User:Lkd36/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
 * Social media use in politics


 * Article Evaluation
 * I think this article needs more sources and it misses some key points that should be included, such as how there are gender disparities among social media usage in politics, how it leads to protests, or perhaps the notion that perhaps candidates and politicians are using social media to reach out to a younger audience because they need more support. Overall, the sources are a bit outdated as well, there are only a couple sources from 2017 which was the latest year. Also, I think there should be some information on how currently Donald Trump is using social media (without introducing bias of course) and how it affects the decisions that he makes, others make, and how other countries make.


 * Sources
 * https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article/17/3/319/4067682
 * https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1940161212471716
 * http://web.pdx.edu/~mev/PS%20399%20WIN%202020/Bode.pdf

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Online social movement


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article does not have many sources and it presents a biased point of view. Although it mentions online social movements and various examples of such, such as the Black Lives Matter and ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, the article fails to discuss how the controversy around social media as a platform and as a tool plays into social movements and how these social movements were any different from social movements offline.
 * Sources
 * https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0736585312000226
 * https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2F0DDC68282955AB35317FB683D38D57/S0008423913000838a.pdf/fair_copyright_for_canada_lessons_for_online_social_movements_from_the_first_canadian_facebook_uprising.pdf
 * https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/2F0DDC68282955AB35317FB683D38D57/S0008423913000838a.pdf/fair_copyright_for_canada_lessons_for_online_social_movements_from_the_first_canadian_facebook_uprising.pdf

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Something about the commodification of data


 * Article Justification
 * This is one article that I think should be on Wikipedia because of how surveillance is collected in the United States and the rest of the world. There are a lot of private companies out there that make a profit of the data of people living in the country, citizens or not. Data is personal and private companies should not be allowed the access to it and be able to make bank of it. This article could also include something about cookies, because most of the pages that we access use cookies. Although some pages ask for permission to use cookies and accept the terms/conditions, many still provide you access to the page; therefore, there might be some stealing of data and usage of cookies-even if you did not agree to it! I think the commodification of data also can relate to similar issues of the commodification of security and privacy, among others.


 * Sources
 * https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/2174/1158
 * https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3186347
 * https://english.wrr.nl/binaries/wrr-eng/documents/investigation/2016/04/28/exploring-the-boundaries-of-big-data/V032-Exploring-Boundaries-Big-Data.pdf#page=90