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Date: October 4, 2021

Topic : In social media, youth reaction to the situation in Afghanistan

The situation in Afghanistan has changed after the return of the Taliban. What is the reaction of the youth to the social media about this matter?

My Second Episode about that , click to the link to listen 🤩

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When you get up earlier to attend 8:00 morning classes

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Preparing for the future

A new media course is a short practice for our work in the future, where we did a lot of important things such as time management, work under pressure, and teamwork. 

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Summary of the academic reading article about: Beyond the hashtag: Circumventing content moderation on social media

Written by: Jumana Alqasmi (110887), Issa Alsubhi (106250)

Date: November 4, 2018

About the article:

Name of the journal: new media & society.

Written by: “Ysabel Gerrard”.

Department of Sociological Studies, The University of Sheffield, Northumberland Road, Sheffield S10 2TU, UK.

First Published: May 28, 2018.

Introduction:

Social media companies encourage their users to share content about themselves. They moderate problematic posts when they face public pressures, like accusations that they host pro-eating disorder pro-ED content.

Pro-ED communities are a long-standing societal concern. Pro-ED is to promote an eating disorder “as a ‘lifestyle choice’ rather than as a ‘disease’, thus challenging medical and psychiatric conceptualizations which position the ‘sufferer’ as passive and helpless”.

The relationship between social media and eating disorders has become more important in recent years. For that, By 2012 Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr announced to minimize the spread of pro-ED content. These platforms enforce their rules in fairly similar ways, all three began to issue public service announcements (PSAs) when users search for troubling hashtags, like #proana (pro-anorexia) and #thinspiration, and Instagram began to block the results of certain hashtag searches.

This article explores how the circumvention of hashtag moderation in online pro-ED communities:

1- Privileging the hashtag in a pro-eating disorder problem.

2- Finding untagged pro-ED content on Instagram and Tumblr:

3- Hiding in plain sight: signaling the pro-ED user base.

4- Trending in anorexia this week: Platforms as recommendation systems.

Privileging the hashtag in a pro-eating disorder problem:

Platforms used hashtags as a mechanism through which to police problematic posts because:

1- Hashtags are perhaps the most visible form of social media communication.

2- Connecting content between users “who have no preexisting follower/followee relationship.

3- Hashtags’ visibility makes them distinct from other forms of social media engagement such as liking and commenting.

All of Instagram, Pinterest, and Tumblr’s user base is a difficult, perhaps impossible task for both human content moderators and platforms’ automated moderation mechanisms. However, there are tools to algorithmically tag visual imagery on social media, but these methods are notoriously unreliable.

For example, on its Community Guidelines Pinterest states that it will “remove anything that promotes self-harm”. It gives an example of an image that would be acceptable, claiming “It’s okay because the focus is on nutrition and fitness.” The image’s overlaid text “It’s not a diet, it’s a way of life. Therefore, by including hashtags in a post, users are telling platforms—intentionally or otherwise—what the post is about.

In the computer sciences, Chancellor et al. (2016) have identified a range of hashtags that Instagram users coined to work around the platform’s hashtag ban (e.g. #thighgap became #thyghgapp), and Moreno et al. (2016) have found a number of deliberately ambiguous non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) tags on Instagram, like #secretsociety123ness.

Finding untagged pro-ED content on Instagram and Tumblr:

There are two ways to find new content on Instagram and Tumblr (Hashtags and keywords) and this led to over reliance on tagged data. It is hard to find untagged pro-ED content because of ethical considerations for researching data and user’s desire to minimize their visibility in a given topic.

Using search engine on Instagram to search for top posts, people, tags, and places will give you four main ways:

1- Semi-permanent blocks (no tagged content).

2- New posts moderated (top posts).

3- No posts yet (error message).

4- Public Service Announcements (PSAs).

There are other routes to access to pro-ED content by innovative methodological approach.

