My proposal peers into the censorship perpetrated on the user and the implications. I want to explore the needs for “whitelisting” and how will it impinge on ones identity on the net.
If China is an example of suppression of information technology, where will it stop? Collectively, evolution of information and technology will fragment or slow without encompassing the whole (meaning the world). Constraint is power and apparent on social media sites as well. Who decides and why? If we are to say there is freedom then can we bring it to a standstill? Information for all?
Why is this important? I declare suppression of one or all groups leads to revolutions…good or bad we will not progress as a society without inclusion. Censorship is as old as mankind only now we can propagate across all borders, the willingness to control. We have changed the margins in which we can tolerate autonomy and now get to choose. Do you want a stake in this process? Does it matter? I feel globally there should be no boundary of information for the user. Aside from the governmental need to protect our country, military, and national defense, censorship has no place. It has bled over to our VR world, carrying the same behaviors that invoked inequalities on society.
I would welcome ideas to narrow this down or expand on issues.
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You're right that this is very broad, and I don't see an inkling of an argument that can really be made in any of this here, yet. You've either set up a binary ("censorship bad" basically), and since you will not be able to prove or disprove anything that is a binary or is a "what if" -- you have a lot of those too -- and you aren't to do a report (e.g. "here's what I found, the end"), you must seize one very specific thing/case/example, link it to something else, and argue for the validity of the observation you are making. That can certainly be something about China and censorship, but you do not have the resources, time, or ethos to make any sort of claim along the lines of the broad things/generalizations you've suggested here.
ReplyDeleteSo again, seize on something very specific, and make some sort of supportable claim that includes the "so what". Include what you plan to do (including which general topics from the course that you are going to link together) -- this means details and some depth -- what you plan to argue (this could include the argument or the research question in advance of the argument, with an hypothesis of the argument you potentially foresee), and how you plan to support the argument (which theories do you see yourself using on either side of your argument, etc).
All of those elements should be present in blog #9, yet with even more depth than I expected for blog #8, since you will have annotated sources and know how you will be using them in your argument.