Media Law and Literacy

TED TALK Throughout the semester in class we have been talking and reading about how much technology has advanced, how it impacts us and more recently how this advanced technology affects our privacy information. I decided to write my post on the ted talk "How to avoid surveillance... with the phone in your pocket" by Christopher Soghoian. He talks about how phone and computer companies have put surveillance features in our phones and computers to record our emails, texts, calls, etc. There have been huge cases regarding this. For example, with Facebook people's account and private information is being leaked and they are getting hacked from outside sources and how the new amazon Alexa is always listening to conversations that are held near the device. Many people have also had problems with advertisements online. If you look something up, a clothing company for example, then you will get advertisements for the clothing company on other websites you visit because the

Two weeks ago in class we had presentations on theories and concepts in communication. The concept that I found interesting was about awareness, specifically disinformation. I found this interesting because it is a huge issue in our world today, especially with news and politics and it also related to theory (confirmation bias) and I thought that I would relate the two. First, disinformation is false information that is purposely said to mislead consumers. This is a huge issue in news stations and social media because they say things that are current around the world and they want you to believe what they said. This relates to my confirmation bias because they both have to do with fake news. For example, if someone believes something, whether it's true or not, and saw it on the news they would automatically confirm that it is true because the news is reliable so they have no reason not to believe them. The disinformation would confirm their believe regardless if it is true or not