Instagram does not block access to searches for top posts, it return search result for users whose accounts following pro-ED terms. Over 2 week’s period of manually coded 1612 public accounts, finding that 561 accounts include hashtags and 1051 without. From these result he found that hashtags are not an important communicative tool.

Tumblr is different in content moderation, it return content for all pro-ED searches. The user can scroll the PSA to view, but Tumblr does not issues PSA.

If you follow certain keywords the platform lets users follow certain topics, and it is similar to Instagram Explore Function. He identified and analyzed 1000 Tumblr post and he found that 218 posts include hashtags and 782 without. In addition, it is again the result shows that hashtags not important.

The kind of moderation on Instagram and Tumblr are trying to make such content unsearchable, but pro-ED users are able to navigate platforms on all sorts of ways and know how to break the rules.

Hiding in plain sight: signaling the pro-ED user base:

Users who are conscious about content moderation must go beyond the hashtag to find new ways of being visible to those who they wish to be seen by. Donath’s signaling theory which state that: “people often rely on signals rather than directly observable traits to learn about each other” is useful for exploring how users identify content, but it takes time to learn how it read these subtle signals.

Many users are aware that pro-ED content is a target for moderation, and one of the most obvious ways to deflect attention is using non-hashtags. Biographies, which disavow pro-ED identities to reassure moderators and non-in-group users that their accounts are unproblematic. Because pro-ED hashtags are scrutinized, many people have developed a set of non-tagged signals.

It is difficult to uncover the hidden meanings behind these signals in the absence of hashtags. Pro-ED users understand that this interpretive work takes time for those who are not knowledgeable, which might explain why they do not use hashtags.

Pro-ED users are unwelcome on this programs and society. Therefore, they use phrases such as my dataset was “not-pro-anything” or “not promoting anything,” which means that they do not affiliate with a pro-ED identity.

Trending in anorexia this week: Platforms as recommendation systems:

The hashtag moderation is an ineffective intervention into pro-ED communities, this is because social media users circumvent it and part of the work of platforms is to recommend content to their users. However, users can instead simply enact a pro-ED identity on social media to see this kind of content. While they are often aware of and are not wholly conditioned by algorithms. However, only by liking their posts platforms presented with pro-ED content through algorithmically organized in Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr feeds, and via email. All three platforms have recommendation algorithms, they encourage different forms of communication from their users, affecting how content is seen and experienced.

Pinterest:

When a user finds an image on the Pinterest app, they can scroll down the page to view other recommended content. The platform also suggests alternative yet related phrases that users might want to search for or ideas you might love. It is algorithmically aligning pro-ED imagery with discourses like death, suicide and self-harm. The claims to remove anything that promotes self-harm, this reveals an intimate connection between platforms’ public-facing policies and closed codes. In addition, it recommended content through email updates.

Instagram:

Allows users to save pro-ED content to her saved posts folder, without sending notifications to the poster. After began saving things, Instagram’s Explore tab flooded with other pro-ED content. This form of hashtag moderation appears to be designed to protect new users who are at risk of joining pro-ED and other such networks, rather than those who are already embedded within them. Instagram categorizes the ‘embrace of anorexia, bulimia, or other eating disorders’ as a form of self- harm.

Tumblr:

Aligns blogs that actively promote self-harm with blogs that glorify or promote anorexia, bulimia, and other eating disorders.

Concluding remarks:

Pro-ED users circumvent mediator in putting issues online by using non-hashtags to escape from restrictions. The results tell us that the members of the pro-ED community are savvy, and they have devised a set of signals to indicate their contents and identities without using hashtags.

Instagram put a logic to protect:

1- New users from joining pro-ED.

2- Users who are curious.

3- Users who still use search engines to find new contents.

The analysis reveals the complexities of the “pro-ED” identity who use a set of non-pro speeches and these circumvention techniques that define this community of users. Therefore, perhaps it is not possible to police ED-related content in a systematic way.

The hashtags become the way of seeing socio-technical phenomenon, but not it is the way that people interact with the topic.

