1.30 Reading Response

I believe the main point of the Platforms article was to explain that the types of social media platforms matter when trying to establish an online presence. More specifically the fact that these platforms have algorithms that promote or censor certain posts that could benefit the platform or are paid to do so. While the other article is explaining why all forms or writing is multimodal. Monomodal is something that Cheryl and Colin continued to mention and how it was not the inverse of multimodal, and when someone uses monomodal they are referring to how some writing structures restrict the mulitmodal type of writing. While the Platforms article explains the dangers of promoting and censoring posts and why it should pertain to what kind of platform you plan to use. “if you don’t like it hear, just leave,” this quote from the Platforms article further pushes the authors opinion, because depending on the platforms political standings anything controversial could be promoted or censored to the point of alienating certain people. No quote from the multimodal article stood out to me, but most of the article seemed repetitive and pointless. Almost to the point where I honestly didn’t understand the full message or point of the article outside of informing people about multimodal. While the Platforms Article was more interesting I think what they described is more surface level. For example, promoted content usually involves money in some way, while censored content could be a faulty algorithm. I believe a form of rules need be in placed for individual platforms, but not to restrictive as to monetize the internet in some way.