An artist for a card game followed "the wrong" people on social media and was shouted down, and ended up shutting down her online presence. What might the complications be when we include "Russian Bots" in the mix?
The 2020 Presidential race has already begun to heat up with many hats thrown into the ring. One person is already standing out to me, all from a "deleted tweet." Where do they stand today, where will they stand tomorrow? Wil the Party pull the strings?
We've all heard the story of the Boy who cried "Wolf," right? What about when news stories culminate around crimes that turn out to be done by the ones who called it out? There are plenty of examples of this. How are we to react?
Advertising is a huge industry in the world today. I read an essay from 2004 talking about advertising bans on alcohol and tabacco. It sparked some thoughts that I share today.
Russia paid to advertise in our 2016 election. What's our stance on political advertising within the U.S., State to State? What is our stance pushing political stances from one community to another? What effect does social media have on this? What about from one country to another?
Religous Zealots are within all sorts of different religions. How do we react to different Religous Zealots within each religion? What is our neighbor's and our own responsibility to educate ourselves and others on zealots?
Many jobs these days are facing the thread of Machine Learning/Aritificial Intelligence. How much emotion is removed when using a computer? What small intricacies within the basics of doing our jobs do we lose when letting the computer take the wheel?