{"id":19654,"date":"2022-07-26T17:01:26","date_gmt":"2022-07-26T21:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/?p=19654"},"modified":"2022-07-26T17:01:26","modified_gmt":"2022-07-26T21:01:26","slug":"is-social-media-a-net-positive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/07\/26\/is-social-media-a-net-positive\/","title":{"rendered":"Is social media a net-positive?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/aw072522-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/aw072522-1.jpg\" alt=\"Is social media a net-positive?\" class=\"wp-image-19647\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/aw072522-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/aw072522-1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/aw072522-1-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Is social media a net-positive?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>What a great question. I don&#8217;t have an answer, actually. For some, yes &#8211; definitely net positive. For others, not at all. For broader societal issues? No? Yes? For these big questions, I like to turn to what others have written on. Browse HM742&#8217;s and HQ799.2&#8217;s. Look up danah boyd &#8211; their work is very helpful in thinking these things through I think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What a great question. I don&#8217;t have an answer, actually. For some, yes &#8211; definitely net positive. For others, not at all. For broader societal issues? No? Yes? For these big questions, I like to turn to what others have written on. Browse HM742&#8217;s and HQ799.2&#8217;s. Look up danah boyd &#8211; their work is very &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/2022\/07\/26\/is-social-media-a-net-positive\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is social media a net-positive?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19654"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19655,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19654\/revisions\/19655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.bc.edu\/answerwall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}