“Dumb Blonde!” Have you ever heard that phrase before? I’m sure you have. For this post, I’m going to discuss the stereotypes of females with blonde hair. I chose to write about this stereotype because I can speak from a personal perspective since I am a blonde haired, blue eyed female. First, let’s define what …
For this blog post, I am going to explore the origins and rise of a specific controversy, to help better understand and identify potential propaganda: Vaccines and Autism. To date, over 20 years since it first began, conspiracy theories still exist surrounding autism and vaccinations. In this post, I will explore how this controversy originated, …
If you were born before 1990, you may be able to remember how quickly un-checked rumors spread prior to the development of social media. My earliest memories of this are probably from middle school. I remember whispers in the hallway and old-school telephone calls from friends. “Hey, did you hear about…”. We weren’t really taught …
Welcome to my 24-hour media diet journal for Saturday, September 10, 2022! I posted a media diet a couple of weeks ago detailing my media usage but this post will have a different focus. This post will also be a media diet but will focus on how I use media and what kind of information …
As consumers, we rely on powerful Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to deliver the web to us via an open highway. Currently, these ISPs have the ability to provide faster services to content they prefer or to companies that pay them more money. The ISPs argue they are able to do this through the concept that …
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Welcome to my 24-hour media diet journal for August 22, 2022! I chose a workday to monitor my media habits during because I work 5 out of 7 days during the week, so this is typical of how most of my days are spent. 7:30am: When my alarm goes off I wake up and check emails, …