Social media can provide us with a rich source of knowledge and it is include unaddressed issues:

1- Analyses of users’ comments on pro-ED posts.

2- A cross-platform analysis to understand any socio-technical variation between different pro-ED cultures.

3- Analyses of pro-ED users’ self-representations, which are often enacted pseudonymously.

Future research on pro-ED should move away from a reliance on tagged datasets and search through analyzing untagged posts.

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“Evaluate all my work in Tumblr”

Written by: Fatema Al-Hadabi

ID : u111243

Nov 27, 2018

Number of words : 383

There is a strong correlation between all the topics that we have written about, which is; each issue is a motive or reason for the appearance of the other issue (ie, impact and influence). For example, the lack of discussion of traditional media in some issues makes some influential people talk about them in the Social media and achieve more popular among the audience.

However, all these topics revolve around one axis, which is the contribution of social media in highlighting the issue in terms of its impact and its causes..ie.

In This blog I will evaluate the working mechanism and content strategy that I followed when I am writing:

-          At the beginning, I always support my ideas and thought with evidence from the internet. There was a lack of statistical evidence to support my point of view although there are many shared evidences and facts from life. Then I followed another method to prove and analyzed the topic from a personal perspective and evidence of real life. Therefore, I become able to express my idea in a better way. For example, how social media contribute to social support

 -          I usually wrote my points of view at the conclusion, but I noticed the difference when I put them in the introduction. This difference has influenced the quality of the topic and writing. Writing the point of view in the introduction gives more strength and meaning to the topic, gives smooth and clear evidence and understanding and direction of topic.

-          As for the content of the writing, I dealt with topics in general, there were no specific angles but after that I changed the mechanism and style of my writing. I have followed one strategy to address the subject from one angle so that it is easier for me to talk about the issue and its research in depth.

-          In regard to the different points, I discussed them in the subject and found that they were complementary to the series of subjects and compatible and non-contradictory among them.

-          There are some topics I have discussed well and appropriately and some topics I could discuss better, such as the use of personal data.

-          All topics developed my writing by using strong vocabulary and creative way of analytical thinking.

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Issues discussed on social media but ignored by the mainstream media

Name: Muhallab Juma Alamri

ID: 106697

Date: 13 of NOV 2018

Number of words : 289

There is no society without problems that may increase or diminish according to their nature. Some may think that it is immune to social problems as long as it is safe, but social problems are intertwined and sequenced and must reach every individual in a picture if these problems are not addressed from the moment of their inception without negligence or negligence.

Media awareness, when dealing with an issue, must believe intentions without exaggerating or exaggerating or trying to stir in the wrong place, the owner of the problem in itself does not seek excitement but seeks to solve the problem.

But there are also issues that are not addressed by the media and are addressed only when these issues occur

Example: drainage of water during the rain .. This is a very big problem, especially in the Arab world, but the media does not address it, but the circulation between people and talk about when it actually occurs

Perhaps because there is little rain in the Arab world and people forget this problem.

There are also political issues and corruption issues, but the media does not address them or even talk about them.

For political reasons related to the State's own policy to ensure that the country is not intimidated and seditious.

It is certain that there is no media without a media policy that guides, leads and reaches the safety of the media experts in each country in order to prevent media diversions

The basic social responsibility of the media is to maintain the security and social peace of the society and its members, and to keep away from all the thorny issues and uncertainties that can cause confusion in the street and among the members of society.

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Having it all in social media, self branding , fashion bloggers

Done by: Khafam Almamari

Amjad Alshukaili

Nov 4, 2018

The Glam Life

A separate yet related way that fashion bloggers unsettle the binary between labor and leisure is through their staging of “the glam life,” characterized by global travel, invitations to exclusive events, and access to luxury goods and swag.

By taking a photos and videos for the lifestyle on their Instagram accounts, the bloggers in our sample engaged in what Marwick has described as, an attention-seeking practice whereby an individual presents herself in a high status social position .

