Digital Natives Still Susceptible to Misinformation

It's no question that social media is very popular amongst teens and young adults. Teens and young adults are being crowned the title as "digital natives" in today's day and age. A digital native is described as "people who have grown up under the ubiquitous influence of the internet and other modern information technologies.” Social …

Your Resume May Be Too “Black”

As a current college student looking for internships for the summer, I have found it to be difficult without having access to the proper connections especially with my major. Since I go to a liberal arts college in a small town as a film major, my social network is going to be smaller than those …

The Dangers of Discord

I came across this article and thought it could be interesting in terms of how careless social media users are when they first see new information online. This past Friday, “Cass County residents were surprised when the Cass County Emergency Management Agency announced a switch from their typical trucks to helicopters”. The EMA were looking …

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, …

The Importance of a Media Literacy Curriculum

Media literacy was a new term to me prior to this class. From my previous education, I was soley taught to make sure my essays and research papers had “reliable” and “peer-edited” sources. With that mindset, that made me think any article straight from Google search was an unreliable source and should not be integrated …