Social Capital gone bad

Social Capital is the idea that there are certain shared values shared by a group or groups that allow them to pursue a common purpose. This idea is often used to explain why certain groups of people, particularly minorities, become successful in a society or a part of society, such as Jewish people being great …

Journalism films and civic engagement

A grisly car crash at an intersection has occurred. Nearby drivers' necks turn to rubber as no one can look away from the horrifying scene, each trying to get a good view of the event. From over the horizon, a red car blazes through the streets, police scanner blaring. A man with a camera steps …

Civic Engagement in Politics

My own experience with political and civic engagement is a strange one. I was certainly presented with the idea of expressing my civicism through voting in elections in school, but I did not learn much beside that. Much of the civic engagement that I am now aware of I learned through my experience working in …

Who in news reporting is interested in media literacy?

Who can afford to invest in Media Literacy training? Who even cares about this topic? Would a news organization choose to support Media Literacy if it benefitted the public but hurt their bottom line? Do small, local news organizations and large, national news organizations view this topic the same way? I think this topic is …

You Won’t Believe These 5 Weird Tricks Websites Use to Get You to Read Their Articles! : Clickbait in Digital Journalism

There have been many a time that articles with quite interesting titles have caught my eye, causing my to click on them to view the interesting topic it proposes, only to read through the article and realize that any and all substance of it was in the title, leaving me hollow and uninformed. I, like …