For some time I have had a TikTok account. As an educator, I have noticed students very involved with it and discussing it with their peers. I became curious about the functionality and what the hype was all about.
It is always important as a classroom teacher to tailor our instruction to the needs, abilities and passions of students. So, I have been experimenting new ways of how to make appropriate videos using videos that allow you to:
Lip-sync,
Re-enact a scene
Create your own.
It is very addicting app so use it with moderation.
Three posts embedded below and two created with my partner in crime Andrés Hernández.
During quarantine life we have been following the safety instructions of doing social distancing and only going out to the grocery store to stock up on food.
Below you will find three embedded posts with a screenshot of the total number of views.
Según informó Business Insider, Facebook bloqueó el día martes a los usuarios para que no compartan artículos legítimos de noticias acerca del coronavirus.
En el informe de Insider, confirmó que el problema tenía algo que ver con sus filtros de spam. A continuación se muestra una publicación incrustada de mi perfil público de Facebook.
Lo sorprendente no fueron los comentarios ni los “me gusta” de esta publicación. Más bien fue el número de acciones para compartirlo que creció exponencialmente. Uno de los usuarios había publicado el siguiente comentario sobre las razones por las que Facebook bloqueó estos artículos:
“Sí, un artículo que volví a publicar se bloqueó debido a sus” estándares de la comunidad “, pero fue solo el reenvío de una publicación de noticias. Extraño”.
Si se preguntaba qué medios de comunicación se vieron afectados, fueron los siguientes:
Business Insider
BuzzFeed
The Atlantic
The Times of Israel
@elbuder – tell you know that @Facebook just removed the link I posted to your recent article in @TheAtlantic . "Your post goes against our Community Standards on spam," is the reason they gave. Upsetting that this important communication is considered by anyone as spam. pic.twitter.com/iYjgbXQNYB
Estas agencias de noticias afectadas por el error fueron reportadas por Insider. Todavía no está claro qué otros sitios o fuentes se incluyeron en este problema.
Debido al distanciamiento social y las medidas de cuarentena en los Estados Unidos, la posible causa de este etiquetado incorrecto fue la falta de editores de contenido en la red social de Facebook. Es decir, como resultado del envío de empleados ausentes, moderadores de contenido, la empresa confió en el software automatizado. Teniendo en cuenta la cantidad de pánico y ansiedad sobre el virus en línea, esto era definitivamente algo que debería evitarse en el futuro para eventos y sucesos de esta magnitud.
El Vicepresidente de Integridad de Facebook respondió al problema del software del sistema A continuación se muestra un extracto de la respuesta Alex Stamos:
La publicación incrustada fue reportada por la agencia The Verge. Además, después de que se publicó este informe, Facebook confirmó que había resuelto el problema y restableció las publicaciones afectadas.
Parece que Facebook iba un paso más allá para combatir a dos enemigos: teorías de conspiración y noticias falsas. Resulta como parte de sus esfuerzos para ayudar con la información sobre el coronavirus tiene problemas para enfrentar la información errónea en la plataforma.
Conclusiones
Si se encuentra con este problema, informe el problema a Facebook. Además, comuníquese con las líneas de soporte tradicionales o use Google para ver qué resultados surgen para obtener asistencia.
Tenga en cuenta el contenido que ve por las redes sociales. Antes de compartir una publicación, tómese tiempo para abrir la fuente y leer la información. De lo contrario, puede estar difundiendo rumores o noticias falsas que causen pánico.
Snapchat’s Stories will never come to Twitter? Think again! That’s right, the infamous yet very popular feature that marked the previous decade is coming to the social network. As announced on company’s blog, March 4 of 2020 the social network confirmed they will be testing the feature in Brazil and they will be called “Fleets.”
The word “Fleet” for most of us comes to signify as a group of ships sailing together. However, in this particular scenario it will be about users engaged in the same activity.
Fleets will essentially be text, video or pics that will disappear after 24 hours. The feature seems like a novelty, but the integration of it will start to diminish the newsworthiness reputation of Twitter’s news agencies perhaps.
What does the enhancement of Fleets do for Twitter?
After reading the trends section of Twitter when the announcement was made, some Twitter users wasted no time to express their sentiment around this upcoming change.
As the above user expressed, he prefers to have access to the edit option. However, it is clear the above user is not on board with the change the platform has decided to try out.
The impression of Fleets reported by the Nieman Journalism Lab and Variety
According to the Niemanlab dot org report, there is genius behind Stories. In addition, it goes on to add that this feature is visual, temporary and disappear after 24 hours. They are casual and personal, which will start to blur the lines with professional news organizations.
