Can Social Media Resolve Social Diviisons?


 Inequality: Can Social Media Resolve Divisions?

               This essay was very interesting to read.  I was not aware that segregation still happened a lot today.  The story about Keke was sad to read because she lost her father due to gang violence.  I do not think this essay is inquiry because it is separated into sections and each section provides a lot of information but I did not read any questions.  This essay is both informative and opinioned in my opinion.

               I think this essay fits Huxley’s three directions on how to write a successful essay.  This essay was personal, objective, and universal in many ways.  I’ll start by analyzing Keke’s story.  It was personal in the fact that she lost her father and held a lot on anger due to what happened.  It is also personal because there was an interview a Hispanic fifteen year old who explained, “If it comes down to it, we have to supposedly stick to our own races… That’s just the unwritten code of high school nowadays.”  The topic of racism and segregation can be both objective and universal.  One can ask how does racism still exist today?  What are the causes of segregation?

               The essay goes on to talk about the biases in technology.  It is stated, “Society has often heralded technology as a tool to end social divisions.”  This statement is objective.  According to the essay, “New communication media often inspire the hope that they can and will be used to bridge cultural divides.  This hope gets projected onto new technologies in ways that suggest that the technology itself does the work of addressing cultural divisions.”  The topic is clearly focused on cultural division.  What is cultural division?  What causes cultural division? 

The author gets personal in the next sentence by using first person.  He states, “As I describe throughout this book, the mere existence of new technology neither creates nor magically solves new problems.  In fact, their construction typically reinforces existing social divisions.”  Objective and universal questions can be asked like, what is considered new technology?  How does it create or solve problems?  What is defined as social division?  At the end of this section, it is concluded that the internet does not have the power to reverse societal ills, but it does have the potential to make them more visible.

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