229}" paraid="548007200" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{bdadf4b8-8a59-49a3-a154-b2f9b7e64b6e}{229}" paraid="548007200" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{bdadf4b8-8a59-49a3-a154-b2f9b7e64b6e}{233}" paraid="666341821" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Another benefit would be the opportunity it offers to </span><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">manage expectations</span><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">. Academia is tricky game to play, and many papers have been written discussing the mental health crisis amongst academics. In 2017, 37% of academics identified as having a mental health disorder, and 43% of academics had symptoms of depression, anxiety, and burnout (article </span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW25910976 BCX0" href="https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2022.html" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: text;" target="_blank"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">here</span></b></span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">).</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> The culture of research and academia is ‘hyper-competitive’, with strong pressure on academics to continually push themselves</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. This only contributes to the stress induced by the nature of the job, which has been convincingly described by </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">one lecturer I spoke to as ‘five jobs in one’</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{bdadf4b8-8a59-49a3-a154-b2f9b7e64b6e}{254}" paraid="1035463778" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{bdadf4b8-8a59-49a3-a154-b2f9b7e64b6e}{254}" paraid="1035463778" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{3}" paraid="1969549880" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The academic community on Twitter discuss the difficulties of academic life, and there are various hashtags and drives aimed at encouraging open conversation around academic mental health, and encouraging academics to take a break</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and look after their mental health. </span></span>
</span></p><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Years ago I decided to stop worrying about trying to prove myself to others. I was initially concerned about the effect this would have but it's been one of the best decisions I've ever made. The biggest change was a massive improvement in my mental health.</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">— Academic Chatter (@AcademicChatter) <a href="https://twitter.com/AcademicChatter/status/1546153942182150150?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 10, 2022</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span></center><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">
<span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><p></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{11}" paraid="988991706" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{11}" paraid="988991706" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"></span></p><span color="windowtext" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> </span><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Perhaps the greatest benefit from an outside perspective, too, has been </span><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-GB">the opportunity for students to understand that academics are real people too</span><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. We’re all guilty of treating our teachers like they’re superhuman – whether that’s getting annoyed when thirty practice exams aren’t returned the next </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">day, or</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> being unnecessarily critical when they make mistakes – and</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, at least for me, academic Twitter has allowed me to consciously stop myself from doing so. When you see the kinds of tweets your lecturers like (cats, Soviet visuals, or memes about Alexander the Great), you’re really pushed to see that these are real people, just like the rest of us.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-family: inherit; font-size: large; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{37}" paraid="1798841086" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{37}" paraid="1798841086" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{41}" paraid="258382336" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Clearly, </span><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">there are sizeable benefits to academic Twitter</span><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> – and even more than I’ve mentioned here. But is it all rosy?</span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{51}" paraid="28197482" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{55}" paraid="1792832921" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">The answer is, of course, no.</span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{61}" paraid="2100609808" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{65}" paraid="108618374" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">One problem is the </span><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">tricky balance between professionalism and personality</span><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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Twitter is a social media platform, which, in its nature, arguably encourages some personal force behind the content that you post on it. But if you’re using Twitter for academia, it might be tricky to do that. </span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW25910976 BCX0" href="https://twitter.com/elizabethmvoss" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: text;" target="_blank"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun CommentStart SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Elizabeth Voss</b></span></span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">,</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> the social media manager for the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, is quoted by Evitts Dickinson (2019) as saying just that: </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">‘The weird thing about Twitter is that it walks the line between professional and personal. You can have a professional presence, but it’s also you on there.’</span><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> There’s an argument that, if you want to be taken seriously as an academic, you should keep your Twitter strictly to academia</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> – and that can’t be easy for everyone.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{65}" paraid="108618374" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{65}" paraid="108618374" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{94}" paraid="1661929556" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Another is </span><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">the nature of your research</span><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">. If you’re tweeting about niche interpretations of Bergson or Nietzsche, you’re unlikely to get much backlash. However, if you’re tweeting about political events, or systemic racism, or even vaccine efficiency, you’re going to get more of a backlash from the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">general public</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> no matter your academic credentials.</span></span>
</span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{94}" paraid="1661929556" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{94}" paraid="1661929556" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span></p><center><blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p dir="ltr" lang="en"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Forcibly separating parents from children has a history; it is our history. <a href="https://t.co/1OgxeCLF8V">pic.twitter.com/1OgxeCLF8V</a></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">— Martha S. Jones, JD, PhD (@marthasjones_) <a href="https://twitter.com/marthasjones_/status/1000276603195322373?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 26, 2018</a></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> <script async="" charset="utf-8" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js"></script></span></center><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">
</span><p></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{94}" paraid="1661929556" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{94}" paraid="1661929556" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"></p><span><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></span><p></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{114}" paraid="639800925" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Johns Hopkins University historian </span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW25910976 BCX0" href="https://twitter.com/marthasjones_?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: text;" target="_blank"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Dr Martha S James</span></b></span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> found this after she </span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW25910976 BCX0" href="https://twitter.com/marthasjones_/status/1000276603195322373" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: text;" target="_blank"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>tweeted about the slave trade in 2018</b></span></span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">, in response to the forced separation of children from their families at the US-Mexico border by the Trump administration. The backlash got so bad that she ended up seriously considering leaving Twitter.</span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{131}" paraid="1313774008" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{131}" paraid="1313774008" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{135}" paraid="1309644030" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Then, </span><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">the dreaded word: theft</span><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">. The danger is always there that, if you tweet too freely about what you’re working on, someone might just take a fancy to it and poach it right out of your hands. You might have the proof of the tweet, but that’s it – and that’s not enough. </span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{145}" paraid="1097594500" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; 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text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Clearly, we can see that </span><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">academic Twitter has its ups-and-downs</span><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{167}" paraid="255377944" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">And the technical problems of the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">profession aren’t the only thing that makes academic Twitter so difficult. There is also the question of morality to consider.