Weekly Blog 7
Becky’s post #7

Hi Becky,

I like it that you mentioned that the inclusiveness of social media is effected by the exclusion chosen or restriction done by countries. I also think your examples of TikTok and KaoKao Talk are interesting cases used to discuss under this topic of inclusion. I agree that the restrictions and using nationalities as the distinctions to select the users who could sign up can be a great influence on these types of social media being inclusive or not. However, for those social media apps and platforms that are not restricted by certain countries or regions, we should ask why they tend to be used only by certain groups of people rather than being more diverse. I think this could lead to questions such as whether there are internal features of a social media platform that excludes certain groups of people, or the way certain apps work would prevent some people from using them.