What We Covered
Contents
21.1. What We Covered#
We covered a lot of topics in this book, and we hope you learned something and found it valuable!
21.1.2. Ethics#
We covered a number of ethics frameworks and you got practice applying them in different situations:
Confucianism
Taoism
Virtue Ethics
Aztec Virtue Ethics
Natural Rights
Consequentialism
Deontology
Ethics of Care
Ubuntu
American Indigenous Ethics
Divine Command Theory
Egoism
Existentialism
Nihilism
We hope that by the end of this book, you have a familiarity with applying different ethics frameworks, and considering the ethical tradeoffs of uses of social media and the design of social media systems. Again, our goal has been not necessarily to come to the “right” answer, but to ask good questions and better understand the tradeoffs, unexpected side-effects, etc.
21.1.3. Automation#
We also covered a number of topics in automation, such as:
History of Programming
Python Programming Language
JupyterHub and JupyterNotebooks
Variables
Data types (e.g., numbers, strings)
Reddit Praw library (posting, searching, etc.)
Other code libraries (e.g., time)
For Loops
Conditionals (if/else)
Lists
Dictionaries
Functions (calling, and writing our own)
Sentiment Analysis
Recursion (for printing tweets and replies)
We hope that by the end of this course, you have a familiarity of what programming is and some of what you can do with it. We particularly hope you have a familiarity with basic Python programming concepts, and an ability to interact with Reddit using computer programs.
21.1.1. Social Media#
We covered a number of topics in relation to social media:
Bots
Data
History of Social Media
Authenticity
Trolling
Data Mining
Privacy and Security
Accessibility
Recommendation Algorithms
Virality
Mental Health
Content Moderation
Content Moderators
Crowdsourcing
Harassment
Public Shaming
Capitalism
Colonialism
We hope that by the end of this book you know a lot of social media terminology (e.g., context collapse, parasocial relationships, the network effect, etc.), that you have a good overview of how social media works and is used, and what design decisions are made in how social media works, and the consequences of those decisions.
We also hope you are able to recognize how trends on internet-based social media tie to the whole of human history of being social and can apply lessons from that history to our current situations.