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Business: Social Media
Primary focus:
to read business-related texts that young people can identify with
to learn about the positive and negative things of social media
to reflect about how the use of social media can affect a young person's life
to reflect on how fake news on social media may affect democracy and world events
to learn about the four major social media platform companies and their business models
Kernetekster:
The poem called Look Up by Gary Turk, From Where You Are2, Systime 2022. (Originally publ. in 2014).
Cyberbullying: How anonymous attacks changed me forever, by Charlotte Philby, From Where You Are2, Systime 2022. (Originally publ. in The Independent, 10 August 2014).
Interview with a Troll, by Whitney Phillips, From Where You Are2, Systime 2022. (Originally publ. in billions-and-billions.com, 28 May 2012).
The day I confronted my troll by Leo Traynor, From Where You Are2, Systime 2022. (Originally publ. on theGuardian.com, 26 September 2012).
Social media apps are 'deliberately' addictive to users, by Hillary Andersson, the BBC Panorama online, 4 July 2018, https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44640959.
Addictive potential of social media, explained by Bruce Goldman, Stanford.edu online, 29 October 2012, https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44640959
The Social Dilemma, Docudrama, directed by Jeff Orlowski, Netflix, 2020.
Group work and presentations on the four major social media companies:
Groups 1 + 2: Facebook
Who is Mark Zuckerberg? Lucas Downey, Investopedia.com, 19 June 2022.
What is Facebook? Daniel Nations, Lifewire.com, 19 September 2021.
Groups 3 + 4: Instagram
Who is Mark Zuckerberg? Lucas Downey, Investopedia.com, 19 June 2022.
7 Reasons why Instagram is the best social media app to use, Khizer Kaleem, makeuseof.com, 4 Feb. 2022.
Groups 5 + 6: TikTok
TikTok: What it is, How it works, and why it’s popular, Deborah D’Souza, www.investopedia.com, 5 July 2022.
TikTok’s ties to China: Why concerns over your data are here to stay, Dan Milmo, the Guardian.com, 7 Nov. 2022.
Groups 7 + 8: Twitter
What is Twitter & How does it work? Paul Gil, www.lifewire.com, 29 August 2021.
Why is Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover increasing hate speech? Rashawn Ray, www.brookings.edu, 23 Nov. 2022.
Supplerende stof:
Creative task: Write your own poem about social media (in pairs)
Video: How Russian Trolls Operate, youtube, published 2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=psmpWVuCb8s
Written assignment about social media - argumentative essay
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