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How Do Social Media Affect Young People?
Frances Haugen was a Facebook product manager whose job was to protect against election interference on the social media site. She worked at the company for nearly two years, departing in May of 2021. During her time at the social … Continue reading
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Tagged ch02effects, media effects, social media, social media and mental health
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
Are Facebook and Instagram addictive? And if so, what does that mean? We know that nicotine, meth, heroin, alcohol and the like are addictive. Biochemists can lay out the specific mechanisms that make these substances difficult to quit using. But … Continue reading
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Tagged Because I can, ch07Movies, ch10 social media, Halloween, horror movies, Questions worth asking, social media, taylor swift
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Why do news update e-mails insist on putting sports spoilers in the subject line?
Why do news update e-mails insist on putting sports spoilers in the subject line? Ok, I get it. It’s almost impossible to avoid results of a high-profile Olympic event that takes place early in the morning but gets aired on … Continue reading
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Tagged Bejing Olympics, e-mail, Olympics, social media, spoilers
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Looking Back at the January 6th Insurrection – History Has Its Eyes On You
One year ago today an angry mob assaulted the United Staters Capitol Building in an attempt to stop the counting of electoral votes and overturn the results of a free an fair presidential election. Here are links to a series … Continue reading
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Tagged 2021 insurrection, Andy Kim, news, social media
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What’s The Fuss About Facebook, Inc.? Part I – The WSJ
Editor’s Note: Facebook and its various properties (Instagram, WhatsApp) have been in the news a lot lately, and not in a good way. Congress has been holding social media hearings where Facebook is the #1 bad guy, the Washington Post has had … Continue reading
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Tagged Facebook, instagram, social media, WSJ
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Questions Worth Asking (Maybe)
Why did it take so long for Quaker Oats to abandon Aunt Jemima as a pancake brand? Aunt Jemima has a new name: the Pearl Milling Company. Quaker Oats announced it would drop the name Aunt Jemima last summer after … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, BLM, books, branding, Fox News, Hamilton, libraries, movies, Oscars, racism, social media
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Bernie and his Mittens
With all of the awful news over the last few weeks, from the more than 400,000 people dead from the pandemic, to people out of work, to the insurrection attack on the U.S. Capitol, we’ve really needed something wonderful as … Continue reading
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Tagged Bernie mittens, distracted boyfriend, memes, social media
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Stories of hope from the insurrection, Part 6
The violent insurrection in Washington, D.C. Wednesday was both utterly predictable and unimaginable. My feelings about those events go well beyond the scope of this blog, so instead of laying out my feelings, I’m going to share a variety of … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 14, Chapter 6, Chapter 9
Tagged 2021 insurrection, Arnold Schwarzenegger, C-SPAN, news, newspapers, social media
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What does the 1st Amendment mean? Stories from the the insurrection, Part 3
The violent insurrection in Washington, D.C. Wednesday was both utterly predictable and unimaginable. My feelings about those events go well beyond the scope of this blog, so instead of laying out my feelings, I’m going to share a variety of … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 10, Chapter 13, Chapter 5, Chapter 6
Tagged 2021 insurrection, books, first amendment, President Trump, social media, twitter
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Fighting Against “Fake News” with the Truth Sandwich
This week my media literacy class is working on the concept of fake news. I’m having them take a look at the history of how both the concept and term have been used over the last several centuries. Aside from … Continue reading
Posted in Chapter 15, Chapter 6
Tagged fake news, Jay Rosen, media ethics, social media, truth sandwich
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