November 13th, 2020 
answers these questions according to the readings and the film-The Social Dilemma (Orlowski, 2020) on Netflix:
In her article, Gender, Sexuality and Social Media, Alice Marwick argues that:
Social media technologies like Twitter, Foursquare, Facebook and YouTube are spaces and tools that facilitate communication. Rather than presuming these technologies to be gender neutral, scholarship has demonstrated that information technologies can perpetuate norms of masculinity, business and engineering.
Discuss the points she makes in her piece to support this contention.
According to Theresa Senft and Safiya Umoja Noble, how is the concept of mis-interpellation significant in conversations about race in social media?
The film and readings for this week pinpoint many problems with digital media. Identify what you see as the two most significant takeaways from this material.
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