Thursday, May 31, 2012

The Social Media Bias

On 9 May 2012 President Obama announced his support for the gay community’s right to wedlock. With imgfave,tumblr,facebook,twitter and other social hubs supporting the right for homosexuals to determine their own ends who could tell this decision could backfire? On a regular day around 10% of the images uploaded on imgfave,for instance,would portray gay marriage as a basic human right that must be accepted. Innovative,moving and witty at the same time:the ‘gay rights’ rhetoric surely made an average internet user appreciate the level of mass mobilization over an issue that concerns few. Yet once the decision was announced a severe backlash was witnessed.

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