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Date: Tuesday, 10 November

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This is my third #VideoBlog about Hashtag Activism Challeng, which i choose:

#MAAD & #white_Ribbon

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The Krone Virus Crisis has not been easy for the world and Oman in particular. In addition, it caused the total closure of some shops, which led to huge losses.

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https://youtu.be/YB5E2qOa1to

Today documentaries are produced on the Coruna virus and its events.

Have tuners started writing dramatic films that represent this virus?

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Discussing two hypotheses

Date: Tuesday, May 5, 2020

ID: 115944

Number of words: 305

Hypothesis 1 - Citizens have the right to know:

Today, the citizen has the right to obtain correct and accurate information from its reliable sources.And discussing various issues with more transparency with the citizen, as society relies on the media to communicate the real and realistic picture of these events that happen in the state and confirm health information, the facts can raise people's awareness and may increase the fear and anxiety of the citizen the absence of the official spokesman or source The official helps the spread of rumors and the citizen obtaining incorrect information from unreliable sources that may exacerbate the problem and control public opinion, which may negatively affect the relationship of citizens with state institutions.

Hypothesis 2 - Citizens do NOT need to know everything:

Many governments, especially Arab ones, believe that the citizen does not need to know everything. Each country has its own peculiarities. We must not publish something to the citizens because it negatively affects the citizen and the state. There is a lot of information that should not be published and the citizen does not need to know in the first place, such as secret information related to the state and its affairs, and some economic information such as the details of the state budgets, political information between countries and information Security, especially in wars.

Solutions to balance the two hypotheses

It is better to balance between the first and second hypothesis, that the citizen has the right to obtain the correct information about the country on which he lives, to discuss corruption issues and prevent the spread of rumors and the development of the state, and also there is information that the citizen does not need to know and should not be announced, such as sensitive security information and details of state budgets, And some political information

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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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How dose the Social media influence economy!?

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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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After a trip into the world of recycled furniture, I made my story for you and changed my view of recycling

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Hate Speech

ID: 115944

Date: April 14, 2020

Number of words: 335

Title: Hate Speech

How to identify hate speech in media content?

Discrimination and hate speech can be known via the internet and social media by knowing the discourse that incites violence, or the spread and promotion of hatred, or even taking harmful action towards an ethnic or national group away from objectivity, so that content appears prejudice and intolerance towards race, gender, age or disability.

Is its free speech or hate speech that is practiced?

Incitement speeches with their various forms are among the most controversial topics when talking about their relationship to freedom of expression, and how to separate the legal expression that is considered a human right and the illegal expression that incites hatred. In some countries, hate speech is considered an expression of opinion and a human right and some Countries considered hate speech a crime punishable by law. There are international standards for separating hate speech, incitement, and freedom of expression permitted

Look at it particularly in social media and related to the corona virus?

The social networking platform "Twitter" is witnessing a record increase, by 900% of hate speech against China and its people after the outbreak of the Corona virus, according to a report conducted by the company (L1ght) specialized in measuring hatred on the Internet, where US President Donald Trump stated through his Twitter account that the Corona virus As the "Chinese virus", and in a press conference in which he said we are witnessing important developments in our war against the Chinese virus.

The understanding:

Freedom of expression is a necessity and a right of human rights, but according to certain criteria and a law that deters hate speech and incitement. I personally considered that hate speech and incitement is not freedom of expression as it is touched upon by some like America because it infringes on human rights and is considered a form of distinction and in the absence of means Social communication and the absence of the law that regulates freedom of expression of opinion will increase racism and hate speech between groups and individuals.

References:

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3077376/coronavirus-prompts-surge-hate-speech-toward

https://www.cfr.org/backgrounder/hate-speech-social-media-global-comparisons

https://theconversation.com/there-are-differences-between-free-speech-hate-speech-and-academic-freedom-and-they-matter-124764

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Wrap-up all the topics:

Written by: Muzna Ali Alhadi

ID: u112796

Date: Nov 27,2018

Number of words:466

wrap-up all the topics:

misleading ads:

There are misleading ads that mislead people with guaranteed and unrealistic results. This is illustrated by the claim that the effect of the product will appear in a very short period of time Such as skin whitening creams ads that illusion women it can lighten their skin in days. These ads also confirm that it has no side effects even though they contain chemical.

YOUNG PEOPLE IDENTITY IN A GLOBAL DIGITALISED WORLD:

young people are idealizing their own lives, caught in a sea of self-disillusionment, as they are trying to construct themselves within their desired identity. It is important to attempt to let go of this unnatural, societally established concept of digital identity, and to concentrate on the concrete simplicity, for the sake of mental health and personal self-worth of the youth.

THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AS SOCIAL SUPPORT:

Fear and stereotypes about disability are deeply ingrained in our culture and people with disabilities are seldom seen as individuals beyond the framework of their disabilities.

The social media a powerful ally in changing perceptions, eliminating discrimination, and raising public awareness. They can also be used as social support.

SOCIAL MEDIA SPHERE IN THE GCC: PROVIDING FREE PERSONAL INFORMATION:

When we use virtual world networks from the beginning of our acceptance of the terms of applications We give government institutions our personal information to use whenever they need.

Influencer's content: credibility, volume, relevance:

Basma Alissa an Omani woman interested in fashion and beauty. Its beginning was in Instagram by sharing her experience in some product then she creates an account in the snapchat where it shares her diary life and places she go to shop and the restaurants that she eats in it. Basma now has 347 K followers on Instagram.

