Critically reflect on scholars’ and filmmakers’ engagement with critical issues related to social media use.

Question: Tarleton Gillespie writes that the managers of social media platforms have represented them as “open, impartial, connective, progressive, transformative.” This view, he argues, “has limited our ability to ask questions about their impact, even as their impact has grown and/or concern about them has expanded.” Critically reflect on scholars’ and filmmakers’ engagement with critical issues related to social media use. Topics to focus on include but are not limited to participation, moderation, the public sphere, corporate interest, and performance (you will not be able to cover all of them). Your essay should include analysis of either The Moderators or Watching the Detectives. The film to analyse is Watching the Detectives by Chris `Kennedy, 2017The key sources to engage with is ‘Is Twitter a Stage’ and ‘All Platforms Moderate’ and one more should be chosen.

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