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When you click on your t.v. you don’t see real life news like you are used to anymore, nowadays if you were to click on the news there would channels that consider “Kim Kardashian shares ‘almost impossible’ first photo with all four kids”(Garvey, 2019) news worthy. How has social media platforms impacted the public opinions…

“Two Ways a Woman can Get Hurt: Advertising and Violence” by Jean Kilbourne, paints a picture of abuse, objectification, and oppression of women. Similarly, Elline Lipkin’s essay, “Girls’ Bodies, Girls’ Selves: Body Image, Identity and Sexuality” talks about how much the media, along with, societal pressure has really affected women in their day to day…

Introduction The United States of America is exhibited throughout the world as the land of opportunity. America is famous for this idea because of the “American Dream,” meaning that if you work hard in America, you will prosper. Although many argue that this is not the case for many that move to America, immigrants, especially…

In the ages of information technology, television and newspaper have emerged as two types of popular mass media. These two types of media have become more and more essential in our modern life. Although they share common in updating information and diversifying in classification, there are different from the way people created them to the…

Neil Postman argues that the knowledge created by electronic media is inferior to the knowledge created by literate media. According to Postman there are various reasons for this, the first being that knowledge in an electronic culture is fragmented. By this he means that we receive bits of information that we have to piece together….

Throughout the years smartphones have grown to play an important role within our society today. Currently in our world today most people aren’t able to live without their smartphones. We have been so accustomed to constantly using smartphones to the point where our brains have become dependent on it and we seem to imagine life…

Denotatively, Addiction is defined as “a primary, chronic disease of brain reward, motivation, memory and related circuitry.” (American Society of Addiction Medicine) Individuals that perpetually engage in unhealthy habits such as overconsumption of fast food and social media has an increased likelihood of falling into endless loops of gratification seeking behaviors, with its detrimental effects…

A piece from the Associated Press appeared in this year’s February 8th issue of TIME Magazine reporting that the Microsoft Corporation and its 80 person strong anti-piracy team, with the assistance of U. S. Customs officers and various Chinese officials had recently taken down a major Taiwan-based software piracy ring. The retail value of the…

Abstract The relationship between social media and empathy has not been explored extensively. Research on the expression of emotion and the association with empathy displayed on social media websites have been minimally explored. This study sought to support findings that posting online leads to expressions of empathy (Rosen, 2012) and a positive relationship exists between…

The epidemic of Fake News A comprehensive report This paper is an examination of how false news stories have influenced our political process and how we can prevent these stories from controlling the press.  In this section, I review the multiple instances of Fake News influencing our political system, and how the American people have…