Sunday, December 6, 2020
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What I learned EOTO
What I learned about the spiral of silence is that you don't what to make argument about something that the majority of people believe to be right. We as human beings don't want to be isolated so we usually go along with what the majority of people say. This has especially been seen this year about how if you vote a certain way than you are a racist without even knowing who the person is and why they are voting that way. That is what I learned about the spiral of silence.
Illusory Truth Effect
The illusory truth effect describes how, when we hear false information repeated again and again, we believe it to be true. This can be through many things word of mouth, social media, the internet, and everything else you can get information from. This is typically used in spreading most common misconceptions that we have about certain things about our society. Some of these misconceptions include that vitamin C can prevent you from getting sick. Another one is that the buying a diamond ring has been around since the beginning of time, and that diamonds are super rare and expensive. Finally, the one that I see the most is that vaccinations cause disorders such as autism. Which is not true at all. But, when people see it all over the place the come to believe that it is the truth. This affects our society because this leads people into believing things that are not true, defending the false truth, and keeping the myth going for a long period of time. Sometimes even for generations at a time. Why is this so prominent in today's society more than in the past. That is because of the integration of social media has sped up the passage of information spreading that is a hundred times more effective than through the process of the mouth or by newspapers in the past.
The most prominent example of this is when a influencer with a lot of followers says something and because the followers believe that the influencer is trustworthy they believe anything that comes out of their mouth. If that is the case then how do we get around this? It is easier than it looks what you have to do to not fall into this trap of band-wagoning is to look stuff up yourself before you take a side. Do research and make sure the info that your getting has been proven, or that it is totally made up, or even better if the info has been taken from a source and re-worded to fit the persons needs. The example I like to give on that is the believe that videogames cause violence. That is just not the case, but it has been used by the government so many times because they use it as a scapegoat instead on focusing on what needs to be changed. So remember DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH! Make sure you are getting the right information, and never fall for the illusory truth effect.
Illusory truth effect - Biases & Heuristics | The Decision Lab
APA reaffirms position on violent video games and violent behavior
What I learned from the Ted Talks
What I learned is that privacy is not always a guarantee. The things you do and say online can really destroy everything you have built over years in an instant. We all have to be careful and even if a app says that the post goes away it is not gone forever. That is what I learned from the Ted Talks.
Diffusion Theory of Tik Toc
Tik Tok was first founded in September of 2016, and didn't get launched until a year later in 2017. Then, a month later they brought music.ly which was another social app that you could lip sync your favorite lines from movies, or songs. After those two apps merged they brought the music.ly fanbase with them. These first couple of months are when the innovators and the early adopters came in and were the first to use the app. But how did this app become so popular? It became so popular because of the fact that trend setting is easy and can be spread super fast on Tik Tok. This is when the majority of people came on to Tik Tok to be part of the action. These short videos made it on YouTube and other platforms that let so many people know and join this new social media platform. After a year of Tik Toc being out it reached 800 million downloads. Anytime after this is when the people who were lagging behind started slowly joining Tik Toc. The downside to this app was that it was made in China so the government was worried that the app was being monitored and were taking your privacy away. In the past year Tik Toc was supposed to be of the app store in this passed November. But, an American company came in and took over the rights to Tik Toc in America so it is still going strong today. That is the diffusion theory of Tik Tok.
My online presence
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