Deck 9: Social Media Toolbox

Question 1

Identify the writer and social media celebrity who was banned from Twitter after attacking comedian Leslie Jones?

A) Milo Yiannopoulos
B) Nero d'Avola
C) Adam Baldwin
D) Stephen Bannon

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Who performed "The Revolution Will Not Be Televised"?

A) Bob Dylan
B) Billie Holiday
C) The Clash
D) Gil Scott-Heron

Answer 2

D

Question 3

What is Open TV?

A) A media criticism project that makes YouTube videos
B) A social movement to minimize the number of hours kids spend watching television
C) A television production project that features work by and about queer, trans and cis-women, and arts of color
D) An app that allows users to watch episodes of older television shows

Answer 3

C

Question 4

Which scholar famously declared that "the master's tools will never dismantle the master's house"?

A) Gil Scott-Heron
B) Aymar Jean Christian
C) Audre Lorde
D) bell hooks

Question 5

Patricia Hill Collins's conception of stereotypes and other images that meant to remind individuals of social hierarchies, including racial hierarchies, gender hierarchies, and class hierarchies.

A) Representations
B) Controlling images
C) Hegemonies
D) Cultural practices

Question 6

In Social Media Freaks, Dustin Kidd concludes that social media as it is currently organized is unlikely to achieve significant social change. What leads him to make that conclusion? What does he argue we should do to make social media more effective?