Promotion to the brands

In many cases, these products were famous from designers and publicists as part of a mutual incentive structure that mobilizes the activities of social influencers .” The practice of “tagging,” or linking to a branded product in one’s blog or Instagram feed, stands as public recognition of a commercial.

It is perhaps not surprising that designer goods are also central to bloggers’ staging of “the glam life”, the blogs and Instagram feeds we analyzed displayed a compendium of Valentino pumps, luxury goods offset by the occasional thrift store purchase or product identified with a discount retailer.

The gendered nature of this intimate social sharing must be historically contextualized, as Victorian era demarcations between public and private were guided by assumptions about masculine and feminine realms, respectively.

Sometimes bloggers frequently shared personal details by, for example, acknowledging the support of parents or partners, Because they want to show social responsibility, thus increasing the number of followers, and increase the impact. So, that back positively for them.

Bloggers and leisure time

Some people work for some production companies, advertising and global promotion. These people may not have time to enjoy their time, and do not have the leisure time to enjoy with family and friends because they are constantly working for the company that offers them money,

While some bloggers enjoy their time through their work, they spend time with family and friends and do not have pressure through work.

While there are self-employed bloggers who are not affiliated with an organization, they enjoy their time and organize their time as they wish

self branding

Social media has contributed to the making of a personal brand. There are many persons who have benefited by getting a large number of followers, so they have become famous and influential in a certain category, thus creating a personal identity for themselves on social networks. They subsequently benefited from the commercialization of production companies. The bloggers translated their voices and into lucrative and seemingly fulfilling careers.

The Author: Brooke Erin Duffy & Emily Hund

July-December 2015: 1–11

Place: USA

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Evaluate all my works in Tumbler by: Younis ALAbri ID: 11340 Date: 27 NOV, 2018

“Misleading ads with guaranteed results or clinical studies”

This was the hardest subject for me as my first attempt at writing on Templer and did not know very well what I wanted and what I was doing But the subject was familiar because we studied it in the advertising course.

“YOUNG PEOPLE and YOUR IDENTITY IN A GLOBAL DIGITALISED” WORLD”As for the second topic where he talks about the impact of the digital world on the identity of young people with the development of digital means, where she talked about the direct impact on identity and what changes are taking place in them. And what problems are caused by change in identity. In addition, what young people must do to preserve their cultural identity

In the third topic: I talked about how social media use social support in society. Using social media can help in development and development within the community. Also help to belong in the country or place

In the fourth topic talked about users of social networking programs and their ability to provide their own information for these applications or companies, which represents some of the risk in addition to the infringement of privacy and also use those companies for personal information and data for the purposes of profitability

Evaluating my work..

I evaluate my work based on my feelings and the confidence I got after these posts! I think the circumstances have contributed to this development for us all as students and I have brought out my best here based on my level and current stage, which is good and often met expectations, However the space is very large for future development, Evolution never stops in all areas, especially in the media, which is one of the most obvious developments, media has always monitored global developments and, in turn, developed with it so I think this course was in keeping with global developments and made us as more knowledgeable students

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Summarize and evaluate topics

ID number: 111191

Written by: Abeer Alajmi

Tuesday, November 27, 2018

Blogging in Tumplr gives space to the student to express the issues that are supposed to be written about, giving ideas, arguments and examples

Where was the first to talk about, misleading ads to the last and was about issues discussed on social media but ignored by the mainstream media.

Sources of information were from websites with the addition of the link at the end of the blog also through personal knowledge and asking specific people about the issue.

The conditions for the evaluation of the blogs are:

1 - to send in time.

2 - to be the number of words between 250-300 words.

3 - to be added to the link source.

4 - to put hashtags.

5 - and to share it through Twitter account.

The topics were new and attractive to the reader. It was difficult to understand the titles but I was asking for help from the class mate. There were grammatical errors at first, but then blogging became easier by continuing to publish every week

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thank you all for your work 👏💙

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Done by: Jumana Alqasmi

ID: 110887

Date: December 9, 2018 

The photos show my snap collage😍📸.

