Wicked Twitter

-- By PatricioMartinezLlompart - 04 Nov 2016

“Technology is neither good nor bad; nor is it neutral.” – Melvin Kranzberg, 1986

Twitter makes some kinds of evil easy. But the night I sent my first tweet I just wanted to keep up with the weather. I was home in Puerto Rico, awaiting the first tropical storm expected to crisscross the island in over a decade. With plenty of time to waste, why not join another social media network? Facebook was beginning to feel unexciting; Twitter did the trick. I still craved information and connection, sans the clutter of photo albums, rambling status updates, and event reminders. The platform soon became my preferred social media zone. A morning scroll down the timeline fed me what I wanted to know, without less or more.

I was not mindful about my relationship with technology until this class. Thinking about Twitter, I write in an initial effort to articulate my evolving thoughts on the nexus between self and Net. I discuss how the unexamined use of Twitter may be harming us, both as a society and as individuals. Does Twitter really make some kinds of evil easy? I now think it does.

Interconnecting Misinformation

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Mining Tweets

"The market sees Big Data as pure opportunity."

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