</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{175}" paraid="149152810" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{175}" paraid="149152810" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{179}" paraid="436542582" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Many academics became very concerned about the reports of Elon Musk potentially buying out Twitter</span><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"> earlier in 2022, and, although this has not manifested – indeed, Musk is actually being sued by Twitter after pulling out of the deal - it led to some interesting conversations about just how deeply Twitter has become ingrained in academic life. In his </span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW25910976 BCX0" href="https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/05/03/leave-adapt-resist-time-to-rethink-academic-twitter/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: text;" target="_blank"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun CommentStart SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>May article</b></span></span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">, </span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW25910976 BCX0" href="https://twitter.com/DrMarkCarrigan?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: text;" target="_blank"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Mark Carrigan</b></span></span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">has written about how Twitter has become something that universities seem to expect from their staff – and how Musk buying the platform out has led to some interesting ethical conversations about the use of the social media platform. </span></span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; 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-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{205}" paraid="1775916958" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun EmptyTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"></span><a class="Hyperlink SCXW25910976 BCX0" href="https://twitter.com/cwarzel?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; user-select: text;" target="_blank"><span class="TextRun Underlined SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: underline; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Charlie </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-charstyle="Hyperlink" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Warzel</span></b></span></span></a><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, a media analyst, considered three suggestions for what might happen after Musk’s takeover. Perhaps, in the (worryingly) best scenario, the tools Twitter uses to prevent trolling and harassment would be removed, and those who are members of any minority group would face the hateful comments that they have escaped for the past few years. The </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">worst scenario, then, would see Twitter transformed into something like its right-wing alternative, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">Parler</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, where banned accounts could be restored for ‘free speech’. This understandably led to many academics considering deleting their Twitter accounts</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> and </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">migrating </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">to another platform (such as Discord).</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" color="windowtext" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{228}" paraid="490280672" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{228}" paraid="490280672" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{232}" paraid="870643071" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">But it isn’t that simple. As said above, </span><span class="TextRun MacChromeBold SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; font-weight: bold; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">Twitter has become a very important part of academic life, and despite its problems, it does have clear benefits</span><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB">, as discussed previously. Moving the community so quickly from Twitter would also risk splitting it up, and the assumption that there would be one alternative to Twitter that works for everyone is a problematic one at best.</span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{b775a284-6235-46af-90d0-dec5651cdb6e}{242}" paraid="1139179926" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; 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background-position: 0% 100%; background-repeat: repeat-x; border-bottom: 1px solid transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">So</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> it seems quite simple. While Twitter has its flaws, it has</span><span class="NormalTextRun CommentStart SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> done manifest good </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">for the academic community, and created a space that is both professionally and personally beneficial to those within it. </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">The positives outweigh the </span><span class="NormalTextRun CommentStart SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">negatives</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;">, and now, as Mr Musk retreats into the distance from the £44 billion takeover he promised mere months ago, it looks like academic Twitter is here to stay.</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span><span class="EOP CommentStart SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{7d25e49c-a2d2-45b9-9128-f519cff74920}{16}" paraid="1975088856" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="TextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{7d25e49c-a2d2-45b9-9128-f519cff74920}{16}" paraid="1975088856" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span class="EOP SCXW25910976 BCX0" data-ccp-props="{"335551550":6,"335551620":6}" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 20.5042px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; user-select: text;"><br /></span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW25910976 BCX0" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; user-select: text;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW25910976 BCX0" paraeid="{7d25e49c-a2d2-45b9-9128-f519cff74920}{21}" paraid="201158514" style="-webkit-tap-highlight-color: transparent; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; font-kerning: none; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; user-select: text; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b style="font-size: medium;"><i><span style="color: #990000;">Anna Coopey</span></i></b></p><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">4th year undergraduate student in Classics at The University of St Andrews in Scotland. Keen writer and researcher on a number of topics, varying from Modern Greek literature to revolutionary theory. </div><div style="font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">Twitter: <b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="https://twitter.com/anna_coopey" target="_blank">@anna_coopey</a></span></b> </div></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><br /><br />Works Cited:<br /><br />Leave, Adapt, Resist – Time to Rethink Academic Twitter? (2022) - <a href="#">https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/05/03/leave-adapt-resist-time-to-rethink-academic-twitter/</a><br />The Promise and Peril of Academia Wading Into Twitter (2019) - <a href="#">https://hub.jhu.edu/magazine/2019/spring/more-academics-turn-to-twitter/</a><br />The 10 Commandments of Academic Twitter (2022) - <a href="#">https://www.timeshighereducation.com/campus/10-commandments-academic-twitter</a><br />The Weird and Wonderful World of Academic Twitter (2015) - <a href="#">https://www.timeshighereducation.com/weird-and-wonderful-world-academic-twitter</a><br />The Young Academic’s Twitter Conundrum (2017) - <a href="#">https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/05/the-young-academics-twitter-conundrum/525924/</a><br />Understanding Mental Health in the Research Environment (2017) - <a href="#">https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR2022.html</a><br />#AcademicTwitter - <a href="#">https://www.apa.org/science/about/psa/2020/05/academic-twitter#:~:text=Academic%20Twitter%20is%20a%20powerful,with%20colleagues%20across%20the%20globe</a></span> Anna Coopeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12617339904914819703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812126921403364241.post-68388453887170138382022-07-19T22:55:00.001+00:002022-08-05T10:50:32.015+00:00LinkedIn and Instagram: Formidable Counterparts in a World Defined by Toxic Comparison <p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW211111547 BCX9" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-style: italic; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 23.7417px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW211111547 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">LinkedIn</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW211111547 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> for</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW211111547 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW211111547 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">professionally </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW211111547 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">self-</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW211111547 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">conscious can be like</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW211111547 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW211111547 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Instagram</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW211111547 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> for the </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW211111547 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">materially