How brands and social media platforms benefit from activism and trauma
Viral violent videos have become tools for change, but the footage can also affect our mental health By Radheyan Simonpillai
May 20, 2021
Trigger warning: Tuesday, May 25 is the one-year anniversary of George Floyd’s murder, which was recorded by then 17-year-old Darnella Frazier on her cellphone. That devastating 10-minute video would circulate online and instigate a global movement.
“We would not have seen the extent of support for #BlackLivesMatter had that video not been taken and had that form of witnessing not been possible,” says University of Toronto’s Megan Boler. She is professor in the Social Justice Education department and co-editor of the book, Affective Politics Of Digital Media: Propaganda By Other Means. She connects the response to the video of George Floyd’s murder to the 1991 video of Los Angeles police attacking Rodney King. “There’s a long history of this kind of w
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OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada vowed on Thursday to make Facebook Inc pay for news content, seeking allies in the media battle with tech giants and pledging not to back down if the social media platform shuts off the country’s news as it did in Australia.
FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen placed on a keyboard in this illustration taken March 25, 2020. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Facebook blocked all Australian news content on its service over proposed legislation requiring it and Alphabet Inc’s Google to pay fees to Australian publishers for news links.
Canadian Heritage Minister Steven Guilbeault, in charge of crafting similar legislation to be unveiled in coming months, condemned Facebook’s action and said it would not deter Ottawa.
What is it that distinguishes a liberal arts education from vocational training? It’s not simply breadth of exposure to the arts, the humanities and the social and natural sciences. It’s that a liberal education is meant to be transformative.
The higher purpose of liberal education is to free its recipients to think in fresh and more analytical and informed ways, appreciate culture with sophisticated sensibilities, and bring historical, ethical, cross-cultural perspectives to current events.
The skills and knowledge a liberal education imparts include not only disciplinary methods and theoretical and conceptual frameworks, but something far greater: heightened powers of observation and communication, interpretive and research skills, and a capacity for critical self-reflection.
In today’s ExchangeWire news digest: Canada announces its intention to follow Australia in imposing a law to force digital platforms to pay for news; research from Poynter finds that Twitter’s Birdwatch is currently failing to effectively clamp down on the spread of misinformation; and Which? finds that fake Amazon reviews are being sold in bulk online.
Canada follows Australia’s lead with plans to make digital platforms pay for news
The government of Canada has announced plans for a law that will force Facebook and other digital platforms to pay for news content. Such a bill would mirror Australia’s News Media Bargaining Code, which was passed by the House of Representatives last week.
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