Having a guideline is crucial for content traffic, I believe that evryone should have a chance to express their opinion on a topic and not be judged. But the reality is cruel, in recant years we saw so many examples of people get canceled. Sometimes it could get out of controll just because one person would get offended or words would be talken from a contest. That’s why one of the person who I personaly like for making fun of this is Ricky Gervais and him hosting the Golden Globe in 2020. I could say that some of his points were a bit extreme, but the reason he did it is to show how ridiculisesometimes public opinion can get. So what if user want to share thoutghs without endangering oneself and their lifes, carear, etc. In this case anonymity would be a usefull tool, of course it could be used by trolls and people who just likes to hurt others, but if used appropriately it migth actually be usefull for content creator, it could help see any flaws and make sure that he/she will not do it again. As Maria Konikova says in her article “forty per cent of people in the eighteen-to-twenty-nine-year-old demographic have posted anonymously”  which only proves that this option should be avaliable at comment section of websote, so that people would be encouraged to share their opinion and help community to become better. In Guardian article “The dark side of Guardian comments” , author suggests that it would be just easier if you would ignore comments, I see where is point is comming from, and I wish the answer to solve all problems was that simple, but it would be just wrong to cut all connections with yout audience, sometimes we can make mistakes not intentionally and it would be nice to have a community which supports you and provides constructive feedback to insure that you will not do same error.

References:

Gardiner, B., Mansfield, M., Anderson, I., Holder, J., Louter, D., & Ulmanu, M. (2016, April 12). The Dark Side of Guardian comments. The Guardian. Retrieved April 6, 2023, from https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/apr/12/the-dark-side-of-guardian-comments

Konnikova, M. (2013, October 23). The psychology of online comments. The New Yorker. Retrieved April 6, 2023, from https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/the-psychology-of-online-comments 

This week reading about misinformation on internet started my brainstorm process towards the essay topic for PUB101. After reading article by Wu Peiyue about how a Chinese fantasy novelist Yifan wrote a fake article about Russian history for 10 years, I was impressed. This authore created over 200 articles and convinced many people that it was real. Such news makes an idea of cryticle thinking more important. The introduction of internet gave people power to make their thoughts public and what was impossible before, now is a reality. People are able to share their ideas and dreams with millions of people around the globe. Article by Drew Harwell and Joseph Menn “Harvard is shutting down project that studied social media misinformation” are talking how Twitter and public opinion could shape reaserches and what they are saying. Considering the fact that in the article by Jeffrey Gottfried and Jacob Liedke, they say that half of younf users in the US are trusting online sources, it makes me wonder what power those people who speaks publicly hold and how they could shape the course of our society development.

Considering all of this, this week I spent going back through all post I wrote so far and making sure that I would leave a link to my source where it would be applicable so that people who see my websote could be sure that what I am saying and my opinion is more or less based on words of respectable people.

References

Peiyue, Wu. 2022. “She Spent a Decade Writing Fake Russian History. Wikipedia Just Noticed.

Harwell, D., & Menn, J. (2023, February 3). Harvard is shutting down project that studied social media misinformation. The Washington Post. Retrieved March 3, 2023, from https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/02/02/misinformation-harvard-donovan-close/

Gottfried, J., & Liedke, J. (2022). Trust in social media is changing. here’s how it breaks down by age. World Economic Forum. Retrieved March 3, 2023, from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/11/social-media-adults-information-news-platforms/

As I mantioned in process post #10 I started to take a closer look in plugins that are avaliable and migth hellp user to enhance their expirince. So far I took a look at plugins called  All in One SEO, still have to learn how to navigate it, but it is a tool to optimize SEO and make website show in a higher search result, which might come in handy if I choose to continue posting.

Regarding this week reading, we had an article Pokemon as Transmedia Storytelling, in which author xplores how Pokemon has maintained its popularity over the years, citing transmedia storytelling as a key factor due to its ability to appeal to various age groups and facilitate effective marketing. This success illustrates the value of interrelation across various domains and media. To incorporate this technique into their own website, the author suggests implimenting more visual elements, such as photos, videos, and graphics, to enhance the transmedia storytelling and presentation of information.

Considering the fact that my websote is about movies and TV shows, it might be usefull to impliment diffrent media to keep user involved in my content, maybe even start doing podcasts to provide audio of what I am writing about, so that more users would be able to consume my content.

