Media Law and Lit

In class this week, we are researching and presenting on different theories and ideas as it applies to people's perspectives.  I am researching confirmation bias, and I think there is no better place to research this than in America right now.  First, confirmation bias is the idea that people will look for facts that support their own biases when researching a topic.  Take gun control for example.  Two different people may look at the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School form two years ago, but come up with two totally different conclusions based on the biases they had going into their research.  I think an example like this, which was very prevalent in the weeks after the shooting, is the perfect example of confirmation bias, and America's current thought process as a whole.  It seems like everyone is playing into their confirmation bias in today's culture, instead of actively trying to understand all points of view.  People today are too worried about being ri

  T here is no denying the impact social media has had on thew world over the last decade.  Facebook has dominated the industry, Twitter has gone from a niche for friends to use to a news platform, and Instagram has become a career for some people.  But, with all the benefits social media brings, it comes with a fairly big amount of detriments.  First, the rise of social media has made people more comfortable with giving out private information.  As we learned in class, and as America has seen over the past couple of years with the Facebook privacy scandal, social media businesses are just that: businesses.  Their main goal is to make money, and they do so through some fairly suspicious ways.  Social media platforms, like Facebook, sell information to third parties, like Cambridge Analytica, in order to make money.  These companies then go and use the information to target things such as ads and websites to these people out of nowhere.  The joke of "I talked about buying shoes a

  In class, we have gone over Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations and Ideas, and attempted to plug things into the graph to see its trend.  For this blog, I will be using Drones, and seeing their trends as related to what we have learned in class.  For the graph, there are 5 main parts: Exploratory, Uptake/Ascent, Tipping Point, Saturation, and Laggards.  Exploratory holds the pioneers or inventors of the product, and says that only people who invented it or use it for a specialized field will have need for it.  The Uptake/Ascent category holds the Early Adopters, who are the people that saw the benefit of the product or idea earlier than most.  The Tipping Point is the point where the product has been accepted as necessary in society, and many people have one or are planning to get one.  The saturation line shows how as time goes on, and more people buy the product or accept the idea, it becomes more and more assumed that everyone will have one.  Finally, the laggards are people who