User Generated Content - Is It Creative Thinking or Stereotype?

       User Generated Content (UGC) refers to media contents made by its users no matter who is professional about it or not. Therefore, they are more subjective and include personal stereotypes. For instance, when someone wants to buy a car, he/she will see other consumers’ reviews. He/she makes a decision depends on the reviews. However, they are non-experts, so that they might be in all probability that they don’t know law well, especially about the copyrights. They support their opinions with experts' report without considering copyright. They might think that it is okay because they use a little part of them to make their thoughts creatively. According to Larry, he says that the laws limit people’s creativity on the media. On the other hand, people use others’ digital contents without the permission in their own thoughts. I think that’s why we have to ask ourselves if it is proper. For example, I saw a content which is a remix of the Sochi 2014 Olympics report video and porn. In this case, I think UGC violates defamation with a corrupt image and personal prejudices/stereotypes. In addition to, Internet bullying, celebrities’ scandals, and rumors are also derived from UGC. 

        I think the main point is how people use UGC. On the good side, it’s enough to motivate people to think critically and logically. It offers a chance to see broad fields. In my opinion, one of the best solutions is that UGC reveals the source of citing. American college students learn how to cite authority in order to prevent to commit copyright and get credits.

Social Media & Relationship

Today, we use countless Social Network Services (SNS) such as Facebook and Twitter, and we can easily see thousands of 'Likes' or 'Favorites/Following' about the posts, even by people who 'I' don't know. In addition to, it makes users interact with people across the world. However, do SNS really play a role to keep an online relationship as much as an offline relationship? The online relationship has ambiguity of 'real' friends and just "SNS friend." As SNS goes commercialized,—companies let people share their promotions’ posts and events—it's difficult that users say their own thoughts/opinions. In other words, a personal 'space' is turned into spaces which are kept under guard from others. Social media are influencing relationship in that people who are behind a monitor have gradually no regards each other.

            On Facebook, 6-7 seconds funny videos are in fashion. Recently, I saw one of them, which deals with joking ethnicity between a White person and a Black man. I think not only this one fosters prejudice, but also other similar contents are still posted which make stereotypes. In order to prevent SNS from being out of control, we must keep in mind how to manage self-censorship.

Greeting & Intro.

Social Media and Psychoanalysis

Hello, folks! I’m exiting to start my first blog. I’d like to talk about the social media with psychological views, especially contents which have stereotypical communication. I knew what social network service (SNS) was since I used Facebook for making international friends in 2009. I realize that everyone often leaves their own opinions about a specific topic on their posts, timelines, and so on. As a result, it sometimes becomes a battle field, and it’s difficult to solve the conflicts. Because each individual is growing up in their culture, people have different perspectives and various prejudicial attitudes.

As a student who is majoring in communication design, I also want to explore how people keep their thoughts and influence the next generation. I’m interested to jump in these issues in order to see countless categories that are handled with conflicts such as: races, politics, gender, and social roles through the social media. Therefore, I’m going to see relationship between social media and those contents whether they include stereotypes, so that affects other people. I’ll keep posting to share my ideas, analysis, and critique. As long as most people contact the social media over the world, I think it’s important to check our mental health and use the social media in the sound ways.