Two things. First did anyone watch Southpark last night, it was based on the election? I personally thought it was pretty funny and everyone should watch it. Secondly my vote for the most influential tool for the 2008 election had to be CNN. Where else do you "for the first time ever" have a hologram on live tv? I personally had to laugh multiple times watching the election from about 6 pm until around midnight. The amount of information they tried to bring the viewer was absurd. They had so many people plugged into computers they were getting data from around the country. I just think that this had to be the pinnacle of the media. I have never seen so much information coming from one channel. As pointed out in the reading, CNN was able to use blogs and pretty much any interesting tid bit of information found on the internet and discussion rooms was brought straight to the viewer. It came to the point of being just way to much information. One could argue either way in view of this being functional participatory actions or just useless engagement that allows individuals to pretend to be connected and important. Either way CNN was telling you all about it.
In regards to last class. I think the juicycampus definitely plays a larger role because we are a small campus. I also think that women in particular are much much more vulnerable. For the most part if your a guy you might have some slandering comments, but the majority of comments concerning women are slanderous sexual comments. Even if someone is joking making comments about stds or weird sexual encounters or if they have hooked up with a lot of people, that is going to stick a lot quicker for women. Women are much more open to long term damage. If a guy was reading something on the site and read about a girl he was with and there were comments about having stds or they are sluts, even if its slanderous, its going to invoke doubt.
But, I still believe this is an ethical issue of engagement. I still don't believe even that this goes on that it is the school responsibility or right to interfere unless physical threats are taking place. One, freedom of speech. Two, the world is not a nice place. The sooner people are able to understand this and accept that not everyone is going to love you, agree with you, or even just down right despise you. That is the way of the world.
Corey
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corey i agree with a lot of what you said. That hologram sure was something. I too spent my evening tuned into the election..CNN sure did bombard us with information. What i was most concerned about was the projected votes, but i didn't pay too much attention to all the mini interviews they were doing with the people on the computers. The ones i did listen to had some conflicting opinions, so i suppose that was kinda cool.
in regards to juicy campus i think it's ridiculous and i think the popularity of the site among kids on our campus is absurd. Aren't we a little old to be gossiping like little middle schoolers? Now on the other hand, a site such as the bishops ear is the type of site i wish kids on campus were spending their time reading. It has content and humor..it doesn't bash any student and it serves a purpose. I hope students here start paying more attention to the bishops ear because that site has a lot of potential to engage the members of the HWS community in a positive way.
-Adrienne
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