Media Law and Literacy

This week in class our group was assigned communication theories and the theory that I picked to research was confirmation bias. Confirmation bias is when people would like a certain idea or concept to be true, they start to believe that it is actually true. This occurs from the direct influence of desire on beliefs. For example, if someone is not answering your calls or texts you jump to the conclusion that they are purposely ignoring you, but they could just be busy and that is why they are not answering. This is very common with people who have anxiety. Some negatives of confirmation bias are that once people read something that confirms their beliefs they automatically assume it is right and they stop looking for other information. The news is a good example. People hear things that are going around the world and when they read it in the news, whether is true or not, they automatically believe it is true and stop looking for information that opposes their belief.  People also c...

Within the past year Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg, has been in the spotlight and in court because of Facebook's privacy policies and how people's private information has been leaked. Hackers have been using Facebook to try and get people's information by making them "sign in" to Facebook again. People would type in their email and password and basically just give their information to the hackers. In class, we learned about our online presence and how much information about us is on the internet. We had to look up ourselves on google and see what came up. When I googled myself almost all my pictures from my Instagram page were there. My LinkedIn photo was there as well as some other pictures I have uploaded to Facebook. I was amazed to see a lot of my pictures there since my account is private on Instagram. I do not have a personal website and this is my only blog account so I was very surprised. Most of my pictures that I post on Instagram I also attach the l...

For this post, I have decided to talk about the 7th value of free expression which is to promote innovation. The 7th value states that a community in which free speech is valued and protected is likely to be a more energizes, creative and interesting society as its citizens actively fulfill themselves in many diverse and interesting ways. Most people think of creative destruction as a negative, but in class we learned how it is actually a good thing and we need it to keep up with our changing society. Promoting innovation and creative destruction go hand in hand because they both encourage new ideas and ways to innovate technology that will change with our society. I think this is the most important value because we would not have the technology we have today without innovation and creative destruction. For example the computer came from typewriters, phones came from the telegraph and MP3 music came from records. This is also inspiring to me because of the technology we have today. If ...

Diffusion of Innovations- Typewriter Timeline Innovators- 1868, This is the first model of the typewriter. Christopher L. Sholes was the main inventor for the typewriter but had help from his associate Glidden which resulted in the name Sholes & Glidden Typewriter. This typewriter introduced the QWERTY that we use today, but when it first came out it only typed in capital letters. The keyboard was designed this way to separate frequently used pairs of letters so the keys would not get jammed together. Early Adopters- 1874, This is when the Sholes and Glidden typewriter first came out on the market. Although this model was slow and inefficient, they sold about 5,000 typewriters for $125 each. This typewriter had a floral design on it because typing back then was considered women's work. This opened up many jobs for women in the workplace where there weren't many before. Early Majority- 1881, This was a new model of the typewriter called The Hall, invented by Thomas H...