{"id":78,"date":"2014-07-09T18:56:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T22:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/?p=78"},"modified":"2014-07-10T12:18:22","modified_gmt":"2014-07-10T16:18:22","slug":"test-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/2014\/07\/09\/test-post\/","title":{"rendered":"How is Twitter Talking About #ChildLabor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For my hashtag topic, I chose to look up what is being said about\u00a0Child\u00a0Labor\u00a0on Twitter. I researched the hashtag #childlabor\u00a0to see what was being said. I found that while some Tweets are genuinely trying to raise awareness about actual\u00a0child\u00a0labor\u00a0and how to stop it, there are just as many Tweets where the phrase &#8220;child\u00a0labor&#8221; is used sarcastically or jokingly. For example, I found many Tweets using the hashtag to raise awareness about ending\u00a0child\u00a0labor, including this one:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/files\/2014\/07\/posi-child-labor.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-81 aligncenter\" alt=\"posi child labor\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/files\/2014\/07\/posi-child-labor-300x47.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"47\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/files\/2014\/07\/posi-child-labor-300x47.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/files\/2014\/07\/posi-child-labor.png 579w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>However, not all uses of the hashtag #childlabor are constructive. I also found many examples that use the phrase jokingly. For instance,\u00a0I \u00a0found a random person in Nebraska using the hashtag to talk about how she made her kids drive her to the store to buy drinks on July 4th.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/files\/2014\/07\/negi-child-labor.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-82 aligncenter\" alt=\"negi child labor\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/files\/2014\/07\/negi-child-labor-300x58.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"58\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/files\/2014\/07\/negi-child-labor-300x58.png 300w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/files\/2014\/07\/negi-child-labor.png 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I look at these contradictory uses of #ChildLabor together, I think these Tweets make me think that the joking uses of #childlabor\u00a0may be counteracting the serious uses and undermining the message. In other words, to use the #childlabor\u00a0hashtag as a joke makes light of the reality of\u00a0child\u00a0slavery around the world, and may make people think that child labor doesn&#8217;t exist anymore (when in reality, it remains a serious problem).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For my hashtag topic, I chose to look up what is being said about\u00a0Child\u00a0Labor\u00a0on Twitter. I researched the hashtag #childlabor\u00a0to see what was being said. I found that while some Tweets are genuinely trying to raise awareness about actual\u00a0child\u00a0labor\u00a0and how to stop it, there are just as many Tweets where the phrase &#8220;child\u00a0labor&#8221; is used [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67630,67629],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-twitterresearch","category-summer-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/exploringcollege\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}