On the other hand, the distinction will not be easy to make when a journalist attempts to disseminate Professional Tweets™ and this functionality of tossing updates. The feature goes against the notion of real-time and breaking-news since it will serve a small group of people or followers.
There is another downside to this Fleets business. That is that now recorded content will not be store forever. Well, I mean to say it will not be visible or searchable. The following quote is excerpt from the article about this thought:
“For instance: Every single thing you have ever tweeted is, by default, stored and searchable forever. That is insane if you think of a tweet as a digital equivalent to a human conversation. No one is following you around your city all day, recording every word you speak to put in some eternal audio panopticon. And yet that’s what Twitter does.”
Variety confirmed that Twitter’s move toward Fleets had more to do with a survey they conducted. Perhaps surprising to learn users would be more comfortable “sharing everyday thoughts” if they disappear after 24 hours.”
What is important to note is Twitter has always had its own narrative and trends. In other words, when it came to discussing certain topics, issues or news it was its own echo chamber and deviated from the public’s consensus about something. That is what made Twitter special and drastically different.
The arrival of Fleets makes Twitter a late adopter of Snapchat’s “Stories” feature. Snapchat came into the social media game in 2011 and launched this popular option for users in 2013, which was launched on Instagram and followed by every Facebook app or product to date. This includes YouTube as well.
Takeaways
It is uncertain what Fleets will do for Twitter. The platform that revolutionized live reporting with its 180 characters, and then doubled to 280 characters in 2018.
Twitter has changed the world. As a Mashable analysis asserts they changed the following:
Politics
Science
Business
Journalism
Celebrity culture
Let’s remember the Arab Spring that involved Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain and Libya. All of these featured the Twitter revolution and none of these countries would ever be the same.
The exchange of information and flow of real-time news was the staple of Twitter. Is Fleets going to alter the order and diminish Twitter’s swag? Time will tell.
Rose Colored Photo via Flickr Black Lives Matter Protest
Once upon a time exchanging and connecting on social media networks was a practice to embrace. Fast-forward to the present, as more people have joined major social networks tendencies have become publicly visible when discussing delicate topics like racism.
The Pew Research Center (PRC) has published numerous studies on the narrative and sentiment that takes place on social media. The latest analysis by the PRC revealed significant differences how black and white adults interact around news-breaking events and race-related topics via social media.
The social media channel analyzed in this particular study was Twitter. From the collection of tweets collected the PRC found that the most used hashtags for the history of the microblogging company, Twitter, were #Ferguson and #BlackLivesMatter.
What makes social media indispensable is how it can become a catalyst and a vital communications medium to spread the word in real-time. These cutting-edge platforms offer a different narrative than traditional media outlets can time and time again.
When it comes to usage and exchanging information black social media users, 68 percent, are twice as likely as whites, 35 percent, to assert posts on social media are relevant to race.
Additionally, the PRC carried out three content analysis case studies using publicly available Tweets. Specifically, they used the Crimson Hexagon, which is a computer coding software. In the first examination that spanned over 15-month period (Jan. 1, 2015 to Mar. 31, 2016) there were 995 million Tweets posted about race. On average 2.1 million tweets shared daily about the subject at hand.
To review more details about the other content analysis you can visit the original study and learn more insight into the data compiled.
Of these Tweets mentioning race 60 percent were directly tied to news events (church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, and Grammy performance of Kendrick Lamar.
This shift in the narrative on Twitter is unique and highlights the growing power of social media. Prior to this revelation of differences among the social media adult users there was a tendency to keep quiet about heated topics or social issues off of these social networking sites. Almost two years ago, the PRC had published a separate survey titled“Social Media and the ´Spiral of Silence´”.
The previously mentioned study highlighted hesitation on the part of users on social media and to a certain degree self-censored themselves about policy issues. This was also in light of the revelations made by former Central Intelligence Agency employee Edward Snowden about the National Security Agency (NSA).
Twitter in spite of suffering user growth and engagement is still a reliable source for public debate. Furthermore, it is an instrumental tool for citizen journalism. It brings to the national dialogue topics that are often ignored and reshapes the sentiment around the topic.
This is still far from fixing the problem, but it is raising the awareness of the harsh realities of racism towards specific groups. And collectively as a multiracial nation will have to have these contentious conversations, so we can finally push meaningful change to social injustice.
These findings from the survey are from the general public and were conducted by landline or cellular phone. The study was from Feb. 29, 2016 to May 8, 2016. The size of the sample was 3,796 U.S adults.
Anthony Carranza 