Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Henry Jenkins and Testing Horace Mann

Henry Jenkins is an article that is concentrating on the reason why Myspace and social websites in general is necessary for teens. It discusses the reason why teens explores these sites, what they do on the site and why do they go on the sites. The article discusses how teen go on these sites to express themselves and to have their own space where they can say whatever they want to say and no one can restrict them. If these social websites are safe and how easy is it for pr editors to get through to these teens and try and abduct them. " Regardless of medium, the humiliation occurs when the entire school or social community knows of the attack; Myspace and other online mediums may help spread rumors faster, but they have always spread in the halls of school pretty quick. No one of any age enjoys being the target of public tormenting, but new media is not to blame for peer-to-peer harassment simply because it makes it more visible to outsiders" I agree with this quote completely, alot of things are blamed on the media or social networking sites. If these sites were not around people would find another way to spread rumors or pass information that is not suppose to be passed around." The media coverage of predators on Myspace implies that 1)all youth are at risk of being stalked and molested because of MySpace 2) prohibiting youth from participating on MySpace will stop predators from attacking kids. Both are misleading; neither is true. In the article Testing Horace Mann i think situations wear the children are using FB for bad things to torment their teacher is terrible and I think the children involved should get in trouble no matter who the parents are. I think that if these social network sites are used constructively then the teens should be allowed to roam the sites freely. There is more good that comes from these sites than bad.

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