insecure</span></span><span class="EOP SCXW211111547 BCX9" data-ccp-props="{}" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; font-variant-ligatures: normal; line-height: 23.7417px; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; widows: 2;"> </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipoytPpDiU6pPoevecoFMaI7DpjaVfismT6aoAGxcO4EQTBPq9_evDhm-rQWWhrFpoKJTGaiv4hRk3rsV_iF0zrcsaR3QqERv8Q2y08a3dSkV-Myg4dobGK5cjNJlek4nV2UWagtmWxH3jtjm1ZUGh4zrvbduhaU5A3_j-XlcwbBIIMqOOEEqawXeXEw/s1200/IMG_0080.JPG" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1200" height="332" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipoytPpDiU6pPoevecoFMaI7DpjaVfismT6aoAGxcO4EQTBPq9_evDhm-rQWWhrFpoKJTGaiv4hRk3rsV_iF0zrcsaR3QqERv8Q2y08a3dSkV-Myg4dobGK5cjNJlek4nV2UWagtmWxH3jtjm1ZUGh4zrvbduhaU5A3_j-XlcwbBIIMqOOEEqawXeXEw/w332-h332/IMG_0080.JPG" width="332" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Sources: <a href="https://www.pinterest.co.uk/pin/203928689364838958/" style="text-align: start;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;">pinterest.co.uk</span></a>,<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/02/wolf-of-wall-street-malaysian-money-trail-fbi-investigation" style="color: #954f72; text-align: start;"> </a><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/apr/02/wolf-of-wall-street-malaysian-money-trail-fbi-investigation" style="text-align: start;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;">theguardian.com</span></a></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><u1:p style="text-align: start;"></u1:p><span style="text-align: start;"></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; margin: 0cm;"><o:p></o:p></p><div style="text-align: justify;">Instagram, a photo-video sharing platform surpassing <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/325587/instagram-global-age-group/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">one billion</span></b></a> users, is the globally renowned <b>facilitator for self-expression</b>. While restaurateurs use Instagram to debut their culinary exploits and avid backpackers show us their most daring adventures, A-listers use it to flaunt their million-dollar mansions in LA, Dubai, or even both. Following closely behind, LinkedIn is used by over <a href="https://about.linkedin.com " target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">830 million</span></b></a> workers worldwide. If you search any individual on LinkedIn, you will most likely come away knowing their entire professional history, as well as the grade they achieved in their History A-Level over 10 years ago. Although <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/273505/global-linkedin-age-group/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>59%</b></span></a> of LinkedIn users are age 25 to 34, compared to just <a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/273505/global-linkedin-age-group/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>2.9%</b></span></a> being over 55, an increasing number of <a href="https://www.thedrum.com/news/2021/11/15/new-linkedin-data-shows-how-gen-z-recalibrating-the-norms-work" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">gen-Z users</span></b></a> view LinkedIn as their number one networking tool. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Both platforms function to ensure that <b>people can scrutinize either the aesthetic or professional lives</b> of their colleagues, employers, or even the attractive barista that makes your macchiato every morning: the options are truly endless. Instagram clearly has its many advantages, but media coverage of its more sinister side is certainly not lacking. Many influencers primarily use Instagram to tackle the endemic low self-esteem it has arguably exacerbated, but can the same be said for LinkedIn? As with Instagram, LinkedIn functions to both unite and inspire its users, but can also induce self-loathing in the process. Posts about accepting failure and overcoming obstacles are certainly present on the platform, yet there are few individuals that dedicate their profiles to the sole promotion of self-love. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Are there any positives? </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Both Instagram and LinkedIn were certainly not founded upon the desire to promote self-deprecation or low self-esteem. In fact, both platforms are extremely credible in their ability to <b>unite like-minded individuals brimming with ambition</b>. An Instagram search for<b><span style="color: #674ea7;"> <span style="color: #674ea7;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/explore/tags/pride/?hl=en" target="_blank">#pride</a> </span></span></span></b>generates over 36 million posts from a multitude of individuals, all brought together by the shared desire for international inclusion for the LGBTQ+ community. Instagram allows you to scroll through <b>a world that you cannot help but want to be a part of:</b> a world of live concert videos, the most effective work-out routines, furry four-legged creatures (and the best part is, it's all completely free!). Continually adjusting the angle of your face to achieve the perfect selfie seems worth it when you are showered with compliments just minutes after posting, and feelings of empowerment ensue. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">If used in the correct way, LinkedIn also functions to connect motivated individuals aspiring to create a legacy. Often viewed as a neoliberal creation to further inspire professional individualism, LinkedIn can also encourage <a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/communitarianism-definition-and-theories-5070063" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>communitarianism</b></span></a>. It can <b>attract and inspire likeminded individuals,</b> students, as well as the generally inquisitive. As with Instagram, not only can LinkedIn be used to construct and market your individual brand, but it can also help you to create professional relationships, sometimes without even meeting the other person. LinkedIn aims to <a href="https://about.linkedin.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">create economic opportunity</span></b></a>, presenting its members with a list of carefully curated potential jobs to apply to, as well as ways to promote the best version of yourself on the platform. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The inevitable downsides </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">No social media platform is devoid of detriments. Despite the innumerable body-positive influencers using Instagram to portray the power of self-love, it inadvertently <b>exacerbates both self-hatred and envy</b>. Whether someone goes abroad more than you, can bench even more weight than you, or has a thousand more followers than you, there is an endless number of individuals to examine and compare yourself to. In fact, <a href="#https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">1 in 5</span></b></a> teenagers have said that Instagram has a negative effect on their self-esteem. Instagram shows us everything we see ourselves as lacking physically, as well as everything we could ever dream of possessing materially. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="#"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo3WScCqLKTyvN4yadmsPmkCMXk8TAQaI1gitpJGmNJAwUxscyGnvRoPNU4hYGeyYA1RR0KjWwlJABZCchL-29hfRPuSrTCdUwnQWdtt5BtXQNAntI6qMj7eJF5zeIfZInY1UPpxykY280CozqVhfj6MRiq1Pd5S9VKDShZpkL9d4572GgDXIJC4HExQ/w415-h215/teens%20stats%20insta%20.png" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b> </b> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> <span style="color: #444444;">Source: </span><span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="http://wsj.com" target="_blank">wsj.com</a></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Certain Instagram activists, such as confidence coach <a href="https://www.instagram.com/jennygaither/?hl=en" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Jenny Gaither</span></b></a>, are using their platforms to spread a new message: <a href="https://www.verywellmind.com/body-positive-influencers-4165953"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">brains over beauty</span></b></a>. Yet, human beings do not limit comparative analysis to material factors. In fact, around <a href="https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/basics/social-comparison-theory" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>10 percent</b></span></a> of our thoughts centre around comparison. While being the most professionally successful is certainly not an indication of mental superiority, LinkedIn has become the leading mechanism to proudly exhibit what your brain has helped you to achieve. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>As a self-proclaimed country-bumpkin</b> from the depths of rural Mid-Wales, arriving in a bustling metropolis to attend university was certainly out of my comfort zone. To encounter numerous individuals that were interested in the same topics as me, wished for the same career as me, and seemed to know three times as much as me, was a strange reality to be faced with. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">“Do you have LinkedIn? Why don’t you have LinkedIn? You should really get LinkedIn!” </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Surrendering yourself to the world of LinkedIn can be advantageous. You begin to understand that your peers are not only wishing for the same career as you, but seem to be already taking the necessary steps to achieve it. This can certainly motivate us to work hard to fulfil our ambitions. However, <b>mental comparison is also a toxic hobby</b> to engage in. Dream of being a writer? LinkedIn will assist you in finding over 30 other students that are already the editor-in-chief of their university newspaper. Created your own start-up company? The business magnate you idolise had already created three by the time they were 21. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">However, we do not only use LinkedIn to engage in <a href="https://study.com/academy/lesson/self-comparison-theory-upward-vs-downward-social-comparison.html" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">upward comparisons</span></b></a>, but also <a href="https://study.com/academy/lesson/self-comparison-theory-upward-vs-downward-social-comparison.