As it is national suicide awareness reading, I found it very fitting for our reading to be on how technology has been working to fight against suicide. I do not have much experience using reddit but have started to look into it more now that it has been brought up several times in my esociety class. It is genius that they have utilized such an easily acceptable, user friendly platform to help reach out to those struggling. Having as many outlets and resources available is so important as feeling alone is one of the major symptoms of those who end up committing suicide. It connects people with others who are willing to listen and give advice. It is also not always professionals so it could be more personal and less clinical. But, this thread is heavily monitored by professionals due to the seriousness of the situation and to make sure that trolls and other people who are not doing a service are not unececarily involved or harming people in need.
Updates on out Wiki "Stub"
To expand on what we learned last week about Wikipedia, this week in class we checked back in on our pages that we edited and were to attempt to add an image. My group in particular was shocked to discover that the page we edited was still fully intact. This was shocking considering our topic had to do with suicide and was a very sensitive topic. And in addition, we added a whole other category of information as it was originally only gothic music’s effect on suicide and we added 500 words on how country music has similar effects. We did notice that after we posted, our page was flagged for review. I think no action has been made so far due to the fact the page was a “stub” and not really developed due to lack of interest and it was an obscure topic. We really struggled with adding a photo due to the reuse rules and it seems difficult to keep an image up there unless you own the rights to the image. Wikimedia
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