Articles about Yearbook

YEARBOOK FACES

Article:

http://www.technologyreview.com/view/543871/data-mining-reveals-how-smiling-evolved-during-a-century-of-yearbook-phot

Answer the following questions in a google doc

1. Have your ever had a camera held up in front of your face and just smiled as a reaction? Why do you think that is? Why do you think you feel need to smile in a photo?
2. Explain in detail why people used to keep their faces neutral. There are at least 2 reasons.
3. What are some biases that occured in the data set? Explain what and why they occured.

YEARBOOK REPRINTS

yearbook Reprints

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/a-chicago-high-school-is-spending-53-000-to-reprint-its-yearbooks-after-several-students-flashed-white-supremacy-symbols-in-their-photos/ar-AABGZJn

Answer the following questions in a google form:

1. Why do we NEVER allow hand signs in our yearbook photos? Does this make sense to you?
2. This hand symbol had a meaning, some don't, explain your personal opinion on this, and your opinion on it as a yearbook staff member. We would have to go in and edits, blur out, crop, change every photo with a hand sign.
3. Do you think the students in questions should be paying for the re-prints? Why? The article states they will be dealing with consequences for the rest of their lives, do you think that is too much? enough?

YEARBOOK STUDENT RIGHTS

Yearbook Student rights:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/24/us/maga-hat-blurred-out-yearbook-trnd/index.html

Answer the following questions on a google form:

1. Is there ever a time when it is ok to blur out something on someone's shirt? When or why?
2. HOw would you handle representing the whole school, even if you disagreed with it? Give an example.