References:

Pokemon as transmedia storytelling. kevinbrittenylauren.wordpress.com. (2013, November 21). Retrieved April 6, 2023, from https://kevinbrittenylauren.wordpress.com/2013/11/21/pokemon-as-transmedia-storytelling/

This week I decided to take a closer look at plugins that are avalible and mitgh be usefull to impliment inmy websote, so far I decided that a plugin called One Click Accessibility would be a nice addition to my websote. This widget gives user an option to change the colors of the pages and well as font size to make it more readable. The nice touch is that it also works fine on a phone version of the website. As Sam Hollingsworth said in his article “15 reasons why your business absolutely needs seo“, “User experience has become every marketer’s number one priority.” And even though I am a bit scepticle that anybody outside of PUB101 will see my website, it is still a nice touch to make sure that user will get as pleasent expirinece as possible.

Talking about users also, this week we were introduced to Google Analytics, it is a nice website that shows all information about users that visiting my web. The strange thing is that is shows that almost a quarter of all my users are coming from France. Considering that I am trying to make my website browsing expirience a pleasant time spender, I still hope that it is not actuall international user and somebody just using VPN while browsing my website, but just incase I added a plugin that translates my website text in to French.

P.S. Profiter de regarder

References:

Hollingsworth, S. (2021, August 9). 15 reasons why your business absolutely needs seo. Search Engine Journal. Retrieved March 25, 2023, from https://www.searchenginejournal.com/why-seo-is-important-for-business/248101/#close

This week reading “Digital breadcrumbs: the data trail we leave behind us” brings concerns of our private life and what in the era on cellphone is shared with public. Most of the activity we do with our phone requires a location in one way or another, there is a constant trackong of where we are and what we are doind to a certain extend. For instance most sites right now ask permition to use “coockies”, sounds delicious let’s hope it has a chocolate chip in it, but in reality it saves information about what you were looking for and later this information could be used to target user and shpw them similar iteams they might be interested in. Have you notice a new phrasing on iphone when you download a new app, it does not ask you if you give permission for collectiing info, now it say “ask app not to track you”, it is put in such nice wor but in the end you can not be sure if app will follow your wish, since you did not explicitly say DO NOT track me. Social media comapanies are implementing options that give you a chance to sign in in app using your Facebook account, which only makes ther data server save more info about you.

Of course it may sound intimidating, there is always a doubt that big firms will be honest and will not use your private information to harm it user. And I do not mind most of the time for my data to be collected about me, I would rather see something in my firld of interest than a completly random stuff. (As long as it is not Meta, all the scandals around it makes me weirdly worried, and that’s why I barely use it )

References

Philip, G., Lazo, J., Jamali, R., & Jaroodi, R. (n.d.). Digital Breadcrumbs: The data trail we leave behind us. Pod Academy. Retrieved March 21, 2023, from http://podacademy.org/podcasts/digital-breadcrumbs-our-data-trail/

This week I dedicated most of my time of PUB101 homeowrk to developing my ideas for essay that is comming next week. After this week reading I decided to pursue the topic AI and it use in our life. I like the fact that in the on a main page of ChatGPT that is created by OpenAi company there is a dedicated section for a its limitations that states that it could provide answer that is pausible-sounding but incorrect or nonsensical. It’s a nice point that acknowledge its user that he/she should not trust evrything that AI it giving back to user requst. Even on the starting line on this website it states that “ChatGPT is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response” and the word follow is in my opinion a key to its use, this AI is not an independed entity by itself, is comes up with a follow up respond that is based on input and should not be treated as a fact.

But considering all of it, I am curious to see where this new technology will lead us. By htis point there is already so many discussionaround it and how people are using it. There is already a signed pertiotion to postpone AI use signed by Steve Wozniak and Elon Musk, which already signals that it is not quite reafy to beimplemented in daily use. Never the less the amount of talking it causes, like all these memes on internet where professor at university assignes 50 page essay to his students cause half of the class already used ChatGPT on their last assignments or how some people uses AI to write a code for a game mode. The last example is interesting cause creator made a video about it and showed that beofre ChatGPT was able to provide a decent answer, he spent a lot of time an iterations to make AI give him a working prototype. Which is cohirant with my opinion that AI is a nice thing and only as a additional tool and it will not make any good in a long run if user does not have a required skills set and knowledge to understand what he/she been given.

References:

Introducing chatgpt. Introducing ChatGPT. (2022, November 30). Retrieved March 10, 2023, from https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt