I am teaching four different academic modules this semester and think we need to talk about Bluesky as a watering hole. On my University campus, 15 of the first 150 people to use Twitter in Ireland came from classrooms where we discussed that social network.
Much has changed since 2007 when we had “Ireland” as one of our Twitter handles on campus. Today, I’m using Donal MacNamee’s piece in Connected magazine as a springboard for several discussions.
- Why have trust and safety monitors?
- What has Elon Musk done to spark an x-odus from Twitter?
- What protections do employees in Ireland have concerning unfair dismissal?
- What does it feel like getting a text from one of the richest men in the world?
- What is a major difference between the management styles of Elon Musk and Jack Dorsey?
- How would you balance content moderation with fact-checking?
- Why do people have to review child porn, snuff videos, and BDSM tutorials?
- Who should be liable for the presence of illegal content on personal devices connected to public internet services?
