User:Gracie15/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * TikTok Activism


 * Article Justification
 * Since it's conception, TikTok (social media platform similar to vine) has been used by young people, mainly preteens and teenagers but also by young adults, in order to, among many other things, raise awareness for certain causes. Young people use this platform to create videos spreading awareness about topics like climate change, misogyny, generational divides, and US politics in often satirical, ironic or humorous ways. This platform is only growing in importance for how young millenials and Gen Z'ers express their political opinions and frustrations. Even news outlets like the Washington Post have Tiktok accounts that they use to humorously spread news and connect with younger generations who probably aren't inclined to read their more traditional news outlets.


 * Sources
 * https://www.cnn.com/2019/10/02/business/tiktok-school-shootings-trnd/index.html
 * Lhendup G Bhutia. (2020, January 31). TikTok Politics. Open (India).
 * Ilya Banares. (2019). Young people are using TikTok videos to talk about the election. The Toronto Star (Toronto, Ontario).
 * https://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/article/fa349327-bdee-489b-ae44-da4f808d82b8

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Online Gender Based Violence (or Online Sexism)


 * Article Justification
 * While Wikipedia has articles covering domestic violence, sexism, and sexism and video games, there is no page related to online sexism or online gender based violence. Anyone who spends time online has either seen or experienced sexism and misogyny in various forms. This problem is attributed to a lot of different things including the individual platform's lack of regulations and policies meant to combat this, the users who are spewing out this sexist and hateful rhetoric, and the huge companies who are ultimately making a profit of all of it. This issue is insanely important as we continue to navigate and discover more things about the internet and technology and how we are going to regulate it. There are so many people and organizations fighting to combat online sexism and online gender based violence that deserve recognition for their achievements and efforts.


 * Sources
 * Fox, J., Cruz, C., & Lee, J. Y. (2015). Perpetuating online sexism offline: Anonymity, interactivity, and the effects of sexist hashtags on social media. Computers in Human Behavior, 52, 436-442.
 * Sills, S., Pickens, C., Beach, K., Jones, L., Calder-Dawe, O., Benton-Greig, P., & Gavey, N. (2016). Rape culture and social media: Young critics and a feminist counterpublic. Feminist Media Studies, 16(6), 935-951.
 * Pavan, E. (2017). Internet intermediaries and online gender-based violence. In Gender, technology and violence (pp. 62-78). Routledge.

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Save the Internet (Save the Internet)


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article is very short and incomplete, and I think the reason for it is because when I do some research on the organization "Save the Internet", I hardly find anything. I think that this needs to be expanded upon, and I think that a way to do that would be to rename the article "Organizations Fighting for Net Neutrality" because that encompasses a lot more organizations and information. By expanding this title, we would be able to include other organizations doing similar things to what "Save the Internet" is doing and therefore enrich the content of this article. Right now, it is way too short and needs a lot of expanding. I don't think this type of expansion is possible if we stay focused on this one organization.


 * Sources
 * Quail, C., & Larabie, C. (2010). Net neutrality: Media discourses and public perception. Global Media Journal, 3(1), 31.
 * Harpham, B. (2009). The role of civil society organizations in the net neutrality debate in Canada and the United States (Doctoral dissertation).
 * https://www.battleforthenet.com/
 * https://www.aclu.org/letter/150-groups-call-congress-support-net-neutrality

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