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“Influencer's content : Ashwaq Almeskery”

Written by: Fatma Al-hadabi

ID: 111243

Oct 23, 2018

Number of words: 300

Ashwaq Almaskery is one of the influencers in social media and she introduces various contents in her accounts according to her interests. In this blog, I will analyze her content on Twitter and YouTube because she utilizes it as a tool to influence people.

Credit : Muscat Daily Newspaper 

In regards to the credibility of the content, I found that what she published is credible because most of the content translates her realistic activities and practices with documentation. In addition, the issues that she addresses in her content are appropriate, important, vital and common which deserve the follow-up. I noticed that the mechanism of her marketing for contents is one of the most important reasons that made her contents very popular.

What surprised me when I analyzed the content is that she is an influencer in social media and we find her in many big events and conferences as a speaker of how to create digital content. However, the volume of interaction in most of her tweets is very small and medium compared to the number of flowers "15.4K".

While in YouTube, the number of subscribers is "72,738k" and the views, likes do not reach the number of followers so, it does not always highlight the importance of content. This is due to the diversity of people's concerns, the lack of importance of the content to the follower and the boring and not creative template in which the content is presented.

In YouTube, there is interaction in the comments but the quality of these responses is varied. Most of them have a close relationship with the content like a proposal to address the content from another angle or a way to develop the content. Some have nothing to do with the content; others only use emoji to express their admiration or grumbling towards the content.  

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Evaluate all my works in  the tumblr

Hilal alsubhi

 ID: 111075

 Numbers of words : 340 

 Nov 27, 2018

During my study of the new media course, I summed up many topics according to my opinion in 250-300 words, and here I put evaluation of these subjects. 

 The first topic: misleading ads with guaranteed results or clinical studies, it was easy subject and all information available, used a link and image to support the information, there are many spelling errors and grammatical. 

 The second subject "Young people & your identity in a global digitalis world" was a complex subject at first and difficult to understand, so I did not write it properly and there is some information outside the subject, but the summary in general is understood.

 Next, "THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AS SOCIAL SUPPORT" supported the topic by touching reality, there are a few spelling errors and  the language of writing was good and understandable to all.

 The fourth topic, "SOCIAL MEDIA SPHERE IN THE GCC": The topic was clear and represents the reality of the Gulf institutions in the use of data and was supported by examples are stressing that companies interested in staff data.It contained a few spelling mistakes.

 Next "Influence's content" topic: The subject language was easy, using examples that reflect the reality of my follow-up to the influences. All the information is accurate and represents my point of view. I used more than an influential figure. 

 Sixth, " the populism a threat to knowledge " topic  include  many examples to prove the influence of populism on experience, there were examples from the local level. Also,I used new words.

 Seventh topic:"Issues not addressed in mainstream media" The content of the topic was a concept and touches reality, focused on the major media in Oman, and I put important issues to society. There are few grammatical errors. 

 There was a marked improvement in the writing of analysis and subject matter. In the last subject, there is few spelling and grammatical mistakes and this is a good indicator of progress.

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Wrap-up of all topics

By: Saqer Alsuleimani

ID: 113087

Date : 27 November 2018

Number of words : 624

In this report I will evaluate all the work you have done in "Tumplr" throughout this chapter

Where we started the subject of misleading ads, which is one of the important topics in our time in light of the evolution in the use of social media.I talked about the relationship between the advertiser and the consumer and how ads affect the lives of people in general as well as how to deal with these ads and how to overcome them. I also show examples of some companies that use misleading advertising to promote their products

As for the second topic where he talks about the impact of the digital world on the identity of young people with the development of digital means, where she talked about the direct impact on identity and what changes are taking place in them. And what problems are caused by change in identity. In addition, what young people must do to preserve their cultural identity.

In the third topic I spoke about the use of social media as social support. For example, social media have a positive impact on adolescents with mental health problems, the opportunity to make friends, and to find adequate support through the use of social networking sites.

