This week on Thursday we did not have class but we did have an article on aggregation and about the failed attempt of the new york police to reach out to the community and strengthen their relationship with the people.
The readings along with the video from Class show off the situation with this hashtag, and it was rather interesting how it ended up this way. You start with a good idea, a way for the NYPD to branch out to the people that they serve in order to be closer to their community. Then you open a platform for people to bring about the issues with the NYPD as well as corruption and brings a lot of this to the surface. Many of the things were police abuse, or what looked like police abuse (stated that some actions were perfectly legal but they just look "brutal") but its still worrisome. So weaker form of collaboration was used since people were using the hashtag to communicate and connect, aggregation because people brought sources that were not intended to be used for this hashtag. Its just interesting to see how something with such good intention gets hijacked so easily.
As a last note this lead to larger groups using this hashtag to spread their activism, a tweeter did use this opportunity to talk about the Ferguson issue as well as other racial issues, not just the nypd. Interesting to see how something with this sort of core can branch out and spread so far to be used for something completely unintended.
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