brain dump by zoe

     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 '...

       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...

     The Eight Values of Free Expression are a marketplace of ideas, participation in self-government, stable change, individual self-fulfillment, checking on government power, promotion of tolerance, promotion of innovation, and protection of dissent. The value of the free expression that resonates most with me is individual fulfillment. Free speech enables us as individuals to have the freedom to express ourselves and create our own identity. As a college student, we are all going through a time in our life where we are discovering who we truly are as individuals and becoming that version of ourselves. The branch of freedom of speech becomes an aspect of our own human dignity, agency, and autonomy. This theory also stands out as the most important and personal to me. It is crazy that even today, we are still discussing the topic of human agency and autonomy in the United States or anywhere in the world.  It is such a simple concept that people should have rights ov...

  After exploring both sites  Antiwar.com  &  American Conservative  and reading the views of the writers. I think that these antiwar voices are not commonly heard in the mainstream media because our media today tries to sugar-coat our news as much as possible. On most morning shows, we do not hear that much news anymore. They tell us about the weather, new gadgets to be on the lookout for, and celebrity gossip. Currently, with the news from Covid-19 as well as the upcoming election we are hearing a bit more political news that we would usually hear on the mainstream media but after the election is settled and Covid-19 is no more I feel that our news will just go back to normal.     A lot of the media right now is filled with negativity. "News" in the United States can be from any topic under the sun, it just depends on how you present it to your audience. Our lives are constantly filled with so much negativity and our mainstream media wants o...

   I was able to watch the documentary Coded Bias through the Media Fellow Program and thought that this was a great way to further understand the documentary. When watching the documentary it was hard to believe that a lot of the information that was presented was real. It all seemed like it should be in an episode of the show Black Mirror. With all the technology that we have today, it's not a secret that everything you do online is monitored. All of the information for every purchase, social media interaction, or apps is tracked and used for everything under the sun. Today, data is more valuable than oil. A lot of people know that these sorts of things are already happening but do not care to act upon change because there isn't much the people can do to stop being monitored. Data collection and trade is just simply a part of our daily life now.    I am partially unbothered by this practice because, in public relations and social media marketing, we rely on this da...

     The First Amendment says that "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." The first amendment does not condone the government from constraining citizens speech. Freedom of speech is not absolute and certain types of speech can be prohibited or considered outright. Some types of free speech can be more easily constrained compared to others. Furthermore, speech may be more easily regulated depending upon circumstances and location at which it takes place.       The First Amendment is split into six established clause: (1) the right to be free from the governmental establishment of religion  (2) the right to be free from governmental interference with the practice of religion  (3) the right to free speech (4) the ...

    " The Supreme Court of the United States (or SCOTUS) is the highest federal court in the country and the head of the judicial branch of government. Established by the U.S. Constitution, the Supreme Court has the ultimate jurisdiction over all laws within the United States and is responsible for evaluating the constitutionality of those laws."      With the recent event of Ruth Badger Ginsburg's passing, I wanted to research and write about the history of The Supreme Court as well as Ginsburg's influences and legacy. Since I am not extremely familiar with the history of both topics I think that writing this post will benefit me for this class but also  the issue of the open seat in the upcoming election.       The United States Supreme Court was established in 1789 by Article Three of the U.S. Constitution. This article not only established the Constitution but also granted Congress the power to create inferior federal courts. An infe...