Social Media Activism: Yay or Nay?

Image from learning for justice.org. Growing up, I could not wait to be an adult. I was eager to explore the world, find myself, and to just do adult things. When my parents and elders noticed that I was rushing my childhood, they would say "do not rush your childhood, you are an adult longer …

Are you a person that relies on social media?

Relying on media for your own civic engagement would be bad in my option. Why would you want to rely on other people's thoughts on the media as your voice in the world? It does not seem right, that could not makes sense because you should have your own thoughts on what happens in public …

Great People Are White People, According to Google

“The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.”Malcolm X The term, misogynoir, coined by African American feminist and activist Moya Bailey, was developed to describe “the specific hatred, dislike, …

Harms of Conspiracy Theories

Photo by: Getty Images Are conspiracy theories harmful to the makeup of media literacy? Conspiracy theories can manipulate information to grow a following on a topic or have people question the actual reality of a situation. There are possibilities that conspiracy theories are true, but there is a lot of speculation about spreading ideas around. …

Why Does Bias Matter?

Bias is almost unnoticeable yet all pervasive in the media we consume and the news outlets we listen to. But what is bias exactly? There are multiple forms of bias but the major form of bias that connects with the topics of this course is media bias. In the simplest terms, "media bias is the …

How Does Bias Effect Storytelling?

History is a soundproof set of facts right? Dates, events, and people are all written down in history. History is nothing but the truth, or that is how it is supposed to be at least, but what happens when we add bias to storytelling. The narrative then changes. These set of facts and dates become, …

Blindsided by people being Bias!

Many wonder what being biased means, it means "prejudice in favor of or against one thing, person, or group compared with another, usually in a way considered to be unfair." When seeing a person who is bias in their head everything they think is completely the right thing and there's no other answer but what …

Wake up America & say NO to racial stereotypes

Image from 'The Columbus Dispatch' https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2021/05/25/ohio-republicans-introduce-bill-ban-teaching-critical-race-theory/7432289002/ When talking about race and racism, how do you feel? Do you feel sad, happy, or dismissed? For many, the conversation of race and racism is extremely hard to have, especially when there are groups of people who benefit from it, while others do not. In 2021, the conversation …

Are Online Opinions Confusing Consumers of News?

In an age where anyone can post anything online at any time, and at little to no cost, it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish opinions and fake news from real news. Filled to the brim with unsubstantiated information that is accessible at the blink of an eye, the Internet has not only transformed how …

Conspiracy Theories Continue to Proliferate Thanks to Digital Journalism

In this day and age of digital journalism, it has become increasingly easier for individuals on the Internet to produce media and content of whatever topic they choose and spread their information around quickly and efficiently. While this quality of the Internet is helpful in the case of alerting the public of an emergency or …