Week 2 Presentations

So for this week we actually got through 4/5 presentations which is pretty good in my opinion.

I thought the two presentations on colorblindness was an interesting concept. My other class, Society and Technology; we have briefly gone over the idea of colorblind racism in which people chose to ignore race as something that was a fact about life to ensure that they weren’t being racist, but at the same time, this also meant that the social racial injustices that certain group members were inflicted with were also ignored in the process.

We talked about how people that are racially ignored in the Census that don’t fit into any race or ethnicity listed would reflect how the government itself doesn’t acknowledge their presences/existence, thus they would not qualify for health care benefits, financial aid, or funding for their groups if needed. There is inequality in among certain groups of people depending on what they consider themselves as. Feminists and the LGBT organizations face the same injustices as colorblind racism in which they are denied certain rights or benefits based on their identity. It’s an unfair world which we live in and watching the video on how the kids medical report came in to make a claim about his actions was grasping at straws to convict what appears to be an innocent teen facing racial injustice. I understand for the sake of exhausting all options and making a clear objective conclusion they provide all pieces of evidence, but in contrast it’s a contradiction to find an objective answer in my opinion, since the people we hold to a higher standard inadvertently create the standards are subjective to their own personal beliefs and personal experiences to make their own conclusions about an objective situation.

The easier way of saying all of that is that scientist have their own moral code and personal belief they fall under. They’re humans just like us that have lived their own life and have/have not been subjected to racism in their own way and beyond racism themselves, they choose to present their findings in a certain way understanding/or not understanding the ethical/racial ramifications it holds to their audience.

As for learning about vlogging, I know that its a very popular medium in which people within the digital media age use frequently to communicate to an audience on a larger scale. I think defining and understand what is vlogging, what is the criteria, how does it differ depending on the type of vlogging, what is the subject of vlogging and who is involved in vlogging are all points to hit on and clarify in the presentation or final paper/media project. I would like to know how it’s going to relate to the class readings (since I don’t remember all of the presentation) and make sure that those are clearly outlined in the project. It’s an interesting concept, but I guess also connect the benefits and negative outcomes from vlogging itself since the topic is very broad in its own way.