Blog Post #1 Celebrity Culture
In class on Friday we talked about celebrity culture. We also watched a video about John Ronson and his new book. In the video we watched he told quite a tragic story. It was about a woman named Justine Sacco. Justine was just a normal woman who had the average number of friends and not many twitter followers. Never the less, she tweeted anyway and loved the responses she got from all of her friends. One day she tweeted, "Going to Africa. Hope I don't get AID's. Just kidding, I'm white". She sent the tweet right before her flight took off and she wasn't expecting much from this tweet, maybe a favorite or two. When her flight touched down in Africa she turned her phone back on and couldn't believe what she saw. She got major feedback on this tweet. Thousands of people had replied to her tweet and posted about her, all negative things of course. She got death threats and many other forms of back lash. She even got her own hashtag saying #HasJustineLandedYet.