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>downward comparisons</b></span></a>. I am ashamed to admit that I breathe a sigh of relief when I find a profile that is less impressive than my own. To judge success based on what others both have and have not achieved within the professional realm is something many of us are guilty of. With its <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-does-my-linkedin-profile-compare-othe-matt-cordas/?trk=pulse-article_more-articles_related-content-card" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Social Selling Index</b></span></a>, LinkedIn makes it even easier to discover how you rank in comparison to your network. This inadvertently causes individuals, such as myself, to increasingly view <b>self-worth as defined by professional success</b>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Going forward </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On both Instagram and LinkedIn, there are ways in which we can make ourselves appear as the person we wish to become. The purpose of <a href="https://www.facetuneapp.com/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">Facetune</span></b></a>, a photo editing app used to cover up or enhance certain features, is not exclusive to Instagram. Around <a href="https://www.themodems.com/beauty/71-percent-of-people-edit-their-selfies" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">71%</span></b></a> of Brits choose to edit their selfies, and a research project directed by LendEDU found that <a href="https://lendedu.com/blog/drawbacks-deceptions-linkedin/" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">34% of participants admitted to lying to some degree</span></b></a> on their LinkedIn profiles. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It is easy to alter the truth about how long a job lasted for, and LinkedIn does not function to eradicate the invisibility of nepotistic connections. Nobody will suspect that you already knew your employer, who has been best friends with your parents since their first encounter while wine tasting in Bordeaux. So, when you are completing your ninth browse of the day on both Instagram and LinkedIn, it is vital to refrain from taking everything at face value and to remember that the playing field is not always level. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="#"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixcAt7UrJ-gS3FM0tQ3wx7TbvQ-92mNV0HTHdcssJlXQnIq3jcMfwtQLJT923vWZ0cpo_kBucf6ztdHIDsOOuKomrHr5jgCm5PHTBSY-EUKcQmfWTPScw-FL8M27XCUUdQOwQy0WuzupeqKwyIXvRrt9z91zlrL9wrroSge42VGBgDOJ1XnA0MX2UAOw/w417-h275/LI%20lies%20graph.png" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <span style="font-size: x-small;"> Source: <a href="https://lendedu.com/blog/drawbacks-deceptions-linkedin/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;">lendedu.com</span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I certainly admire the countless individuals on Instagram that make neon skirts and pixie cut hairdos look cool, but I do not envy them, as you would never catch me wearing a neon skirt, and I would not suit a pixie cut. As someone who has endured a long-term battle with acne, I do envy the glowing spot-free individuals who permeate my Instagram feed, that sport a cloak of perfect skin. Similarly, successful bankers, prodigious pianists, or people that have built their own construction company from scratch are all individuals I admire, but do not envy. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">While I am quick to compare myself to likeminded individuals with similar career aspirations, I have never obsessed over the achievements of those I do not see myself as in competition with. Many people have achieved genuinely incredible things, in which they deserve to acknowledge and be proud of, but <b>it is easy to obsess over all the ways we perceive them to be better than ourselves</b>. What is not easy, is appreciating the ways in which we are successful, whether you are the founder of an international clothing brand, or you finally managed to look at supermodel <b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/emrata/?hl=en" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Emily Ratajkowski’s</span></a> </span></b>Instagram page without loathing yourself. Victories come in all shapes and sizes, and they are plentiful when we actively try to look for them.</div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW262425893 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; orphans: 2; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative; widows: 2;"><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW190547467 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW178842585 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: white; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW178842585 BCX9" paraeid="{7941c3f8-f388-40c1-9489-bacb74520aef}{255}" paraid="1974974623" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun Highlight SCXW178842585 BCX9" data-contrast="auto" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.15px; margin: 0px; outline: transparent solid 1px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW178842585 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></span></span><span class="EOP SCXW178842585 BCX9" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 24.15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"> </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW178842585 BCX9" paraeid="{7941c3f8-f388-40c1-9489-bacb74520aef}{255}" paraid="1974974623" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><br /></i></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW178842585 BCX9" paraeid="{7941c3f8-f388-40c1-9489-bacb74520aef}{255}" paraid="1974974623" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><br /></i></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW178842585 BCX9" paraeid="{7941c3f8-f388-40c1-9489-bacb74520aef}{255}" paraid="1974974623" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><i style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;">Lucy Thomas </i></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW178842585 BCX9" paraeid="{7941c3f8-f388-40c1-9489-bacb74520aef}{255}" paraid="1974974623" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;"><span class="EOP SCXW178842585 BCX9" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 24.15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW178842585 BCX9" paraeid="{7941c3f8-f388-40c1-9489-bacb74520aef}{255}" paraid="1974974623" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="EOP SCXW178842585 BCX9" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; line-height: 24.15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lucy is an undergraduate BSc Politics and International Relations student at the London School of Economics. She enjoys singing at open mic nights in her spare time. </span></span></p></div><div class="OutlineElement Ltr SCXW178842585 BCX9" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; clear: both; cursor: text; direction: ltr; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px; position: relative;"><p class="Paragraph SCXW178842585 BCX9" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{b9002be2-6262-4d30-a49b-45c755c3a72c}{89}" paraid="687750252" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span class="TextRun SCXW178842585 BCX9" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: black; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB"><br /></span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW178842585 BCX9" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{b9002be2-6262-4d30-a49b-45c755c3a72c}{89}" paraid="687750252" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="TextRun SCXW178842585 BCX9" data-contrast="none" lang="EN-GB" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; color: black; font-size: x-small; font-variant-ligatures: none; line-height: 24.15px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" xml:lang="EN-GB">LinkedIn: /in/lucy-thomas </span></span></p><p class="Paragraph SCXW178842585 BCX9" lang="EN-US" paraeid="{b9002be2-6262-4d30-a49b-45c755c3a72c}{89}" paraid="687750252" style="-webkit-font-kerning: none; -webkit-user-drag: none; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; margin: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" xml:lang="EN-US"><span class="EOP SCXW178842585 BCX9" data-ccp-props="{"335559740":276}" style="-webkit-user-drag: none; 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margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="612" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOwWTIIzCYA6quV-icZtktHn0zPpWxvQtnHadfYDOjWFqqAue0GoYXw87mSv_Rtw7e5EHQkeggMvcKkDP1NWd1dfiPF2YWH7bRxUBZnW6KX7gFQBXQUoaSL7GpwZRe56AVtY3Hb35R6pwRT9APYQB3XnTY3KbEkWHQx3A-BQjXX9cjOIKWlMd5P0nf/w400-h278/1.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">iStock</td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit;">This article contains language that some may find distressing. When speaking of violent criminals in this article, I will refer to them by their initials, in accordance with the recommendation and example of <a href="https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/reports/misogynist-incels-and-male-supremacism/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Kelly, DiBranco & DeCook (2021)</b></span></a>.</span></i></div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Social media is a fantastic tool for creating communities. Thousands of people have connected with long-lost family and friends, found groups of like-minded people, and discovered interests they never would’ve dreamt of through the likes of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, amongst others.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But what happens when communities go bad? What happens when, with the help of social media, people are driven towards violent crime by radicalising content on their screens?</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The misogynistic (strongly prejudiced against women) incel community tells us the answer to these questions.</div> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>My orchestration of the Day of Retribution is my attempt to do everything, in my power, to destroy everything I cannot have. All of those beautiful girls I’ve desired so much in my life, but can never have because they despise and loathe me, I will destroy. All of those popular people who live hedonistic lives of pleasure, I will destroy, because they never accepted me as one of them. I will kill them all and make them suffer, just as they have made me suffer. It is only fair.</i></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Why do things have to be this way? I’m sure that is the question everyone will be asking after the Day of Retribution is over. They will all be asking why. Indeed, why? That is the question I’ve had for everyone throughout all my years of suffering. Why was I condemned to live a life of misery and worthlessness while other men were able to experience the pleasures of sex and love with women? Why do things have to be this way? I ask all of you.</i></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>All I ever wanted was to love women, and in turn to be loved by them back. Their behaviour towards me has only earned my hatred, and rightfully so! I am the true victim in all of this. I am the good guy. Humanity struck at me first by condemning me to experience so much suffering. