Emma's Media Law And Literacy Blog

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 ...

 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 The...

 Privacy In The Digital Age I didn't realize how naive I was about the internet until I took this class. Yes, I knew the basics - don't email your life savings to any alleged foreign princes and never under any circumstances give out any private details. All my social media accounts are private and I make sure to never add someone I didn't know. My digital footprint has always been something I was uber cautious about because I have had ingrained into my head since I was young that whatever you put out into the interwebs stays there forever.   I never realized how much I was giving up unintentionally.  After the conversations we had in class about search engines like google, which up until that day in class I had never even batted an eye overusing, tracking all your searches I truly began to ponder the amount of security and privacy I had online. The conversation about Facebook, and how even after you close down the tab with Facebook open the site still tracks you and...

 Innovation Of Diffusion - AirPods What exactly are AirPods? AirPods are Apple's wireless earbuds that have skyrocketed in popularity since their release in 2016. These earbuds became the most popular accessory sold by Apple two years after their release, and since the initial release of the AirPods Apple has come out with a  second-generation Airpods  and  Airpod Pros .  I believe the reason Airpods caught on quickly was because of how innovative and unique it was. Unlike other Bluetooth headphones at the time, Apple's AirPods were sleek and modern and came with many advancements Apple users weren't used to.  AirPods Through the Lens of Innovation Diffusion Innovators : Apple and its investors were the innovators of the AirPods. They were the ones who thought up, financed, produced, and pioneered the use and creation of the device. Early Adopters:  Airpods were announced at an Apple Special Event alongside the iPhone 7 and the Apple watch series 2 on ...

 Google - What I Learned I must confess since I got my laptop back in my junior year of high school, in all honesty, most likely before that too when tasked with researching something for schoolwork, google has been my primary tool for searching the internet. That being said, I had never taken the time before my classmate Missy Marrazzo's presentation to learn more about the company and search engine as a whole. Missy talked in her presentation about how the inventors of Google met, which was in 1995 when Sergey Brin was tasked with showing Larry Pagey around Standford university, and how Google wasn't even the first site the two launched, their original site was one called "backrub". Google Beta was launched in 1998 and in 1999 they removed the beta. It only went up from there as in 2000 new languages were added, in 2004 Gmail (google's email component) was added, in 2008 the "Google Chrome" internet browser was launched, and the first google phone was ...

 The History Of The Type Writer "There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed" - Ernest Hemmingway A Brief Timeline   The typewriter has evolved greatly since its humble beginnings, and while now in modern times is seen more as "antique" or "dated" used to be the peak of technology. The first known patent for the typer writer can be traced back to 1714 with Henry Mills' "Machine for Transcribing Letters". There is very little known about this machine, mostly because it never reached large-scale production, so because of these many attributes Christopher Latham Sholes' typewriter as the "first typewriter". Sholes developed his first typewriter in 1867, which was only able to type in capital letters, and a few years and tweaks later the first commercial typewriter would be manufactured by the Remington company and would have the capability to type in upper and lowercase. The addition of more keys h...

Eight Values of Free Expression -  Market Place of Ideas and Promote Tolerance Out of the eight values of free expression, two values, in particular, struck a chord with me. These two values were the Market Place of Idea's and Promote Tolerance. Not only do I think these two values are the most important in today's society, but I think they are the most common and utilized in the modern world.  Enormous amounts of people of all ages, genders, and races took to the streets to protest police brutality and demand justice in the summer of 2020. Photo retrieved from theindipendant.com Marketplace of Ideas The market place of ideas, also known as the discovery of truth, was first thought up and established by John Milton. In his work  Areopagitica,  published in 1644, Milton shared his philosophy “Let [truth] and falsehood grapple; who ever knew Truth put to the worse, in a free and open encounter?” To put this more simply, Milton was suggesting that when "truth and falseh...