My Relationship With Technology Today According to an article on Vox.com the average adult spends 3 hours and 30 minutes a day using mobile internet - and honestly, it shocked me but probably not for the reason you think. I was shocked because I feel like I am on my phone so much more than 3 and a half hours a day, in fact, I know I am. One thing Apple has implemented is that you can track your screen time to see how often you are on your phone for a day or a week. For example, my daily average last week was 5 hours, and 46 minutes a day I was on my phone. I have a very interesting relationship with technology, one that I allow to take up too much time at some points. Very often it feels as though my world revolves around my laptop my school work is all online, my job revolves around writing articles online, my clubs and sorority meetings all happen via zoom - at points, my day feels like it is rules by moving one location to another just to log onto my laptop and get online. My ph
Alternative Media Alternative Media is defined as media sources that differ from established or dominant types of media in terms of their content, production, or distribution. As long as the media has been around, so has alternative media. There has always been a more socially accepted view of things, and throughout history, there has always been a way people tried to combat the more socially accepted sources. Alternative media acts as a foil to the mainstream media by providing the individual person with a chance to not only read about less reported topics but to do the reporting themselves. One clear-cut example of this is Johann Gutenberg’s printing press in 1436. This was considered alternative media because before the invention of the printing press, only the clergy had access to the bible, but the printing press made this information and the bible itself readily available to the common person. Christian Fuchs wrote an article in the European Journal of Social Theory that state