Module 4 Podcast

The podcast discusses the recent incident involving the Titan submarine that was exploring the Titanic wreckage. The submarine suffered a catastrophic implosion, leading to a four-day search for the submarine and its crew. The podcast also highlights the issue of inappropriate jokes being made about the incident on social media. The author of an article, Peter Suchu, criticizes social media platforms for not discouraging such jokes, suggesting their lack of action indirectly supports such content. The podcast concludes by mentioning the importance of civil conversations online, even when discussing differing opinions. Hi, everyone. For my podcast, I am going to be talking about that very popular story that has been happening all this week, which is about the Titan submarine. So let's do a little briefing of that. The Titan submarine set out early Sunday morning, June 19. They were headed to explore the Titanic wreckage in the northern regions of the Atlantic Ocean. And almost two hours after the descent, communication with the submarine was lost, and then that began a four-day search for the sub and the five members that were aborted. Earlier today, that wreckage was found. It looks like the submarine suffered a catastrophic implosion. There's still a lot of investigation going on. So the question is, how does this pertain to social media? Well, like any other event, there comes out of it the content that is posted to social media, and some of it's informational. But a lot of times, the content is just a joke and makes fun of the situation, right? Well, one writer wrote how he feels about the jokes, and he feels that they are ill-timed and in poor taste, especially since these jokes are at the expense of five people's lives. You can find this article on Forbes. I believe the author's name, hopefully I pronounced this correctly, his name is Peter Suchu. And Peter Suchu doesn't believe social media platforms are doing anything to discourage these types of jokes. He believes instead that the lack of action to stop it is basically an indirect statement of their encouragement for this type of content. And he believes it's because this type of content is what keeps users engaged, and if it's keeping users engaged, then that's good for their business, even if it's not good for society. In my opinion, overall, the article, I liked it, mainly because he is saying what most people are not, and that is not always easy to speak out against. I don't agree with every opinion. However, he did mention how he believes we've lost the ability to have civil conversations online, especially when it's a conversation where we're talking about how our opinions may be on the polar end of someone else's opinion. And that was probably my favorite part about the article. But that concludes my podcast. Thanks for listening. Bye.