Category: Student Work

Reading Response 3/29- Today’s Youth and the Media

I agree with the sentiment brought up in the first few paragraphs of It’s Complicated  by Dana Boyd about how it is important for society not to assume that the younger generation, known as the “digital natives”,  are completely literate in regards to media and technology, while the older generation, referred to as the “digital immigrants”, are …

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Media in a changing world

It is not revolutionary to say that media and technology are changing with the world, from television advancing to Google’s Alexa giving evidence on a murder case. It’s become obvious that media is growing and we are growing with it. Before my time technology was a luxury not everyone had a cell phone or a …

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Reading Response 3/22- Media in a Changing Global Culture

Although I do agree with the notion that the progression of media and technology has played a significant part in uniting various cultures, I don’t foresee the world becoming one homogeneous culture because of it. Media largely contributes in providing more open lines of communication to be able to exchange different thoughts, ideas and products …

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CLASS ACTIVITY: Digital and Reality Television March 8, 2018

Digital TV and Reality Television Class Activity:  The Winner: Plantanos and Collard Greens (see pics below)! Please view the above link to see the video of the Digital TV performance! What was your activity? Please be specific on what you asked the class to do and what you hoped it would accomplish. Our class activity …

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Reading Response 3/8- Digital and Reality Television

Television is swiftly moving into a direction of complete user autonomy. Up until recent years, television was classified as one platform with an array of channels, and there was little choice the viewers had other than what channel they chose to watch. The characteristics of television have transformed greatly, and there is no longer one …

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Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing can increase creativity and productivity  while decreasing research expenses. In one of the articles it explains that istockphoto s a website where photographers would trade stock photography which was way cheaper than buying the stock photos from someone. Crowdsourcing can offer different ideas and work from many different people like istockphoto its collections from …

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Reading Response 3/1- Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing and User Generated Content

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Reading Response 2/15 – Blogging

Reading Response 2 The first reading Why Bloggers Can’t Replace the Work of Professional Journalists by Tony Rogers, raises a good point about the relationship between bloggers and professional journalists; “expressing one’s opinion is very different from doing objective news reporting. And while opinions are fine, blogs that do little more than editorializing won’t satisfy …

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Blogging Vs. Traditional News Discussion 2

Blogging had become very popular during the 90’s, or early 2000’s. It gave writers a new media to get let out their frustrations,opinions, and feelings. However recent articles have been debating whether blogging will completely diminish newspapers and news websites. Bloggers only express their opinions  which sometimes have to do with topics by the news …

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