Twitter’s Coverage of News Events

Twitter is the new way of communicating with friends, peers, and the world. Within the click of a button and 280 characters, journalists and modern-day citizens can influence the planet within seconds. While Twitter can be used to discuss various topics, a subject that is discussed frequently is newsworthy to our country. More recently, the …

How Civic Knowledge is Taught in Our History Classes Through Film

"A picture is worth a thousand words" is a phrase we all grew up knowing and recognizing, and out of everyone, our education system recognizes it. The school system struggles to engage students to focus and educate themselves in civic knowledge in class. From the beginning of time, history classes at a certain point have …

Media Literacy in Relation to Conspiracies: The Royal Family

By definition, media literacy encompasses the practices that allow people to access, critically evaluate, and create or manipulate media. Ever since the first smartphone came out in the early 2000s, we've had the world at our fingertips and the capability of the internet and news everywhere we go. However, with the internet and knowledge comes …

Media and News Regulation: Social Media

Social Media can be found everywhere worldwide.