Media Law and Literacy 2024

 07/07/202 The Strong AntiWar Views You Never See     In the world of the internet it's easy to get all the information you need right at your fingertips. News, entertainment and the happenings of your friends and family are a click away. However the internet is vast and not everything can be on the front page. Stronger views typically don't get as much traction as many stray on the path of least resistance and accept coomonplace views much easier. In the case of the conflict occuring in Isreal and Palastine this holds more truth now than ever with the AntiWar movement.      However this didn't always hold true. In the 1960s and 70s the Antiwar movement was extremely prevalent in the public conscious. However nowadays the only sites the really hold these strong views are on quite obsure sites. Places like  Antiwar.com  and  The American Conservative  are the places to go for these strong views and are mostly out of the public eye.  ...

 07/07/2024 In the Age of AI      The PBS documentary titled In the Age of AI did a great job providing a general overview of the problems facing the world related to AI and in particular how it affects privacy. The documentary first discusses the very pressing concern of AI integration in jobs. The doc goes into detail stating that there are already factories of robots doing things like checkout or working in grocery stores. This is something that I feel as though is lost on the general public. These integrations aren't a future thing and are already happening. This is extra concerning to the fact that economically people aren't doing to hot recently. The phrase the rich get richer and the poorer get poorer is all to accurate. If AI take the jobs like the a supermarket employee and working in fast food industry then those people will be out of a job and hard pressed to find a new one. The reason these changes would be happening is simple: less workers gives more mo...

 07/03/2024 AI: It' Innovation and Controversy        One of the biggest innovations of our time is AI. Type in a prompt or question and AI can work with it and create a description or answer to whatever you ask It can also be used to create so called art which will not be discuused here. In this case I will mainly be discussing AI use in acadamia as that's one of it's most well known uses.          The reason why it caught is because frankly it's easy. Students natrually want to find loopholes. Cheating of other students or online was the typical way this was a acheived. However this method is quite easy to figure out and if a new method were to come along then those people who typically cheat would be the early adopters more than likely. AI is basically an easier (and for a while more foolproof) way of cheating. Since as long as you have a computer you enter a question and a second later get an answer. No other source like a extra shee...

 07/02/2024  Gatekeeping: Does it Have Merit     In our modern era the term gatekeeping gets thrown around quite alot. Many however don't know what it actually is and thus are quick to judge the word. A gatekeeper is someone who controlls access to something. While this might seem quite harsh it's quite common throughtout or society. Specific examples will appear later however it's first important to understand the implications of such a term.        One of the concerns that gatekeeping brings is people being excluded and that people will become further and further apart. There are those who are concerned about minority groups being gatekept from things like popular cultural IPs (more on this later). Others say gatekeeping is a way for people to hold information to themsleves while not sharing it with others. More on the potential flaws of gatekeeping can be found here:  https://www.businessinsider.com/gatekeeper-online-trend-insult-explained...

 06/24/2024 Privacy Online and Off      In the age of digital technology many take what they do online for granted. Whether it be a quick messsage, post or even ones own likeness, everything online is permenant and could have massive implication for your future carrer path or how others perceive you in society. As a member of such and age it's up to us to understand how our privacy is being exploited, how it affects our day to day lives and what we can do to prevent it from occuring more and more.       You may that these issues are far less important to you as your accounts are protected and only friends can access. However that couldn't be further from the truth. What about when you're replying to a simple comment on a public forum or even posting a photo for whatever purpose? Those things and everything else you do can be seen. The issue affects college students more than ever as what you put out online depicts to others what kind of person you...

 06/22/2024 The Invention of the Telephone       In our world one thing that almost everyone has is a cellphone. It's such a key part of our everyday lives that we often take it for granted. When life gets boring you whip it out and gawk at it for a few seconds before putting it away. It's something everybody does. However none of this would be possible without the famous invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell (well that's not entirely true but more on that later).        Alexander Graham Bell was born in March 3rd 1847 in Edinburgh, Scotland. Alexander in his younger years was quite the curious child and became interested in inventing things around a early age. Bell was homeschooled in his early years and when he was 16 he started to study the mechanics of speech which would of course be useful in his later invention. Eventually Bell moved to the U.S and began teaching (despite not having a degree) at Boston University School of...