User:Btorszag/sandbox

Sandbox Exercise

Formatting Basics

Paragraph: Set the style of your text. For example, make a header or plain paragraph text. You can also use it to offset block quotes.

A : Highlight your text, then click here to format it with bold, italics, etc. The “More” options allows you to underline (U), cross-out text (S), add code snippets ( { } ), change language keyboards (Aあ), and clear all formatting ( ⃠ ).

Links: Highlight text and push this button to make it a link. The Visual Editor will automatically suggest related Wikipedia articles for that word or phrase. This is a great way to connect your article to more Wikipedia content. You only have to link important words once, usually during the first time they appear. If you want to link to pages outside of Wikipedia (for an “external links” section, for example) click on the “External link” tab.

Cite: The citation tool in the Visual Editor helps format your citations. You can simply paste a DOI or URL, and the Visual Editor will try to sort out all of the fields you need. Be sure to review it, however, and apply missing fields manually (if you know them). You can also add books, journals, news, and websites manually. That opens up a quick guide for inputting your citations. Once you've added a source, you can click the “re-use” tab to cite it again.

• Bullets: To add bullet points or a numbered list, click here.

Insert: This tab lets you add media, images, or tables.

Test

Ω: This tab allows you to add special characters, such as those found in non-English words, scientific notation, and a handful of language extensions. ≈

Article Evaluation: Mass Communication

Evaluating Content

• Is everything in the article relevant to the article topic? Is there anything that distracted you?
  • The leading paragraph intro has several redundancies and could use some polish.
• Is any information out of date? Is anything missing that could be added?
  • Certainly could use additional citation. Certain commentary feels vague or assumed, but never personal.
• What else could be improved?
  • Section titled Types of mass communications could consider adding AT&T / Time Warner merger into "convergence" subsection as an example of a modern combination of two separate mass communication engines, FTV and Advertising / distribution

Evaluating Tone

• Is the article neutral? Are there any claims that appear heavily biased toward a particular position?
• Are there viewpoints that are overrepresented, or underrepresented?
  • As a combination of different articles, the mass comm page does a good job of equal representation to all of the ideas that fall into the category. One could argue that it spends too much time in the section titled "Field of Study" or that that section needs to be broken up. It does not lean one way or another, but it becomes dry as it drones on for some time without direction.

Evaluating Sources

• Check a few citations. Do the links work? Does the source support the claims in the article?
  • Links are available but several require a log in that most website visitors will not have. Others link directly to source PDF files. Asks the question: Is a link enough? Should the citation not be accessible as well? Making note to be sure that citation can link back to available source, not just an ebsco login page.
• Is each fact referenced with an appropriate, reliable reference? Where does the information come from? Are these neutral sources? If biased, is that bias noted?
  • Not every fact is referenced appropriately, though most sources are reliable and peer reviewed. Sources were journal articles but again, as mentioned above, the links do not all bring the user to the articles.

Checking The Talk Page

• What kinds of conversations, if any, are going on behind the scenes about how to represent this topic?
  • Until recently (December, 2018) not much had been said outside of the article being too vague. Appears that an undergraduate comm class had taken a month to update the section that I had mentioned earlier (Types of Mass Communication). Their section is well done.
• How is the article rated? Is it a part of any WikiProjects?
  • The article does not appear to be a featured article.
• How does the way Wikipedia discusses this topic differ from the way we've talked about it in class?
  • Mass Communication is broad and our class has not covered some of the material in the article. Our class has provided valuable historical context that can likely be added as a section in the article. The sections that do cover content that we have covered have done so from a neutral perspective while our class is asked to argue how some of these communications tools have become political. Both methods have been insightful and have offered good material.

Selected Article: Call-Out Culture

Article Evaluation

• Is the article's content relevant to the topic? Are some areas under- or over-developed?
  • For the most part. Seems sporadic. Not well organized. Article needs more content in general so that outline can be assembled more specifically. The outline headers are much too broad.
• Is it written neutrally?
  • Passionate topic. Users in the talk page have varying opinion on the origin of the term. Proposal to merge topic with cancel culture. Hot button conversation. Ironically, some contributors have been "called-out" themselves on the talk page...
• Does each claim have a citation? Are the citations reliable?
  • Additional citation is recommended, though the ones listed are reliable enough.
• What can you add?
  • See Article intentions

Article Intentions

• Propose additional headers and better organization to the article first. There is too much content and not enough segments to organize it
• Include additional, current examples of high profile "call-outs" that have occurred and references to the stories
• Recommend a section that educates readers on the different recorded consequences of the movement (who was called out, what was the response?)
• Highlight reactions to the movement from the public. (Is the movement perceived as exaggerated or necessary, who thinks so?)

Source Material

"Everyone is Canceled" article

Interview with Kanye West. Talks about cancel culture / call-out culture

Opinion article NYT Call out culture cruelty

Destructiveness of Call-Out culture

Biden response to recent "call-out"

Kyler Murray tweets

James Gunn reinstated (cast members call-out Disney after Gunn had been called-out himself)

Adam Carolla Safe Spaces Opinion Article

Citation Practice

Testing Testing.

Citation test cont.

Re-use citation.

Article Draft

Original

Call-out culture (also known as outrage culture) is the social phenomenon of publicly denouncing perceived racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, national interest, and other forms of prejudice or bigotry. Denunciation ("call-outs") can happen in person or online.

Kitty Stryker defines call-out culture as the "practice of using social media to hold individuals and groups accountable for their words and behavior". Asam Ahmad defines call-out culture as the "tendency among progressives, radicals, activists, and community organizers to publicly name instances or patterns of oppressive behaviour and language use by others".

Oscar Schwartz calls actress Alyssa Milano's Twitter post calling for "all the women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted" to use the hashtag "Me Too", created by Tarana Burke and tell their stories the largest example of calling-out; this campaign went viral, causing many women to share their stories, and leading to "firing and public humiliation" for a number of well-known men.

Extreme cases of call-out culture are referred to as safe-baiting. A proposed alternative to calling-out has been termed calling-in someone instead of calling them out by reaching out privately to discus their problematic behavior.

Edited

Call-out culture (also known as outrage culture) is a social phenomenon. It involves the public denouncing of perceived racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, classism, national interest, and other forms of prejudice or bigotry. Different forms of denunciation ("call-outs") happen in person and/or online.

Call-out culture carries multiple, formal definitions. It is a "tendency among progressives, radicals, activists, and community organizers to publicly name instances or patterns of oppressive behaviour and language use by others" and has also been defined as a "practice of using social media to hold individuals and groups accountable for their words and behavior".

The digital manifestation of Call-out culture is best represented by Alyssa Milano's viral Twitter post that helped to spark the "Me Too" movement. It called upon the victims of sexual assault to use the hashtag "Me Too" (created by Tarana Burke) to tell their stories. The campaign lead to the "firing and public humiliation" of a number of powerful, industry-embedded men.

Extreme cases are referred to as safe-baiting.

Alternatives to "calling-out" have been assigned the term "calling-in". Instead of calling-out individuals or groups in a public forum, accusers would reach out privately to discus the accused's problematic behavior.