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. I didn’t start this war… I wasn’t the one who struck first… But I will finish it by striking back. I will punish everyone. And it will be beautiful. Finally, at long last, I can show the world my true worth.</i></div></span></blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;"> <div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">These paragraphs conclude the Santa Barbara attacker’s manifesto, <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1173808-elliot-rodger-manifesto"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>My Twisted World</b></span></a>, sent to his parents on 23rd May, 2014. Along with the upload of a YouTube video, titled ER’s Retribution, which concluded a long list of virulently misogynistic and racist online material, this was the last statement of the 22-year-old, before, that same day, he approached the UC Santa Barbara Campus in Isla Vista California and murdered six people. Fourteen others were injured, and ER then shot himself.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">ER has been identified as a misogynist incel. To those unfamiliar with this terminology, ‘incel’ is a shortened form of ‘involuntary celibate’, describing a subset of people who are not able to have sex, despite pursuing and desiring it. The combination of an incel with virulent misogyny is often a recipe for disaster.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The misogynist incel community largely consists of young white males, who are responsible for a wide range of misogynistic, racist, and homophobic vitriol which they have shared online over mostly anonymous platforms. The main social media platforms that these groups use are Reddit, 4chan, and Stormfront, coexisting alongside specialised websites such as PUAHate.com (later Sluthate.com).</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZwQSP6VKkDMI8g9FNjZqD1g4aAiCj3dZDEnyzKPUyOTebVPF4ORCjb_nqRu5Y5dzAGINDF-X-ID3XErLjVJltexzlCq81VWOzZBMiFJw9mqefE2xKPpluvTU-T6VMAd-xcF-wiGzj-WyTORqYr39OMvLYHzy9GpJGNKjxi1OPOFndwOjlDyrmfR4i/s932/2.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="560" data-original-width="932" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZwQSP6VKkDMI8g9FNjZqD1g4aAiCj3dZDEnyzKPUyOTebVPF4ORCjb_nqRu5Y5dzAGINDF-X-ID3XErLjVJltexzlCq81VWOzZBMiFJw9mqefE2xKPpluvTU-T6VMAd-xcF-wiGzj-WyTORqYr39OMvLYHzy9GpJGNKjxi1OPOFndwOjlDyrmfR4i/w400-h240/2.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43545-021-00220-8</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">These spaces are where much violent misogyny can be easily discovered. For example, in a 2015 ‘Men’s Rights’ post from the r/Red Pill forum on Reddit, we see Reddit user foldpak111 illustrate his view of the difference between men and women (Dignam & Rohlinger 2019):</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Dogs act like men, cats act like women. So basically, if you want a loyal best friend who is always going to be there for you when you’re on your knees, get a dog. If you want a passive aggressive bitch who walks around like she owns the place and when you confront her, she hides for a week, get a cat.</i></div></span></blockquote><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In these online spaces, we can clearly detect misogyny. We can also see advice from one man to another on how to manipulate women and ensure sex, alongside posts detailing a man’s sexual ‘victories’. The hatred is obvious, horrifying, and deeply uncomfortable – but this is not simply confined to online hate. It can spill into the violent crime that perpetrators like ER commit.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In many ways, the online community that incels have created through social media, which posts this hate and encourages it in other men, can be considered a direct cause of terrorist violence in recent years. ER, before his killing spree in 2014, wrote in his manifesto (quoted above) that the posts he found on incel forums, and particularly on PUAHate.com, ‘confirmed many of the theories [he] had about how wicked and degenerate women really are’.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Many other violent terror attacks have been linked to incel forums and ideology. CH-M, the murderer of nine students at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, was believed by the FBI to have posted on incel threads on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4chan"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>4chan</b></span></a> (an anonymous social media platform), warning people not to go to school the next day. On the forum, he was applauded and advised on his shooting plans by forum members.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">AM, in 2018, posted on Facebook that the ‘incel rebellion [had] begun’, and is known to have referenced 4chan and ER online, before driving a van into pedestrians in Toronto, killing ten and injuring fourteen.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">We can even track the influence of misogynistic incel ideology and crime upon other, non-incel-identifying criminals in the community. In February 2018, NC killed seventeen at Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. Two months before NC, WA killed two students and himself at his old high school in New Mexico. SB shot six women and injured a man, killing two, before killing himself. GS, in 2009, killed three women and himself at LA Fitness in Pennsylvania, injuring nine other women, and left a note in his gym bag describing his deep-rooted hatred for women.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">All of these men were active on misogynist incel forums and social media, some even coming up against the FBI, who did nothing to tackle their violent misogyny. Clearly, misogynist incel ideology and misogynist incel presence online has led to violence in the real world.</span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8BQUjEkhPPrN62SYdYPlu7_g1vI3_vJYiQkGg7lbyU8zj5F6Cdz1Rllt2egGMQGCSLCEs36tJBO52xLM3CRQZB9xeq274D_AV5v2PnjGviuZjhxVe-p5hPYQs_iLYx-k_crLChHBdD-CvifNOepiJdrNu1UTTul-_8AnR1Lz-5TewMYWFU2E-ECeN/s922/3.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="590" data-original-width="922" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8BQUjEkhPPrN62SYdYPlu7_g1vI3_vJYiQkGg7lbyU8zj5F6Cdz1Rllt2egGMQGCSLCEs36tJBO52xLM3CRQZB9xeq274D_AV5v2PnjGviuZjhxVe-p5hPYQs_iLYx-k_crLChHBdD-CvifNOepiJdrNu1UTTul-_8AnR1Lz-5TewMYWFU2E-ECeN/w400-h256/3.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43545-021-00220-8#Fig1</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="font-size: large; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">And there is evidence to suggest that there is a direct link between the intensity of violence in the real world, and the intensity of violence online (Patton et al. (2016), A55).</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">That isn’t to say that all of those people posting on incel forums on social media and independent websites are violent – the words that they type on their screens might not have violent intent behind them at all – but we can’t deny that, no matter the original poster’s intentions, these posts can still have serious implications and cause great violence outside of our screens.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Social media doesn’t only provide a platform for this misogyny to reach those who will transform it into physical violence – it also makes this violence much worse. As Young (2019 p. 29) has written: ‘Without social media, … [the incel group] would not have had the mechanism to connect with each other, form an ideological group, and be radicalised without social media.’</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Misogynist incels have found each other online, and this has formed a group identity and community. This community then plays a key role in inciting those misogynist incels towards violence in the real world, as they are consistently surrounded online by people who share their extremist views, and glorify violence against women.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The social media algorithms that recommend content to users based on what they are most likely to engage with function to create what Colleoni et al. (2014) have called an ‘echo chamber’. This echo chamber then creates an online world in which ‘extremist attitudes and violence are no longer taboos but are seen as positive and desirable’ (Meleagrou-Hitchens et al.), and creates the impression that the extremist views that the user holds are shared by many.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Because of all this, the Counterterrorism Group have stated explicitly that social media companies have a responsibility in addressing their role in the radicalisation of men into misogynistic incel violence, and many social media sites have taken this advice.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Reddit has perhaps done the most to try and combat misogynist incel radicalisation on their platform, banning popular threads of conversation such as r/incels, r/theblackpill, and r/braincels, among others, and placing volunteer moderators in communities at risk of radicalisation as they’re in contact with so much extremist material day after day.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The key issue is, though, that, after being banned from Reddit, these forums have simply migrated onto other social media platforms with less moderation, which has then allowed this radicalisation to continue with no counter-messaging to combat it. Equally, the creation of echo chambers, as previously mentioned, leads to content not being reported because non-radicalised / non-misogynistic users are unlikely to see it. This is something that Donna Zuckerberg, renowned classicist, has criticised her brother, Mark Zuckerberg, founder of Facebook, for, in her 2018 book, <a href="https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674975552"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age</b></span></a>.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">One perhaps obvious solution to breaking the chain of misogynistic incel radicalisation that leads to violence would be removing the content, and de-platforming is perhaps a simple answer.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">However, there are some unique problems with this. The misogynistic incel community thrive off of their self-perception as a group who are being discriminated against and oppressed. They are the only ones who know ‘the truth’ – and so, by censoring them, social media platforms risk encouraging that self-perception and leading to further radicalisation.