{"id":6007,"date":"2021-03-26T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6007"},"modified":"2021-03-26T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-26T17:00:00","slug":"repost-media-informs-millions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/?p=6007","title":{"rendered":"Repost Media Informs Millions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Written by Chamberlain\u00a0Zulauf<\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Asian American hate was undeniably real on March 16th with the targeted massacre of 8 people (mostly of Asian American descent) at two locations 30 miles apart.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Above is information that I learned from Instagram stories before anywhere else. Of course, I knew racism in America is nothing new, but I wasn\u2019t fully aware of the actual scale of Asian Xenophobia until I started to see reposts on Instagram. Where else would I have found out? Newspapers? I don\u2019t know a single person my age that watches the news on TV. Instagram stories are a new way for America\u2019s youth to become informed citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some people will say \u201cwHaT Is POsTiNg oN SocIAl mEdiA Do oTheR tHan STroKe yOur EGo\u201d. I think these people are missing the point entirely. I figure that Instagram posts must be vital to the awareness of millions of teens and young adults.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">An argument could be made that reposting is a new form of journalism where the product is specifically made with mass communication and users in mind. The users who see these posts also play a more advanced role as the spread of the information depends on their reposting. This variation of the one-way author to reader relationship makes Instagram stories a staple of youth advocacy and shows the beginning of a collaborative American population which fights against injustice.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Written by Chamberlain\u00a0Zulauf Asian American hate was undeniably real on March 16th with the targeted massacre of 8 people (mostly of Asian American descent) at two locations 30 miles apart. Above is information that I learned from Instagram stories before anywhere else. Of course, I knew racism in America is nothing new, but I wasn\u2019t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-6007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-summer2019"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brackety-ack.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}