Dillon I's Corner

Hi Everyone, This past week our readings were focused on the links between healthcare and social media. We had articles that went over if social media can have positve impacts on healthcare, online healthcare and social support services, the spread of misinformation of healthcare, etc. The articles that stood out most to me were "Can Social Media Have A Positive Impact On Global Healthcare" by A. Arnold; and "Impact of Rumors or Misinformation on Coronavirus disease in Social Media by Hossain and Mazumder. These readings did not change how I use social media however they have brought some light to things I didn't have much information on before. One thing I was surprised to read was in the article by Arnold was that millenials are ditching primary healthcare in favor of social media. Many millenials are seeking on demand support for healthcare issues via social media services and if needed they will go to urgent care clinics rather than primary doctors or ERs due to ...

 Hi Everyone, Part 1: Social Media Laws and Ethics I found the articles on social media laws and ethics to be very interesting. The "Why Ethics Matter For Social Media, Silicon Valley And Every Tech Industry Leader" by Rob Dube peaked my interest the most. The article discuss if if tech companies should step in and and enfore rules and guidelines on their platforms or let the platforms grow within the communities organically. I believe that these sites should allow communities to grow organically. This is a free country with free speach, however I do believe their at the same time needs to be some regulations on hate speech.  Overall, ethics and social media laws are at the time in place in some sites and communities but not others. I believe it should be up to the platform as it currently is. Let the platforms decide how to handle this and users can choose which platforms they want to be a part of. Learning about this truly doesn't impact my and my use of social media as...

Hi Everyone, This week in our readings we learned about social media and image sharing. From things such as copyrights of images and the implications with social media to general image content online and and the engagement that it brings we learned quite a bit about the topic. Images are used in social media in many ways. People post personal images to show off what they do in their lives, things they enjoy, etc. Blog sites will post images of celebrities and things of that nature. News sites will post images that pertain to the world news they are talking about in certain articles. Images make up a huge portion of the social media world today. Social media has some negatives to the images as well. One thing that we read about was body images and how images online are impacting people. Often times we will see images of the "perfect body" when in reality these bodies just aren't physically possible for most people. People get obssessive over these things and in turn this c...