Guest Speaker Gates

WOW! This weeks first speaker was amazing, especially because he is going to be one of my professors next semester! I feel so lucky to have gotten to see his teaching style, comfortable conversation, before starting the class. While Dr. Gates was with us he talked a lot about the history of social media and the legality behind it. This included several court cases and information for us about privacy in this newer digital age. Something new that I learned about was Gab. This is the new Reddit, full of very right wing, dangerous views. To close the discussion he touched on sexting and the age of consent which is considerably more tricky than I thought it would be. Overall this guest speaker coming to see us prepared me for next semester and opened my eyes to the legality and issues behind social media that have happened and are yet to come.