6/6 Boyd

Technology can be harmful and helpful; it all depends on who is using it. A young person can use it as a distraction like being on Instagram but there are other young people who use it in order to reach out to others for a positive cause. Dominguez’s and Boyd’s speak about the forms of protest through electronics. The mainly focus on memes, which gives any person a laugh. They compare technology to a virus because it spreads so quickly. This can be good in order to give information to those who need it but it can also be harmful because people don’t weigh articles to look if there is just a bias, they would just read the first article or post they see and believe it. But this article isn’t focusing so much on articles but memes. Everywhere we log in to, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter we see memes. These are for laughter but can be switched around to bring awareness. Some of my favorite memes are the ones that say something about inequity and it makes you giggle, but then you say “oh sh*t, that is true” or memes that really make you wonder. I remember a meme that said “If the opposite of ‘pro’ is ‘con’ then what is the opposite of ‘progress’?” Memes are a way to bring laughter but it can also make people think critically certain issues.



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