Guest Speaker/Media

Today in class we had a guest speaker. He talked about how in different countries many protests over the government are organized over the Internet such as Facebook and Twitter. He went on to explain social network is not just for socializing, but for social movements as well. I thought this was interesting because we were told that the US helps the activists who are videotaping the protests with encrypted things so the government can’t trace back the videos to the activists. This shows that the US can help in many ways without the army coming in.

We then went on to discuss as a class Culture Jamming which is taking things and putting a political spin on them. She gave us an example of the Nike email. Basically someone wanted to personalize their Nike shoe with “SWEATSHOP”. Nike would not agree to this because they called it inappropriate slang. I thought the series of emails were very interesting because in the end Nike ended up not responding because the person asked for a photo of the 10 year old girl making his shoes.

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