While reading Clay Shirkey's Here Comes Everybody, in Ivanna and Evan's theft story, I noticed a few interesting things. For one thing, Evan's persistent need to get the phone thief, Sasha, to get in trouble was pretty interesting. I say that because it wasn't his phone and he didn't even have to go through all the trouble of creating a blog and pressuring the NYPD. Also it's just a phone in the end and she got a new one. In my opinion this showed that because of Sasha's threats and refusal to return the phone to Ivanna, this made Evan upset and feeling the need to bring justice to his friend. However in the end I was confused when they didn't press charges. Wasn't taking her to jail a way to bring justice? Well, according to Shirky, his goal was to "publicly call out Sasha" (6). So to me that means that he really only wanted to make her feel bad and have others see the wrongs she did. Do you guys agree or disagree that Evan did all of this in order to right a wrong in his mind to leave him at ease?
I believe what Evan did to recover the stolen sidekick was the right thing as Ivanna spent her time working at her job to earn herself the phone. Which would later be stolen by a teenage girl that had no manners to an adult who politely asked for her phone back as she left it in the back of a taxi by mistake.
ReplyDeleteI also thought it was a bit too much of a show just to get a phone back, but I think maybe at one point Evan thought to himself that he's too far in the game that if he backed out it would seem cowardly, or maybe even if he did back out, the people would still continue and fight because people are stubborn when they're part of a large group.
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