The person who wrote the passage “Streams of Content: Limited Attention” is named Danah Boyd. This passage was published in 2010. Boyd tries to inform the modern person by conveying a message on how people would receive information and how people use and react to it. The author uses a logical appeal, which then turns into a more ethical appeal and this makes Boyd seem much more credible. Boyd begins with stating that people should not “be a passive consumer of information” (558-559). She also states that people shouldn’t only “tune in when the time is right, but rather to live in a world where information is everywhere,” (559). Boyd uses the metaphor “Stream of information,” This metaphor means that people now live inside of this huge network
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These drawbacks are democratization, stimulation, homophily and “power”. To start things off, the problem with democratization is that major sources may switch “from a model of distribution to a model of attention,” (560). Boyd states that this is disruptive. “We may be democratizing certain types of access, but we’re not democratizing attention,” (560). She also states that people will stray away from sources that is in another language. “This means Chinese language content will soon get more attention than english content,” (561). The second issue is stimulation. Everyone has gravitated over to these social media sites to gain information. This may create different personalities within people. It can provoke internet bullies or trolls (people who are rude, or annoying for no reason). People are very different in person in comparison to online. The third reason is homophily. This is all of the “prejudice, intolerance, bigotry, and power all baked into our networks” (561) lies! Some people are rude on the Internet because they have a different view than someone else. Some people tend to get upset and act a certain way towards another person. This is almost like cyber bullying in some regards. Some people believe that some sites are specifically for one group of people. “I interviewed teens who believed that everyone on MySpace was Christian because all of
These drawbacks are democratization, stimulation, homophily and “power”. To start things off, the problem with democratization is that major sources may switch “from a model of distribution to a model of attention,” (560). Boyd states that this is disruptive. “We may be democratizing certain types of access, but we’re not democratizing attention,” (560). She also states that people will stray away from sources that is in another language. “This means Chinese language content will soon get more attention than english content,” (561). The second issue is stimulation. Everyone has gravitated over to these social media sites to gain information. This may create different personalities within people. It can provoke internet bullies or trolls (people who are rude, or annoying for no reason). People are very different in person in comparison to online. The third reason is homophily. This is all of the “prejudice, intolerance, bigotry, and power all baked into our networks” (561) lies! Some people are rude on the Internet because they have a different view than someone else. Some people tend to get upset and act a certain way towards another person. This is almost like cyber bullying in some regards. Some people believe that some sites are specifically for one group of people. “I interviewed teens who believed that everyone on MySpace was Christian because all of