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

Invasion of Privacy

After viewing all these videos on government invasion and privacy, I am actually utterly shocked at how easy and accessible the government can go in and hack into our data and livelihood. I feel as though no one should have that much power to be able to access our data, basically viewing everything we say and do. This system is just not normal, it’s actually very criminal in a way. I can see the purposes for being able to look up the locations of everyone, but looking behind those doors are not okay. They base your phone information and data on your person, they think they know you ends and out, which honestly having all that access shows that they do indeed. You could ask around, ask authorities if they have access to all of this information, they’ll deny it. The police say they hang on to all of this information, just to save it for a rainy day but really, they want to know everything about you really all for their own benefit. I never knew the power and control the government had on all of our lives, it’s so scary. I don’t like this one bit, it is very criminal in my opinion and shouldn’t be the case. I hope one day this action can come to an end, that people rise up and put an end to this act. The government is abusing their power, which they know and no one is big enough to put an end to this.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/234215.234476