How Social Media Gives Everyday People a Voice
This week's chapter made me think a lot about my voice and who I can reach with it. In Section One, it states that blogs are popular because they “give everyday people a voice,” and I think this applies to other forms of social media as well. When I put something online I know more people will see it than if I had tried to spread the information differently. Additionally, I have the opportunity to be taken more seriously online because my voice isn't smothered by my gender or my age. People speaking up on social media have a history of making changes that wouldn't have been possible otherwise. Online, people can see wrongs and talk about them. This has become increasingly common in the past few years. Recently, a video went viral from a police officer's body cam. The video showed him and a fellow officer turning on a young Black wo man with seemingly no valid reason and killing her after she made a joke he didn't understand. This video spread so fast that people wer...