Weekly News Articles 1,2,3

Social media suicide

The article is about a 18 year old  girl called Océane who live streamed her suicide and how the comments may have driven her to jump as well as the things she found difficult in life.

Océane death was the first suicide to be broadcast live which could say something about our society and how far social media may drive people in such a vulnerable sate as hers.

Perhaps the platform of social media is more dangerous than we thought.

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The Guardina view on privacy: Computers

The article talks about how people no longer have privacy online. It talks about how in China the government regulates what they use the internet for. It also goes on to talk about how "The Chinese government does not believe its citizens have any right to privacy at all."

At the same time in the US, the constitutional right to privacy has been central to culture wars of the last 50 years and it supplied the legal justification for the sexual revolution.
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How technology disrupted the truth?

This article is about how social media has taken over the news where "everyone has their own facts." 
This article looks into the rumours of David Cameron having intercourse with a pig was a way for the public to humiliate him using hashtags #Piggate and #Hameron  on Twitter

The remain side’s worrying facts and worried experts were dismissed as “Project Fear” – and quickly neutralised by opposing “facts”: if 99 experts said the economy would crash and one disagreed, the BBC told us that each side had a different view of the situation.