May 7 Questions
1) In Missed Connections: What Search Engines Say About Women, Safiya Umoja Noble says "Try searching for 'Latinas,' or 'Asian women,' and the results focus on porn, dating, and fetishization" (Noble, 40). How does this perpetuate stereotypes about these groups of people? To what extent are the identities of these minorities shaped by online search engines?
2) In How Did Social Media Unite and Empower DREAMers?, Basma Basma writes "This platform provided a space for individuals to come out and speak about issues with others who felt similarly" (Basma, 2016). This perspective is quite different from Noble's article. What negative effects do you think social media might have for these minority youth?
3) In Monstrous Children of Pregnant Androids: Latinx Futures After Orlando, Micha Cardenas says "Hacking kinship may be one way that the millions of Latinx people facing deportation from the United States today may be provided with actual sanctuary" (Cardenas, 29). In what ways can social media be used as a platform to help undocumented individuals?
4) In Missed Connections: What Search Engines Say About Women, Safiya Umoja Noble mentions "Google applications like Gmail and social media sites like Facebook track your identity and previous searches to unearth something slightly different" (Noble, 39). If this is true, why do you think inappropriate results are obtained for searches related to some minority women groups?
2) In How Did Social Media Unite and Empower DREAMers?, Basma Basma writes "This platform provided a space for individuals to come out and speak about issues with others who felt similarly" (Basma, 2016). This perspective is quite different from Noble's article. What negative effects do you think social media might have for these minority youth?
3) In Monstrous Children of Pregnant Androids: Latinx Futures After Orlando, Micha Cardenas says "Hacking kinship may be one way that the millions of Latinx people facing deportation from the United States today may be provided with actual sanctuary" (Cardenas, 29). In what ways can social media be used as a platform to help undocumented individuals?
4) In Missed Connections: What Search Engines Say About Women, Safiya Umoja Noble mentions "Google applications like Gmail and social media sites like Facebook track your identity and previous searches to unearth something slightly different" (Noble, 39). If this is true, why do you think inappropriate results are obtained for searches related to some minority women groups?
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