Evaluation of Social Media Sources

In the following blog post I evaluate some social media sources talking about the lack of black recognition at the 2015 Academy Awards.

After going on storify and searching up on the controversy of the 2015 Academy Awards, I found there was a hashtag thread of #oscarssowhite on twitter, so I looked into it and found a user @thetrudz (trudy) who tweeted the following

@thetrudz tweet. Screenshot taken by Dylan Cotter Public Domain Usage

By BW she means black women. Trudy is a writer at gradientliar.com, this is a self titled womanist blog about black women in modern day society. She is also a film critic, she boasts 39,000 followers on twitter and has been active for over two years. She seems to be more than a credible source.

I also found a tweet by @EdgeofSports

@edgeofsports tweet. Screenshot taken by Dylan Cotter Public Domain Usage

Dave Zirn is a sports editor of @thenation and a radio host for Sirius XM. He is known for having a controversial timeline but also boasts 50,000 twitter followers and has been active both on twitter and on the radio for over 5 years, making his comments about the oscars relevant cause it went out to a wide audience. His tweet is dripping with sarcasm and mockery, Exodus was a movie directed by Riddley Scott with Joel Egerton and Christian Bale that was criticized because it was the story of the leaders of Egypt but had an all white cast. He isn't a movie critic or a journalist but his celebrity status and the fact that he knows that he is in the public eye and felt the need to say this anyway gives it validity.