Friday, November 22, 2013
A traitor's life
Many citizens, including myself were shocked when we they first found out about the NSA leaks. I at first lost a lot of trust and respect for my government. But wait once I really thought about it. What is the NSA looking for… They are not interested in our personal lives. No one gives a crap about joe shmos big promotion. We are just a bunch of fish in a ocean. The NSA is looking for terrorists domestic and foreign. They are looking for people who are going to attack America on it's own soil. I would fork up some of my privacy rights for my safety. People are just blowing this out of proportion because it is another excuse to blame the government for their problems. Snowden made public that he was the one leaking the information to the public in a interview with Greenwald. Once this was public the hunt for snowmen began and then the newspapers were told to destroy their evidence and David Miranda was held in Heathrow airport for violating certain laws. Do I think Snowden is a traitor yes because all he has done thrown this country into an upheaval.
Monday, November 18, 2013
annotated bibliography
My digital story mainly focuses on the affects of social media on high school students losing scholarships.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2012/01/23/catholic-high-school-football-star-expelled-loses-scholarship-over-racist-sexual-tweets/
The article tells the story how a football star lost his scholarship to a prestigious school. Not only did he lose his scholarship he was also let go from his school because of his tweets. This will be evidence of how dangerous tweets are.
http://www.stack.com/2011/11/21/high-school-social-media-mistakes/
This article talks about the mistakes that you can make that will make you vulnerable to losing your scholarship. This article I will use when at the end of the story I will talk about ways to protect you and be careful.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/20/caitlin-ortiz-molloy-coll_n_880837.html
This scholarship talks about how simply putting rap lyrics on a Facebook post can damage your chances of losing your scholarship. This is similar to Andrew Coonfare because he did something similar.
http://www.fastweb.com/financial-aid/articles/3478-some-scholarship-sponsors-review-the-online-presence-of-finalists-when-selecting-winners
This articles talks about how before giving out scholarships organizations will check social media. They check social media to see if the contestant is worthy or not. This is the factor that did not allow Andrew Coonfare to get the scholarship.
Friday, November 15, 2013
Friday, November 8, 2013
Digital story proposal
Jacob Hedley
Dr. Shut-in
November 8 2013
Digital story proposal
My digital story
relates to something that happened to my friend in real life. A friend of mine
lost the opportunity to be in the honors program at prestigious school. This
story affects many students in the world go through the same problem. This
relates to what we have learned in class and what we have discussed all year.
When we had a speaker come in and discuss with us and tells us about people
losing their jobs because of their social media posts.
Situation: Student gets into a
prestigious college and then loses scholarship because of inappropriate tweets.
Theme: Be careful what you display
on the Internet. Because what you display on the Internet can come back to haunt
you.
Outline:
The
student named Andrew Coonfare will have straight A’s all through college and
receive and 36 on his ACT. Andrew will be involved on the hockey team and will
be the captain. He will have everything going perfectly on in his life. He will
have a great family. He will apply to many schools and will get accepted and be
given many scholarships. Once he has been given scholarships he will be given a
reviewable by the collages. Hey will go through all of his Facebook and then
all of his twitter. Once they go to his twitter they will realize that is not
as well rounded as they thought he was. They will soon realize that he posts
most inapporipate tweets. The bias repots he would receive would make him
bankrupt for life. All of his tweets are derogatory to anyone and are
completely repulsive. They will eventually decided to reject him and not give
him a scholarship. His fiends and family will be disappointed and he will be
drowned in school debt.
To
tell this story I will make a new blogger account and blog to this to the
public so that they will know Andrew Coonfare mistakes. Once they know his
mistakes the ball will be in their court to avoid the mistakes. I have strong
experience with blogger because of our web logs. I think this will be the most
successful way for me to do this project because I know I would struggle with
making a website.
I choose this website because it had examples of why people
got fired.
Monday, November 4, 2013
web log china
Many people in the United States are not aware of the
censorship issues in china. The Chinese government controls what the citizens
and residents of china are allowed to view and publish on the Internet. Back a
while ago Google was having problems with Chinese sensorship and almost left
the country completely. Now there are individuals and groups blogging about the
injustices in china. These blogs are micro blogs and millions of people follow
and view these blogs. Users have become online celebrities. These blogs have
become a huge headache for the Chinese government. In a government system were
their citizens have little to no rights and do not have the ability to hold the
right of freedom of speech these blogs challenge the Chinese government’s sovereignty.
The Chinese government has caught one of the popular bloggers; Charles Xue was brought
up on the charges of using prostitution, which is illegal in China. The Chinese
government was not able to charge him with the charges of speaking out against
the government. Though catching him will help the Chinese government catch the
Big V.
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