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!. Hong Kong Virtual Protests

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_social_network https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on_social_media

Hong Kong Virtual Protests. How video games such as animal crossing and social media was used to have protests online after Covid.

2. "Trending" politics within media and backlash for not supporting them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_activism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_shaming#Call-outs_and_cancellation

People, brands, companies will be called out and face backlash for not stating a certain opinion. This could be seen during BLM movement, all organizations felt the need to come out with statements to show their solidarity with others in the movement.

3. Voter systems across counties

4. Social media as a form of information and news

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on_social_media

Social media has become a source of information. Activists, corporations, news, all use social media platforms to connect with views and get information out quickly.

5. State run media https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_India

Article Evaluation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_of_the_COVID-19_pandemic_on_social_media

The information is very up to date but missing key parts of social media that happened during the pandemic. I think Black Lives Matter should be added to this page as the murder of George Floyd was shared and watched over social media platforms. In addition, voting initiatives are currently broadcasted on every platform to get people registered.

I think the idea as a whole needs to be more detailed and fleshed out. Social media has definitely seen an increase in use due to the pandemic and has created to need to be completely connected online more than every before. There are lots of good examples of this but the idea isn't as developed as it could be.

In the chat there were lots of good additions. One included lots of links about censorship in China, another the idea of including a hashtags section, and one making the key point that this is the first pandemic with social media.

Finalize your topic/find your sources
There are many sources in this page that need to be checked for reliability. Many of the links are websites with no explicit authors or link to where to get more information. Some lead straight to facebook accounts and need to be checked as well. As I continue to research I hope to find and add more reliable citations to the article.

One of the topics I would like to add is about how Covid-19 forced lots of conversations to happen online as people could not get together in person. One of these conversations was racial justice. A video of George Floyd's murder was shared on all social media platforms and lead to lots of political outcry. People showed their solidarity for the black community with "black out tuesday" where users changed their profile picture and posted a black screen. Links to petitions for justice for Brenona Taylor's death quickly circulated as well as Ahmaud Arbery around social media. Social media became a powerful tool for spreading awareness and information.

The ease of civic action sparked a new raise of awareness in teens and adolescents. The ability to see and learn something on a phone as well as the ease of resharing it has seen a positive increase in teens engagement. Youth are much more likely to use humor and creativity such as memes to present their views. This could be changing how society starts to view and approach politics as this format allows more people to be reached as more people like and reshare funny posts. COVID has forced many adolescents to be online and this interaction allows them to reach a much larger audience than if they were in school only interacting with their their close peers.

Sources: https://medium.com/an-injustice/blackouttuesday-showcases-perfomative-allyship-2a86edee712f

https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/6/24/21300631/instagram-black-lives-matter-politics-blackout-tuesday

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/arts/music/what-blackout-tuesday.html

https://www.unicef.org/globalinsight/media/706/file/UNICEF-Global-Insight-digital-civic-engagement-2020.pdf

https://eprints.qut.edu.au/5056/1/5056_1.pdf

https://medium.com/swlh/viral-coronavirus-misinformation-attacks-on-social-media-fb331d4fd0a5 — Preceding unsigned comment added by Go23bears (talk • contribs) 08:24, 30 September 2020 (UTC)

Ethan Pak Peer Review
Hello! Overall, I think your drafts brought interesting insight and connections with the current pandemic and shift the increase in politics in social media. While this is a unique perspective, I think your draft does not necessarily link the two together. More specifically, it would be very beneficial to find articles that may link the rise in online activism to our the conditions of our current pandemic, or why our pandemic facilitates the rise in online activism. As it stands now, these topics seem a bit out of place. I read that you did include a paragraph about the decline in influencer content and how that could lead to an increase in social media activism, which is a very logical explanation, but there was not a source attributed to it. If you could just link that source, I think it would be really helpful and informative. Additionally, on the topic of sources, I think it would be beneficial if you link your sources after the sentence that you got information from, just to avoid any confusion for someone reading the article. Finally, just some grammar suggestions - consider changing "became" to "has become" in the first sentence and continue to capitalize Facebook in the second paragraph. Overall, though, your introduction was very well done and insightful, while being brief and your tone was very encyclopedic. Hope this helps! Ethanpak (talk) 02:43, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Ria Vora Peer Review
Hi! I peer reviewed your article :) I thought you had really solid information about Twitter, Facebook, and BLM. For improvement, I think the structure could be more clear with headers, as well as there seems to be a bias in the tone towards the benefit of social media platforms. Other than that, I think it will make a substantial contribution to the article, great job! RiaVora (talk) 07:35, 14 October 2020 (UTC)

Response to Peer Reviews
Each peer review was very helpful and addressed different parts of my article that had issues. My first comment addressed the placement of my sourcing. Making sure I tag my sources right after I use the information is important not only for plagiarism but to show credibility. I am going to add more tags, as I would only tag a source just at the end of a paragraph. Looking at other people's articles helped me as I saw other users tagging one source multiple times after each sentence they used the source even if it was in the same paragraph.

Another comment was on my tone and its bias. This was a helpful comment for me as reading and editing my article on my own I couldn't see it. I need to revise my tone so that its less biased and more encyclopedic.

The most helpful comment was pointing out how I never fully connected my two points of Social media politics and COVID 19. I give examples and provide background on each separately, but I never synthesize them together. To do this I'm am going to research more sources that discuss these ideas together. I will also make sure to write it in neutral tone that is informative and not persuasive.

One comment I received was about the relevance of Black Lives Matter in this article. I think this comment is helpful in the sense that I do not need to give background on this topic as there are other articles about Black Lives Matter. I plan to link to those other wikiarticles instead of creating my own summary. Yet, I think that it was the largest online political movements during COVID and I'm going to include it but add more sources supporting this argument instead of BLM information.

Thank you all for reading my article making comments! They were all very helpful to me improving my article! — Preceding unsigned comment added by Go23bears (talk • contribs) 15:54, 20 October 2020 (UTC)