Populism versus Expertise on Social Media:

Populism in social media has changed many of the selection criteria of the person that people follow. They followed the most famous and who have largest number of followers regardless of their experience or quality of content.

hidden issues in social and mainstream media:

In Oman, social media users discuss several issues that are ignored by traditional media, such as the Internet service in Oman.

evaluation my work:

I used Tumblr for the first time in this assignment. At first I thought that writing in Tumblr was like writing news articles. I wrote statements for other people. I was looking for information from the Internet and writing it officially but week after week I noticed a development in my blogging. I was trying to understand the subject and write about it from my previous experiences and use the experiences of others and I write in a simple and clear way.

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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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Summarize and evaluate topics

Name : Mouath Omar Alnadabi

Date : 27 November, 2018

Numbers of words: 486

During the Templer project I wrote about the following topics:

- Hidden Issues in Mainstream Media

- Populism versus Expertise on Social Media

- Analyze favorite characters through content analysis

- National Geographic Channel strength & Weaknesses

- SOCIAL MEDIA SPHERE IN THE GCC: 'PEOPLE WILLINGLY PROVIDING FREE PERSONAL INFORMATION & INSTITUTIONS BENEFITTING FROM THESE INFORMATION

- THE USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA AS SOCIAL SUPPORT

- YOUNG PEOPLE & YOUR IDENTITY IN A GLOBAL DIGITALISED WORLD .

- Misleading ads with guaranteed results or clinical studies

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These addresses included different information on different topics related to the media and new means of communication.

The number of words in each publication did not exceed 300 words.

Topics included external sources, personal views, examples and many images.

I used the following hurdles throughout the project:

# Mass4025

#SQURTV

I shared topics in my social networking programs:

Instagram

Twitter

I have consistently followed my colleagues' publications.

I published all publications before 7 pm every Sunday.

In the first topic:

I talked about misleading advertising by some companies and I search from external sources of pictures, and I put the link, and use two pictures that show the difference between the form of food in the advertisement and in fact, and I use the Hachtagat and did not exceed the number of words more than 300 words .

In the second topic:

I spoke from a personal point of view and using some sources but did not use any images,

I also wrote less than 300 words.

In the third topic:

I focused on the examples and my personal point of view about the subject after looking in depth.

Topic 4:

I mentioned some examples, and spoke from a personal point of view, not more than 300 words.

Topic 5:

I talked about National Geographic Channel, I searched for all its details, I put the negatives and positives, and how to develop the channel.

Topic 6:

I talked about one of the Omani influencers who deserve more followers than I did. I searched for the personal accounts of this person, Mohammed Al Rahbi. I used two pictures for his accounts in Instagram and in Twitter. I talked about his work and about the absence of followers of his accounts.

Topic 7:

I talked about celebrities in the Omani arena, who do not deserve fame and compared them to influential figures worthy of fame. I have found evidence that Naima al-Kabali is not worthy and I mentioned the number of followers in social media and the extent of public taste decline.

Topic 8:

I wrote from my personal point of view after I followed up and searched, and I used the hacks.

In general, the use was great and we followed up and looked in depth at the topics that were put forward.

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ID: 119655

Date: Tuesday, April 28

Number of words: 325

Comics in the time of COVID-19

Analysis:

All pictures advise the audience indirectly and in a fun way about the dangers of the Corona virus and the speaker in those pictures is Corona, like: "If you do that, you will bear the consequences and these consequences make me happy."

There are no discrimination or stereotypes.

what made me choose these four illustrations?

the way it was designed attracted me, whoever watches these images cannot skip them without knowing what they stand for, due to the idea that attracts those who see it, so I chose the best illustration in this account.

The interaction was significant in the official account of the Gulf Health Council for these illustrations by the public.

And the other reason, these four pictures are all from the same account on social media, which brings together all the Gulf countries, so I chose them because they offer one view that brings together the views of all the Gulf Cooperation Council countries on common health issues.

My Views/ Understanding on the use of such cartoons and illustrations:

In light of the development of the media and its technologies and the emergence of digital design programs, they have contributed greatly to spreading awareness through them, because their effect is beneficial and can change the behavior of society, provided that the content of these illustrations and cartoons is attractive.

The four pictures I selected are all comical and fun, so anybody see it, they will have a reaction to these illustrations because they are influenced by it.

The information in these illustrations is very simple and easy to understand by the target audience.

The method of designing these illustrations and cartoon characters makes the audience take the situation seriously, through the content of these illustrations and the message that the institution wants to deliver to the public.

The creative idea in these illustrations attracts the attention of the public so it is easy to teach and sensitize them about the virus.

Sources:

Twitter: The Official Account of the Gulf Health Council @GHC_GCc

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Analyze favorite characters through content analysis

Written by: Khaled Al Mashaykhi

ID:105401

Date: October 23-2018

Number of words:289

Ali Najem (born March 25, 1989) is a Kuwaiti radio personality who is producer and director of FM Radio station in Kuwait.

Ali Najm is one of the most influential Kuwaiti media figures who has earned a good reputation. He is a radio announcer for Marina Radio for a long time and provides joyful and colorful content in the Instagram (alinajem) application. It has 2.5m on Instagram.

Now, Marina Radio is one of the best radio stations in Al-Hweet and the Arabian Gulf in the content industry and offers messages to the public in an innovative way. The radio presents the social or cultural issues that the community or people are interested in and connects to their personal lives, clear language and music, motivational voice.

His style in the modern is not manufactured, but be thoughtful and easy to reach up to all segments of society and in his way and friendly to everyone.

Always use his account in Instagram in the issues of community and important tasks and solutions that make most people love it for easy language and good vocabulary that enter the heart quickly.

People's reactions to comments are evidence that what they share has to do with their mentality and age.

In the end, everyone should be careful in choosing who wants to follow them because they are changing the thought and behavior of a person in their style and content. Some of them have meaningful content and the other content is bad. We have to think before watching them.

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Hiking in Oman it has become a popular sports for many people who love adventure.