This semester, our class has been reading and discussing So You've Been Publicly Shamed and looking at different scenarios where public shaming has been prevalent. Public shaming is something that is definitely more common now that it has been in the past because of how easy it is to hide behind a screen and tweet along with the masses. One that I found to be interesting was a scandal in 2003 with a Chicago Cubs fan. Steve Bartman went to a Cubs game like any other fan and during the game a ball was hit into the crowd. When he went up to catch it, he ended up deflecting it back on to the field turning it into a foul ball. The Cubs ended up losing the game and Cubs fans believed it was because of Steve Bartman, so they began playing the video over and over again on television news channels. Within 24 hours people had released all of personal information and were sending him threats and leaving him frightening phone calls. He apologized, but had to go into hiding because of the death threats he was receiving over a baseball game. I think that for this the news channels were trying to make drama out of something that shouldn't have been news worthy, but it was because the Cubs lost that game that they had a story. For them the audience was sports fans, Cubs fans, and the Cubs themselves. I think that this while situation could have been fixed had the news stories not had the video of him deflecting the ball playing over and over again on news channels and I also think that unless Steve Bartman knew that he was for sure going to be able to catch the ball, that he probably shouldn't have attempted to catch it. I think that this situation was restored to the best of its abilities when the Cubs invited him to the stadium and other games as a VIP member, but at the end of the day they still blasted him to the media. I think that this is different from some of the stories in the book because most of those stories were one's where the subject was the one that also caused the harm and put thought into the issue. The Sacco story, for example, could have been avoided had she just not tweeted about her trip to Africa. I think that whole situation could have been avoided if she had just thought about what she was tweeting before she tweeted it. This is different from the Bartman story because the shaming was caused by her, she brought some of the shaming on herself whereas Bartman just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. I think that the Bartman issue was a continuous topic for the Cubs until 2016 when they gave him a World Series ring once they finally won one.
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For the Shakespeare website mock-up and logo I wanted to create something that was simple and visually pleasing to whatever audience happened to stumble upon the page. For the logo I wanted to place an emphasis on the play that we are covering in the archive which is why "Hamlet" is in bold, red letters across the top of the sword. I used a sword in the logo because I felt like the fight scene in the play was an important scene and I wanted to show the importance of that. For proximity I wanted the word across the top to line up with the blade of the sword because I thought that would create the most visually pleasing outcome. I also wanted the logo to be in the top center of the website because I wanted it to stand out while not being the main focus of the page. I chose the color red for the logo and the website bar because I wanted to emphasize the blood shed in the play and I also feel like red is generally associated with death. I want the summary and main points of each page to be lined up with logo in the center of the page because I feel like that is where the eye is most drawn to and I thought it would make the website easier to read/understand. As for the images along the top, I wanted each page to have images that related to the content each page, however, for the home page I would like to have a slideshow/interactive piece to portray the pieces of the play. This could have just general images of the play or could give "sneak peeks" as to what each topic covered is going to be about. Lastly, for the buttons along the top I wanted them to be bold yet simple, so I chose a thin font that was simple and made it white so that it would stand out against the red background.
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