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Counterterrorism Group have offered <a href="https://www.counterterrorismgroup.com/post/the-role-of-social-media-in-advancing-violent-incel-extremism"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>some recommendations</b></span></a> to social media platforms on this issue. These include the removal of violent content and hate speech immediately through AI, flagging and moderating of less extreme misogynistic content, and the direction of both posters and readers of misogynistic incel content towards further resources. They also suggest that no misogynistic incel content should be recommended, manifestos and suicide letters should immediately be moderated and reported to police, and social media platforms should work with governments and NGOs on counter-radicalisation programs.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The most important recommendation, though, is that these policies should be consistent across platforms, to prevent communities migrating to ‘more-accepting’ social media sites. This would require social media competitors to work together and introduce rules that might damage their customer base, and would lose them those all-important clicks from misogynistic incel and other communities – which, perhaps understandably, many social media platforms would be reluctant to do. But they shouldn’t be.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Their loss of engagement, loss of users, and loss of flexibility will save lives.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Fifty-one women died at the hands of the radicalised misogynist incels mentioned in this article. Social media has the power to prevent the deaths of other women, and it is the ethical imperative that companies work to do so.</span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i><span style="color: #990000;">Anna Coopey</span></i></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">4th year undergraduate student in Classics at The University of St Andrews in Scotland. Keen writer and researcher on a number of topics, varying from Modern Greek literature to revolutionary theory. </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Twitter: <b><span style="color: #674ea7;"><a href="https://twitter.com/anna_coopey" target="_blank">@anna_coopey</a></span></b> </div> <div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Works Cited:</span></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Echo Chamber or Public Sphere? Predicting Political Orientation and Measuring Political Homophily in Twitter Using Big Data (2014) - <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jcom.12084"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/jcom.12084</span></b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Words That Kill? An Economic Model of the Influence of Speech on Behaviour (with Particular Reference to Hate Speech) (2005) - <a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/425599"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/425599</span></b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Misogynistic Men Online: How The Red Pill Helped Elect Trump (2019) – <a href="https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/701155"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/701155</b></span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Ungovernability of Digital Hate Culture (2018) <a href="https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/ungovernability-digital-hate-culture"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">https://jia.sipa.columbia.edu/ungovernability-digital-hate-culture</span></b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Role of Social Media in Advancing Violent Incel Extremism (2021) - <a href="https://www.counterterrorismgroup.com/post/the-role-of-social-media-in-advancing-violent-incel-extremism"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>https://www.counterterrorismgroup.com/post/the-role-of-social-media-in-advancing-violent-incel-extremism</b></span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Applying Differential Association Theory to Online Hate Groups: A Theoretical Statement (2012) - <a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248392261_Applying_Differential_Association_Theory_to_Online_Hate_Groups_A_Theoretical_Statement"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>https://www.researchgate.net/publication/248392261_Applying_Differential_Association_Theory_to_Online_Hate_Groups_A_Theoretical_Statement</b></span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Social Networks Struggle to Crack Down on ‘Incel’ Movement (2021) - <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/16/social-networks-struggle-to-crack-down-on-incel-movement"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/aug/16/social-networks-struggle-to-crack-down-on-incel-movement</span></b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Misogynist Incels and Male Supremacism: Overview and Recommendations for Addressing the Threat of Male Supremacist Violence (2021) - <span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>https://www.newamerica.org/political-reform/reports/misogynist-incels-and-male-supremacism/red-pill-to-black-pill/ </b></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">The Impact of Digital Communications Technology on Radicalisation and Recruitment (2017) - <a href="https://academic.oup.com/ia/article-abstract/93/5/1233/4098292?redirectedFrom=fulltext"><b><span style="color: #674ea7;">https://academic.oup.com/ia/article-abstract/93/5/1233/4098292?redirectedFrom=fulltext</span></b></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Internet Banging: New Trends in Social Media, Gang Violence, Masculinity and Hip Hop (2013) - <a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563212003779"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563212003779</b></span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">What Role Has Social Media Played In Violence Perpetrated by Incels? (2019) - <a href="https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=peace_studies_student_work"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>https://digitalcommons.chapman.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=peace_studies_student_work</b></span></a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Not All Dead White Men: Classics and Misogyny in the Digital Age (2018)</span></div> Anna Coopeyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12617339904914819703noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812126921403364241.post-43480384993075984872022-07-13T20:05:00.000+00:002022-07-26T23:24:37.044+00:00How Influencer Marketing Has Changed In The Last 5 years<div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Alicia Van der Meer, digital marketing manager of </span><a href="https://www.monumentalmarketing.co.uk/" style="font-family: inherit;">Monumental</a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, explains the evolution of influencer marketing in the last five years, with valuable insight into how brands can get it right. With personal accounts from today’s influencers, Alicia dissects the industry and the trends that have become so ingrained in our everyday life.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGAc_Lx6jVwDdz4qI6CmjOsTehlLTI1FFZWbfTbqWABosrILXR4gWrddLgZDLfRCsz2LudD1cNI6WQkEhjzbYIvH-RiP3PK7oQH5cmQobDH6GwdFGeVqqUadtF2EEQb2BnO-fg-PRp7BF7x4r-gAA7BGoflbijpwhiJCJwStBigeZ3ZJ3e41B_7g/s1920/pexels-liza-summer-6347919.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1280" data-original-width="1920" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGAc_Lx6jVwDdz4qI6CmjOsTehlLTI1FFZWbfTbqWABosrILXR4gWrddLgZDLfRCsz2LudD1cNI6WQkEhjzbYIvH-RiP3PK7oQH5cmQobDH6GwdFGeVqqUadtF2EEQb2BnO-fg-PRp7BF7x4r-gAA7BGoflbijpwhiJCJwStBigeZ3ZJ3e41B_7g/w400-h266/pexels-liza-summer-6347919.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Over the past five years, momentous societal changes have significantly impacted the development of influencer marketing. The discipline has been forced to change to support businesses and brands in meeting changing customer needs.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Perhaps this is as a result of the pandemic and consumers becoming more aware of the brands they are buying from, or the role that reality TV has played in advertising, but there has been a noticeable shift in how influencer marketing operates. But what exactly has happened?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">I’ve worked with influencers since 2018 and have experienced the shift firsthand. There has been a noticeable change in the type of content that brands are asking their influencers to produce. Several years ago, brands would send us briefs requesting macro-influencers to share a static image with a simple caption.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Whereas today, briefs are becoming a lot more personalised and tailored to the style of the influencer. Influencer marketing is evolving and brands are beginning to understand that, in order to appeal authentic to present-day, savvy consumers, strategies need to evolve with trends and spending habits.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Here are some of the themes that have impacted the role of influencer marketing and what I predict will continue to do so in the near future - combined with some commentary from influencers for good measure!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Changes in the Instagram algorithm stunting influencer follower growth</b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Similar to the Facebook algorithm, the Instagram algorithm uses a proprietary combination of variables to determine which material should be prioritised and which can be pushed to the bottom of a user's newsfeed.</span></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">In 2022, with so many new features being added to Instagram, such as Instagram reels and Instagram shopping, the social media platform has developed algorithms that can prioritise some content, whilst de-prioritising others. Influencers have suffered as a result, as it means they are no longer able to organically increase their fan base the same way they could five years ago.