Final Exam Blog

In all honestly, there is nothing wrong with technology. We might think about all of the problems that come behind it but majority of the issues associated are really all social. Not saying that with the beginning of technology followed cyberbullying which was a great thing, but you are bound to run in some issues or cons with something so great. People are the problem, not technology, it should not be blamed for the behaviors and actions of civilians. With everything comes responsibility in my opinion, and some just cannot handle that type of accountability or obligation. Everyone in some form has a relationship with technology, you cannot say that it isn’t the best thing that has happened to everyone across the globe. If the relationship is healthy or unhealthy, it is entirely on humans to know how to control and use it. For me personally, my relationship with technology is NOW healthy. When I was younger I had a really bad relationship with technology, and the overusing was really getting to me. As a teen, we are bored half the time so we want something that will accommodate us constantly, now I feel like being on social media or anything is draining to me. I’ve seen the change of how I use it the older I’ve gotten and it has been a drastic adjustment. Sometimes I could say I can over abuse the amount of time I spend on my phone due to boredom but I realized being on my phone for so long is so unhealthy, it changes the way I think and act, even my mood sometimes. Technology can defiantly inform whistle misleading you, but it is solely up to that individual to choose what they want to believe in. I do often worry about the future involving technology, how advance is it going to be and what impact is it going to have on civilization. I don’t know if it’s the movies that scare me but I have a feeling that in the near future technology will be the means to all, and not really in a good way. Technology will be the face of everything, and you also have to think about those who do not even have access to any type of technology, what will become of those people? I hope what I am saying could be wrong but all signs point to that outcome right now in this moment.   

https://study.com/academy/lesson/how-technology-impacts-society-the-environment.html

EOTO Pt.2

A term I found most interesting in group 3’s terms was gatekeeping. The gatekeeping theory is the link between two inarguable facts, events occur everywhere all of the time and the news media cannot cover all of them. And so, when an event occurs, someone has to decide whether and how to pass the information to another person, such as a friend, an official, or even a journalist. Gatekeeping was one of many theories applied to the new doctoral-level academic field of communications, mass communication, and journalism in the 1950s and 1960s. During this period, the first PhDs in communication were graduated. Many degree holders became university professors, expected to teach and study their new field. They were influenced by the theories that had been introduced by their doctoral faculty, who had come from the social sciences, especially psychology, sociology, social psychology, political science, and anthropology. So, it is no coincidence that gatekeeping’s father, Kurt Lewin, was a psychologist turned social psychologist. This interdisciplinary social science perspective broadened the study of mass communication beyond the narrow confines of professionally oriented journalism schools. Billions of events occur in the world each day, but only a few of them become news. The process through which this occurs is referred to as gatekeeping. Billions of events occur in the world each day, but only a few of them become news. The process through which this occurs is referred to as gatekeeping. Some is withheld and the rest is not unchanged, as if it were merely squeezed from a gatekeeping sponge.

https://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199756841/obo-9780199756841-0011.xml

EOTO Pt.1 AWARENESS

With awareness comes disinformation, disinformation is information that is false and deliberately created to harm a person, social group, organization or country. Many people confuse disinformation with the other term misinformation, which in some cases be in the same sense. Misinformation is information that is false but not created with the intention of causing harm. Throughout the media you are likely to stumble upon various sources, articles, and blogs that incorporate a lot of misinformation sometimes. Not because the author behind the blog wants to mislead you but their own sources are not credible and likely false, so they just continue to spread the misinformation to the public, often times creating a disturbance in the public. With disinformation, you would see many journalists or publishes intentionally trying to misinform the public purposely to stern panic. They often do this because their higher ups tell them to, sometimes just to gain more media attention towards that outlet. Developments in the last few years have placed journalism under fire. A range of factors are transforming the communications landscape, raising questions about the quality, impact and credibility of journalism. At the same time, orchestrated campaigns are spreading untruths, disinformation, mal-information and misinformation which are often unwittingly shared on social media. Facebook has tracked this issue and has tried several ways to keep information like this off of its platform. I think this was the best thing to do considering how many people really engage in Facebook, also the type of audience that falls into its category.  

https://en.unesco.org/fightfakenews