social media in philosophy

(1) Present the main elements of one concrete situation or event, which can be taken from your own experience, from history, from the news, from another class, from a movie, from a book, from a videogame, etc. (2) Present a detailed explanation of that situation/event using the concepts introduced in one of the readings we discussed this semester. You can choose any reading we discussed. (3) Present an objection to your explanation: how could somebody holding a different position interpret the situation/event you have presented and how could they answer to your own explanation of that situation/event? (4) Respond to that objection from the point of view you have chosen to defend. Example: I have recently read on the New York Times that a big cryptocurrency company went bankrupt and millions of dollars disappeared into nothing in a few days if not minutes. Suppose that I choose to focus on that situation, and I decide to explain it using the conceptual framework of Descartes' First Meditation. (1) So I start my paper by giving a brief but clear and comprehensive account of that situation as I read it on the New York Times. (2) Then I explain that scenario using Descartes' First Meditation, for example by raising the question of the metaphysical status of cryptocurrency: is it real? Is it something of whose existence we can doubt? Is it something that has a physical consistency? Following the lead of Descartes' First Meditation, I argue that cryptocurrency is not real in the sense that it is nothing outside our own minds. (3) I then present an objection to my Cartesian interpretation of cryptocurrency, for example supposing that someone might argue that cryptocurrency is both real and physical because (a) it depends on some physical machinery carrying out algorithms and (b) it has some very real consequences on economics and on the lives of people (especially those who invested on it). (4) I respond to that objection arguing that many things that exist only in our mind (for example, dreams, imaginary characters, moral ideals) have a real influence on our lives, but that this doesn't make them any more real, in the sense that they still have existence only in our minds. Please note that this is only an example (and probably not a very good one), and it is given to illustrate how you should proceed. You should choose a situation or event different from the one I have given in my example, and you should analyze it from a perspective different from the one I have indicated in the example.