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My Final Blog Post: Raised by the Internet

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     As previously mentioned in my Privacy TEDtalk videos blog post I believe that I have a pretty large online footprint. Ever since I was around 8 or 9 I started to explore the internet and made accounts on random sites, giving my email out to whoever needed it without even thinking about how this could affect me in the future. Since then, I have joined many different social media sites, too many to count that I don't even use on a daily basis and often forget that I am a part of. The sites that I use the most are Instagram, Snapchat, and TikTok. I post something to each of these platforms at least once a day whether that be a story or a feed post. On Snapchat and Instagram, I post to both my private/close friend's stories as well as my public story. I like to share anything and everything because I find it fun, but have also grown up in a society where everyone thinks that everyone cares about them way more than they actually do. My private Snapchat may be a way to sha...
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EOTO Reflection

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    The EOTO topic I enjoyed the most was Online Influencers. I found this topic super interesting to add in with the rest of the topics because they really are an important part of how we as a society consume media. An Online  Influencer is a person on social media who in most cases markets themselves on the internet and social media platforms. Before the start of Youtube in 2005, being an online influencer was not a job as we know it today. With the way YouTube was designed people were able to create an income off of ad revenue from videos. Once the greater public realized that you can make money off of content creation, people from all over the globe with all types of interests joined the space creating a wave of influencers. YouTube users could watch ordinary people gain immense about of fame and fortune just by posting a weekly video. Fast forward a couple of year, with the popularity of Instagram and TikTok, it is getting easier and easier for people to gain a follo...
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The Smith-Mundt Act

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    Named for Representative Senator Karl Mundt, the bill was introduced in January 1945 and signed into law in January 1948. The Smith-Mundt Act origins trace back to World War II, in an effort to consolidate wartime propaganda. This law prohibited the U.S. Department of state and the broadcasting board of governors from spreading information within the U.S. This law was implemented out of fear that the government produced programming by networks, such as the Voice of America and Radio Free Europe, would "propagandize" the American people.      With the arrival of the 21st century, along came the technology of the 21st century. With the wide accessibility of the internet. Unlike material produced in the past, anyone in the world could access this misinformation. In 2012, President Obama adopted the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act which did not authorize broadcasting or the creation of programming for U.S. audiences by the U.S. government but it did allow requeste...
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Privacy TEDtalk videos

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    As crazy as it may sound, online privacy has never really concerned me too much. I have been an avid lover of technology since I was around 8 years old. Back then, I would just be playing games on the computer but still knew how to input personal information onto the internet. Fast forward 13 years, making multiple accounts on many different sites and social media platforms, just by a quick google search of my first and last name even though I don't have a large following on the internet, a lot of information comes up.            Surprisingly, this does not bother me too much. The only information that I would consider private would be my cell number, and other confidential information such as credit cards, SSN, etc. In the video with  Juan Enriquez he talks about our electronic tattoos and how they identify who we are in the digital world. There are people constantly tracking anything and everything we do online. Tech...
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Diffusion of Innovations: Tik Tok

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     TikTok being a newer social media platform makes it a perfect example for the Diffusion of Innovations (DOI) theory. "The DOI theory explains how, over time, an idea or product gains momentum and diffuses/spreads through a specific population or social system (LaMorte, 2019)." Since its creation in 2016 TikTok has been downloaded over 2 billion times and currently has 850 million users (Aslam, 2020). TikTok is a short-form, video-sharing app that allows users to create and share videos that range from 3 to 60 seconds.     Because of TikTok's brand-new addition to the social media platform market there is a clear path to identify the path and process that TikTok will follow through the DOI theory.  The first step in the DOI theory path are the innovators. The innovators are the people who are open to risks and the first to try new ideas. With TikTok, the innovators could be the people who work closely with testing the app or users who wer...
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EOTO Reflection

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     As someone who is very interested in technology and loves all the newest gadgets and gizmos, I enjoyed learning about the backstory behind text messages. With always being 1 text away from a friend or family member it's easy to forget the origin of the text message. The first text message was sent in December of 1992 and read "Merry Christmas" at this time, and for a while after that, SMS could only be 160 characters which reminded me of the old Twitter format, which could only be 140 characters, after a quick Google search I found out that "Twitter began as an SMS text-based service. This limited the original Tweet length to 140 characters (which was partly driven by the 160 character limit of SMS, with 20 characters reserved for commands and usernames)" ( Counting characters,  2020). I found this very interesting that I made this connection between the two because I did not know about Twitter's origin.       Like any new technology in the '...
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YouTube Rewind

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       It's been a long day of work, classes, and homework. I open my computer and hop on  YouTube  to catch up on what my favorite creators have been working on for the past few weeks. Vlogs, cooking videos, look-books, clothing hauls, skincare tips, gaming videos. You name it, it's in my subscription tab. I scroll through the long list of brightly colored thumbnails and open all the videos in new tabs that I want to watch. I have a lot of content to watch and I can't wait to catch up with my " internet friends" on YouTube!      The Beta site Youtube was first launched in May of 2005, but that is not the origin story of YouTube. The concept of creating a video sharing platform was birthed a year before YouTube’s official launch. Former PayPal employees-Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim came up with the idea in 2004 while attending a dinner party in San Francisco. They discussed how difficult it was to find videos online and how benefi...
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