In the fourth topic talked about users of social networking programs and their ability to provide their own information for these applications or companies, which represents some of the risk in addition to the infringement of privacy and also use those companies for personal information and data for the purposes of profitability.

The fifth topic talks about an analysis of McDonald's. Where I discussed the company's strengths, weaknesses and opportunities, as well as suggestions for company-level development in the use of social media. From this analysis I learned to focus on analyzing performance and good planning before starting any work

The sixth topic talks about influencing social media. And what is the actual influence that makes the activists famous in these means. Where the effect may be positive and may be negative. I learned from this topic is to follow up the actual influencers who have benefited from them in the future

I talked about the seventh topic on populism in social media .we know social media have become a part of people's lives, where they found a way to communicate, and a platform for exchange of views, which is fun for the person who is the accountant or follower, has achieved a lot of young people of fame and extravagance exceeded the stars of art and media celebrities, if measured by the number of followers and reactors, Hundreds of thousands and even millions, but few of them have a meaningful message to the community or address issues of concern to people.

In the eighth topic I read and analyzed a study on the use of Twitter application in various devices or through the message and type and source, where the study in 2012, 2013 and 2014 and analyzed the use of companies and individuals to Twitter and how to use companies to Twitter to promote their products and We did a mental map design to illustrate the parts of the study.

In the Ninth and final topic, I talked about the issues that the Omani society suffers and the main media do not talk about them. I chose the issue of education and its problems and what are the equipment's that lack some schools in different parts of the Sultanate.

In the end, all of these topics, which Dr. Sonia chose us to express our views in addition to our awareness of its importance at the moment

Where I have benefited many of them and that will refine my culture and media personalities.

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last post { All topics I wrote in Tumbler } & Evaluation of my own work

name : Muhallab Alamri 

ID : 106697 

date : 27 of NOV 2018

number of words : 518

There are many important media issues that we have discussed in this course. When we deal with the media as a major issue, we are engaged in the most influential ideas on humanity since it was … It is no accident that minds change, , That studied word rising from a television set or from writing or from a cinema, for example. Wherever the newly-created word is, the world is listened to

 It can be said that the media is the most influential project that has progressed and has become so glamorous, but also diverged to the extent that increased its effects, and the subordination of the human, and affected by, but the recognition that The title of the variable and the belief and life in general.

 Among these are the issues that we have talked about it :

 Misleading :

 Some call it misleading advertising, others call it wrong, and the majority prefer to label it as unethical because it separates reality from advertising. The ad describes a certain state of fantasy that is supposed to become realistic when the viewer decides to buy the advertised product. The ad remains an ad, and the product remains as it is, without any fancies. Many may know this as a general rule of advertising in general, but others have decided not to remain silent about it.

  Freely providing personal information :

 From my humble point of view, I see media and marketing as two sides of a single coin, but

 they are all working in its own sphere. The media is wider, targeting wider and broader categories, and promoting a number of theories in one, while marketing targets a specific category or categories, and its spread is limited within a narrow geographical area.

 Media is the road paved for sale, even if the media used marketing campaigns suitable to know the public what the product and increased sales

 Influencers :

 Social and cultural factors that have not been recognized by the Arab community before, including the spread of the phenomenon of harassment that has invaded Arab society in a frightening manner, which has become a serious threat to security and stability, especially as it may lead to serious crimes such as murder, kidnapping and rape. Have serious health and psychological consequences for the victims and may prompt them to take repressive aggressive actions against what has happened to them by society.

 Populism :

 Common on popular social media outlets is the famous saying that they stopped making fools famous, and the prevalence of this evidence is a sign of widespread discontent from the fact that social media has already contributed to making many ordinary people famous

 Evaluation of my own work :

 Some of the issues I could not understand at first, but after the depth and the attempt was able to reach the problem that we will talk about. I was keen to provide sufficient information and support the article pictures. And most important of all, I was always the first beneficiary when I get deeper and understand the root of the problem and its causes and consequences