{"id":399,"date":"2020-01-16T04:50:48","date_gmt":"2020-01-16T01:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/trage\/?p=399"},"modified":"2022-10-13T16:11:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T13:11:04","slug":"what-would-it-take-for-me-to-return-to-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/trage\/2020\/01\/16\/what-would-it-take-for-me-to-return-to-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"What Would it Take for Me to Return to Social Media?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Johanna Norrbacka<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This blog post was produced as part of the course “Social Media, Ideologies, and Ethics in the United States” at the University of Turku. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo: Johanna Norrbacka<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

I have not been active in social media since I deactivated\nmy Facebook account at the end of 2016 or the beginning of 2017. The reason for\nmy departure was that I very strongly felt Facebook was banking the profits of\na media corporation without any regard for journalistic ethics \u2013 which I\nstrongly felt, and feel, they should have taken into account in their\noperation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the course of the lectures, both the reasons\nfor staying out of social media and the impetus for returning were present, and\nI began to contemplate what would be the kind of social media platform that I\nwould feel comfortable using. For the purpose of this blog I will henceforth\nrefer to this imaginary entity as \u201cVillage.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

There would be no political advertisements from\npolitical parties or candidates on Village. I do not believe that someone who\nis running for office, on any level of the spectrum from local to national\npolitics, can express their agenda or knowledge adequately and conclusively in a\nspan of a few seconds or minutes. I believe the voter benefits from and has the\nresponsibility to make an effort to familiarize themselves with the potential\nreceivers of their vote, and there are plenty of channels for that without a social\nmedia platform selling its ethics for advertisement money.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Instead of advertisements aspiring to convince voters\nto vote for a certain candidate, there would be advertisements and public\nservice announcements about voting and its role in democracy. I think it\u2019s about\ntime to make taking part in society compelling and even \u2013 I am writing about a\nutopia after all \u2013 chic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Algorithms would be used as a force for good, harnessed\nfor something benevolent and not merely for something commercially beneficial. People\nwould be provided with positive news, accurate information about those whose\nopinions may not totally coincide with theirs, and stories about people from\ndifferent backgrounds as a means for spreading compassion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

No trackers would be placed on other websites to\nsurvey what the users are doing, seeing, or watching online. Nor would any data\nbe collected about their browsing histories because for no reason and for no\nprice would Village users be sold out by Village. Neither would the photographs\nor personal information of its users be used for monetary gain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, I am not aware of any social media company\nthat functions according to principles that would convince me to return to\nsocial media, but I am putting my hope in the future. I look forward to seeing ever-developing\ntechnology and the demand for more options in connecting and communicating with\nothers bring alternatives and competition to the present duopoly.     <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Johanna Norrbacka This blog post was produced as part of the course “Social Media, Ideologies, and Ethics in the United States” at the University of Turku. I have not been active in social media since I deactivated my Facebook account at the end of 2016 or the beginning of 2017. The reason for my departure […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19734,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-students-blog-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/trage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/trage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/trage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/trage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/trage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=399"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/trage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/trage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/trage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/trage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogit.utu.fi\/trage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}