</span></div></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><b><a href="https://www.instagram.com/declandoyle._/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #674ea7;">Declan Doyl</span></a></b><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;">from Celebrity Ex on the Beach, season 2, says:</span> “It’s harder to increase your followers now as the algorithm has changed and some of my posts don’t get seen for days later. It’s very frustrating as it makes it harder to get brand and sponsorship deals if the engagement is seemingly low. ”</span></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><p><br /></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixc8RZmmLWvRzTGOiNsPQ54ayME0Iov9l1kK1KPgAoNkLsdKDIdC4ILZylt5rCNtaqXM7AK5qPlOIE4Q73oAl83jqDeomH_GtXFLGPaNiJSrO5iU0J9BWfUIsC4Rvc1TzQr6aRzOR51W10YyzG3IUQhGOMRs5Dz4vZD4j0a7K49eQTep1tW11xXA/s1304/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-06%20at%2011.12.08%20AM%20(1).png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1304" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixc8RZmmLWvRzTGOiNsPQ54ayME0Iov9l1kK1KPgAoNkLsdKDIdC4ILZylt5rCNtaqXM7AK5qPlOIE4Q73oAl83jqDeomH_GtXFLGPaNiJSrO5iU0J9BWfUIsC4Rvc1TzQr6aRzOR51W10YyzG3IUQhGOMRs5Dz4vZD4j0a7K49eQTep1tW11xXA/w306-h400/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-06%20at%2011.12.08%20AM%20(1).png" width="306" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><br /></span><p></p><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/freddiebentleyofficial/?hl=en" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Freddie Bentley </b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">from The Circle says:</span> “It is so much harder to gain an organic following now Instagram has algorithms you have to get through. I can understand why people have turned to other apps like TikTok because the creators' hard work pays off more than it does on Instagram.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM3jrA85Z0PGq2FEfrmSEcgx5GW-poaXbW3vPq3TlnFecBygmlEWQ0XC9eMv9yYgz1ip4gwzRlIUpbosYMJN8Z5r7V73aqundggXH7lsNpGVCgHvkxf0C8-qCKokzAKNvXiBJQl8pdKodl0iszg2DCVPmo4_VSRqQBstWWKsYOKMXR9S-hzo45WA/s1324/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-06%20at%2011.12.54%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1324" data-original-width="1234" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM3jrA85Z0PGq2FEfrmSEcgx5GW-poaXbW3vPq3TlnFecBygmlEWQ0XC9eMv9yYgz1ip4gwzRlIUpbosYMJN8Z5r7V73aqundggXH7lsNpGVCgHvkxf0C8-qCKokzAKNvXiBJQl8pdKodl0iszg2DCVPmo4_VSRqQBstWWKsYOKMXR9S-hzo45WA/s320/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-06%20at%2011.12.54%20AM.png" width="298" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">“It's frustrating! I’ve been shadow-banned many times from Instagram as my views and opinions can be very controversial, however, it's my own platform where I can express my thoughts about certain situations and my safe space - that's why people follow me.”</span></div></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>Video content is more popular than ever before</b></span></div></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b><br /></b></span></div></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Video content has been booming ever since Tiktok came into the scene - with other social channels introducing and prioritising video formats on their own platforms to help compete.</span></div></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.wordstream.com/blog/ws/2017/03/08/video-marketing-statistics#:~:text=Video%20Marketing%20Engagement%20Statistics&text=Marketers%20who%20use%20video%20grow,social%20videos%20(via%20tubularinsights).&text=Social%20video%20generates%2012%20times%20more%20shares%20than%20text%20and%20images%20combined." style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>WordStream</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> has found that more video content is being uploaded in 30 days than what major television networks in the US have created in the past 30 years.</span></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">For example, Instagram Reels are pushed to all Instagram users, not just those who follow you. Many consumers are hopping on board because the special format lets brands and creators go viral and ignite significant community growth on the platform, which is what has been lacking from static image content.</span></div></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">82% of the global internet traffic will come from streaming videos and downloads (</span><a href="https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/solutions/collateral/executive-perspectives/annual-internet-report/white-paper-c11-741490.html" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Cisco Internet Report</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">) - with this, we see no indication that Reels will slow down in 2022, from new creative tools to a more sophisticated algorithm - it will only get better and better from here.</span></div></span></span><p> </p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/dalehuncho/" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Dale Mehmet</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;">from Love Island, season 7, says:</span> “Brands are definitely asking for more video content through reels, TikToks, etc. It’s because they can deliver better engagement results for brands and audiences can receive deeper information from a video/influencer in this format.”</span></div></span><p><br /></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZSHNGmgFE6h63Hw6p0dOpaFEgvDbP_bBPt2bkMJO7ES-zgn1fswOd-V9CNu65K7vba3qigpss0257VA7zpLU14C9XfOTulYgh1CRvC4m2BK73F_Ueb29gMyshtLQeb_q__nvP6JBcJJ3pPjOPztTqFBZWFSPWBKR5IAk0ui35JCvGA8GXzxdlqQ/s1278/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-06%20at%2011.10.19%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1278" data-original-width="1032" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZSHNGmgFE6h63Hw6p0dOpaFEgvDbP_bBPt2bkMJO7ES-zgn1fswOd-V9CNu65K7vba3qigpss0257VA7zpLU14C9XfOTulYgh1CRvC4m2BK73F_Ueb29gMyshtLQeb_q__nvP6JBcJJ3pPjOPztTqFBZWFSPWBKR5IAk0ui35JCvGA8GXzxdlqQ/w323-h400/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-06%20at%2011.10.19%20AM.png" width="323" /></a></div><br /><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/biggschrisx/" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Biggs Chris </b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">from Love Island, season 6, says:</span> “I definitely get asked to do more video content now than a couple of years ago! The pandemic triggered a rapid rise in video content creation between brands and influencers - especially with the rise of social platforms like TikTok. Video content can create a connection that static images can’t. It’s great to see an evolution of content consumption shift from text, to images, and now videos and even metaverse and virtual realities.”</span></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeJOJMj14NpARAMtxYOjbcQELic4I8V3m3QiCGFEwaa6h2v64f0U5IPh4KkZizyP4STAN0k6PiDUocBwdYuTXFk3tDD7QUrtx4U_nD4lmp7vQEjaxHaX4K6RPJbPsIzldVnmi5GWzOZ7ortdVLHu34fJ5tedrwwOVtxEzSS6epdP2ZZg2Y8yWQNw/s1188/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-06%20at%2011.11.21%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1188" data-original-width="922" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeJOJMj14NpARAMtxYOjbcQELic4I8V3m3QiCGFEwaa6h2v64f0U5IPh4KkZizyP4STAN0k6PiDUocBwdYuTXFk3tDD7QUrtx4U_nD4lmp7vQEjaxHaX4K6RPJbPsIzldVnmi5GWzOZ7ortdVLHu34fJ5tedrwwOVtxEzSS6epdP2ZZg2Y8yWQNw/w310-h400/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-06%20at%2011.11.21%20AM.png" width="310" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b>The rise of more long-term influencer strategies with micro-influencers</b></span></div></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">More brands are beginning to collaborate for longer with micro- and nano-influencers who are compatible with their brand's voice and style, as opposed to working with many influencers on brief campaigns and hiring high-profile or celebrity influencers.</span></div></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The reason why this is on the rise is that nano- and micro-influencers have a much more niche and close-knit community with their audience, which adds to the authenticity and credibility of messaging.</span></div></span></span><p> </p><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"></div></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: inherit; text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.instagram.com/louaira/" style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: #674ea7;"><b>Lou Aira</b></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">, <span style="color: #cc0000;">a lifestyle, micro-influencer, says:</span> “A couple of years ago, big fast fashion brands such as Pretty Little Thing and Boohoo would ask me to collaborate with them. But nowadays, it’s smaller businesses and more niche brands who are getting in touch with me because my community is more focused and targeted to the audiences they want to reach.”</span></div></span><p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjwRIqbIW41GLKVmDwwoCHyDeDqFEEOCTjotuMVR_XPBiidq9of8-rvEJi2AsVzh_ne1Z4hnKwpZVXR5t0_E3DDyyFb97GLraNtsPFG-vEn-S9b0lXkjM-9qDLtyOkfyXat5n_FTAfTLSb1AYu1P5_l3fLqFrHqi0_JRyvEhkru4iaueSIe6NqGA/s1320/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-06%20at%2011.13.55%20AM.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1320" data-original-width="994" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjwRIqbIW41GLKVmDwwoCHyDeDqFEEOCTjotuMVR_XPBiidq9of8-rvEJi2AsVzh_ne1Z4hnKwpZVXR5t0_E3DDyyFb97GLraNtsPFG-vEn-S9b0lXkjM-9qDLtyOkfyXat5n_FTAfTLSb1AYu1P5_l3fLqFrHqi0_JRyvEhkru4iaueSIe6NqGA/w301-h400/Screen%20Shot%202022-07-06%20at%2011.13.55%20AM.png" width="301" /></a></div><p><br /></p><span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">At the end of the day, people bond with one another. A relatable face can help customers feel more connected to a brand, and when they establish a long-term relationship with the proper influencers and carry out a successful influencer strategy, they will get the results they seek in terms of customer loyalty.</span></div><div style="font-size: x-large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></span><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What may be considered hot now may already be out-of-date next month in the dynamic world of social media and influencers. Therefore, it's crucial for brands to pay close attention to how these developments will impact their social media presence, content creation and ensure they are meeting the fast changes in customers' needs to stay ahead of the game.</span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Article by <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: left;"><b>Monumental Marketing</b> </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.monumentalmarketing.co.uk/&source=gmail&ust=1658241801920000&usg=AOvVaw2j90oH663XEJhsdrMBRc2T" href="https://www.monumentalmarketing.co.uk/" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc; text-align: left;" target="_blank">Home-<wbr></wbr>Monumental Marketing</a></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></span><p></p>Mili Poncehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10946153311679415691noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6812126921403364241.post-13688905078925965072022-07-05T13:25:00.014+00:002022-07-18T22:54:59.326+00:00"When times are good you should advertise. When times are bad you must advertise.” <p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIcbZgqWnmL4J750OCAlY60Enrte2MnSZsu_BW9jrIZfydv_Bi3cEmCxTJfdmLIZgqmLAPqR3EDa30En_2sbtw1ojGd6ryKDGn8IwBUVZjGVcPq-veza_JYM4j2hPpPvfSN0dQlgHUaquTQ2xgN6jOmKwMSs5yIXnJPxAzZvR9mxlQRpmh1aF0qQ/s1460/unnamed.