Social Action project

For my social action project i would like to do it on people who don't get a job or lose their job by something they put on the internet in the past. this has been an increasingly relevant problem. colleges and jobs now a days hire people to look at peoples social networking sights. this is more so a social media issue rather than a digital media. i would like to do this by creating a comic strip saying acting out how people put something online and an interviewing committee finding it a few years later. the years later strip will show the person whose currently accessing the pictures of the person who has posted innaproprite pictures. this will be open to adjust but another way could be creating a video acting this out. i took a class last year on editing film so i have a little bit of experience with it. i found this article at http://www.infinity-cs.com/how-social-media-effect-next-job/

discussing questions

1. What makes a person unique? 2. are you guilty of ascribing people to stereotypes? how so? 3. what will you do to try and relationship with a person and not their identities?

Social action project

I would use twitter and word of mouth to get the word out for my Social Action project. If I could get a famous person to retweet me on an issue then millions of people would have access to seeing it and it could really get the word out. Twitter is such a powerful recourse if it is used the right way. Word of mouth can also be really useful because if you get people talking about an issue and generate interest then they will continue to talk about it with others and word will spread. Both of these ideas can be very effective forms to create social action. Most people are unaware of issues going on today and if they don't know about them then how can they prevent them?

Social Action Project

There is a variety of ways one could promote justice with social media. 1. bullying is an increasing trend now a days people are made fun of for all sorts of things. whether its physical appearance, religion, or social status bullying happens in many different ways. its truly awful that people have to live with bullies and it should be stopped 2. Unjust working conditions and wages is quietly becoming a big thing. Big companies are doing all they can to work around regulated laws and overworking their employees. I recently read an article about how apple was cheating employees out of a couple thousand dollars by making them clock out but keeping them for an extra few minutes a day to be searched. This should be stopped because it isn't fair. 3. Internet privacy has also become a growing issue. Just about every american has some sort of social media account and the issue is that too many people have access to them. People can gain access to photos, personal info, or potentially credit card information with one simple click of the mouse. The question is where should the line be drawn? How much should someone be allowed to know?

Apple wages

The article I am blogging about involves people suing apple for millions of dollars because of unpaid wages. They would have to wait in line and take part in bag checks after they had clocked out. Apple's idea was right but they should've given the employees bag checks while they hadn't been clocked out. This is unjust and unfair. Members of the company are taking action now and apple would lose more than the few extra dollars they would've paid the employees. The article stated employees would wait 5 to 10 extra minutes each day which added up to them losing about 1500 dollars a year. That's a lot of money to lose by being at work and not getting anything. Apple is just trying to prevent items from being stolen so these bag checks are understandable but not paying their employees for the in convince just isn't right and should be fixed immediately.. http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=19826977