Blog Post 2 Prompts (Social Media)

In your second blog post, summarize a social media controversy or phenomenon and take a position on the specific role that social media played in the events you describe. In taking a position, reflect on the relationship between media technology and human relationships by responding to one of the following questions:

Does social media simply reveal a social dynamic that already existed among those implicated in the controversy?

Does it magnify already existing dynamics in any way and if so, to what specific extent?

Does it create a new social dynamic where none existed before? And if so, how can you be certain of this “newness?”

Please note: you may not discuss any controversies we have covered in class so far, such as those related in the Reply All episodes and the Stephen Marche article.