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="819" data-original-width="1460" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIcbZgqWnmL4J750OCAlY60Enrte2MnSZsu_BW9jrIZfydv_Bi3cEmCxTJfdmLIZgqmLAPqR3EDa30En_2sbtw1ojGd6ryKDGn8IwBUVZjGVcPq-veza_JYM4j2hPpPvfSN0dQlgHUaquTQ2xgN6jOmKwMSs5yIXnJPxAzZvR9mxlQRpmh1aF0qQ/w400-h225/unnamed.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><p></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In recent months, the cost of living in the UK has risen and continues to increase. With everything becoming more and more costly, <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://email.authoritycom.com/c/1oucGMwuPci6vltZpSUh4t9ylc&source=gmail&ust=1657109322929000&usg=AOvVaw2eIfGaaAGwevWLyYP30DuB" href="http://email.authoritycom.com/c/1oucGMwuPci6vltZpSUh4t9ylc" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">businesses</a> are beginning to suffer, and it may not be long before the newspapers and media outlets broadcast that we are in a recession.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Although a recession can be scary for most, there’s no need for businesses to panic and give in to the scare-mongering that will be pushed. In fact, <b>this is the perfect time to boost opportunities and take advantage</b>. Sergio Afonso, CEO of <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://email.authoritycom.com/c/1oucOzf9EmN3Wp28zqYNtfrTgp&source=gmail&ust=1657109322929000&usg=AOvVaw1cz-rtu9_XejbbFFt7A0vm" href="http://email.authoritycom.com/c/1oucOzf9EmN3Wp28zqYNtfrTgp" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">Absolute Translations</a> shares his expertise.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Across the Globe</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Despite the declining <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://email.authoritycom.com/c/1oucWlXOtxi1nsAhIZ3jS1KebC&source=gmail&ust=1657109322929000&usg=AOvVaw0aSx3BTA3nrBa4KyHeauPZ" href="http://email.authoritycom.com/c/1oucWlXOtxi1nsAhIZ3jS1KebC" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">economy</a> in the UK, markets throughout the world are thriving. Businesses expanding overseas may just save them from potential economic damage, allowing them to almost recession-proof themselves. Many UK businesses may not consider global expansion as an option; however, big and small businesses alike are starting to realise that ‘local’ doesn’t just mean ‘local’ anymore. Usually, brands may steer clear of reaching across the pond, but this is because they haven’t been given the right tools to thrive in those environments.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Utilising <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=http://email.authoritycom.com/c/1oud48GtiHMYOw8qSx7QgO2z6P&source=gmail&ust=1657109322929000&usg=AOvVaw0wHgGXl3vyjAWVVZ3lzybg" href="http://email.authoritycom.com/c/1oud48GtiHMYOw8qSx7QgO2z6P" style="color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">translation services</a> can have a huge impact on how business fares during this time and can help companies to take control of the direction they’re heading in. By translating their marketing, product information and more into as little as 12 languages, businesses can effectively interconnect and branch out to 80% of the globe, opening up a wider consumer market.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Planning</span></b></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In such times of economic hardship, it is vital to plan before it is too late. Right now, we are ahead of the curve which can benefit businesses greatly. This is the time to find amazing people to join teams, to win contracts that others may be pulling out of due to fear and to even get special deals on supplies. </span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In the coming weeks, it is important that businesses prepare themselves not only economically, but also mentally to ensure they go from strength to strength. Staying focused on business goals and ignoring the whirlwind can make all the difference. Brands should be utilising translation companies to plan ahead and ensure they are able to effectively communicate with potential overseas partners.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b>Is cutting in Marketing the right thing to do?</b></span></p><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">When a business needs to make cuts to weather an economic storm, marketing budgets are almost always first on the list.</span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After all, spending big on marketing can seem counterintuitive when customers are spending less and revenues are down. That’s when, on the surface, big marketing budgets can become difficult to justify – even for the biggest of businesses.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Take 2020, for example. Marketing spending plummeted to the <a href="https://cmosurvey.org/results/">lowest levels in over a decade</a>, just as around <a href="https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/@dgreports/@dcomm/documents/briefingnote/wcms_767028.pdf">255 million full-time jobs were lost</a> across the globe.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Against that backdrop, it’s not hard to see why spending money on encouraging customers to open their wallets became less of a priority. If even Google <a href="https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google-cuts-50-percent/364036/#:~:text=An%20internal%20email%20reveals%20that,by%20the%20COVID%2D19%20pandemic.">had to cut its marketing budget in half</a>, how could other businesses afford not to do the same?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>But no matter how logical it might seem, is it always right to make marketing budget cuts?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There are several reasons to advertise during a slowdown. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">1. The “noise level” in a brand’s product category can drop when competitors cut back on their ad spend. It also allows advertisers to reposition a brand or introduce a new product.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Because above all else, there’s less competition.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. Brands can project to consumers the image of corporate stability during challenging times.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">3. The cost of advertising drops during recessions. The lower rates create a “buyer’s market” for brands. Studies have shown that direct mail advertising, which can provide greater short-term sales growth, increases during a recession.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">4. When marketers cut back on their ad spending, the brand loses its “share of mind” with consumers, with the potential of losing current – and possibly future – sales. An increase in “share of voice” typically leads to an increase in “share of the market.” An increase in market share results, with an increase in profits.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">5. Best time to stand out by running a strong content marketing campaign, while your competitors advertise less.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>What should you do to cut costs but maintain or increase your marketing budget and results?</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">1. Getting rid of unnecessary marketing software and tools.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">2. Freezing new product launches and updates</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">3. Analise where what channels are bringing the most clients and keep those channels running only, maybe even consider increasing the spend on those channels only.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">4. Outsource your marketing and reorganising your team to focus on converting the leads the marketing agency will bring instead of doing the marketing themself. What that means is you need to focus on converting old and new leads more than bringing them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span><div><p style="background-color: #fcfcfc; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Although the natural inclination for advertisers is to cut back on advertising during a recession, those brands that maintain their ad budget and/or change their messaging can get a long-lasting boost in sales and market share.</span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem;"><span style="background-color: #fcfcfc; color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures;">Perhaps the best quote about advertising in a recession came from <a aria-label="Sam Walton" data-ga-track="ExternalLink:https://www.azquotes.com/quote/521249" href="https://www.azquotes.com/quote/521249" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; color: #003891; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Sam Walton</a>, the founder of Wal-Mart. When asked, “What do you think about a recession?” he responded, </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>“I thought about it and decided not to participate.”</b></span><br /><br /></p><p style="background-color: #fcfcfc; box-sizing: border-box; color: #333333; font-variant-ligatures: common-ligatures; margin: 0px 0px 1.2rem; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Resources:</span></p><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: -webkit-center;">"We are officially in a recession, as explained by an expert"</span><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222; text-align: -webkit-center;">, </b>Sergio Afonso, CEO of <a href="https://www.absolutetranslations.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Absolute Translations</span></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradadgate/2019/09/05/when-a-recession-comes-dont-stop-advertising/?sh=6eb5c62c4608">Forbes.com</a><br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); 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border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06666; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">Pinterest:</span></span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"> /MiliPonce<br style="box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s;" /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p><p style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #5e5e5e; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #e06666; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;">LinkedIn:</span></span><span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: justify; transition: all 0.5s ease 0s; vertical-align: baseline;"> /in/MiliPonce</span> </span></span></span></p></div>Mili Poncehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10946153311679415691noreply@blogger.com0