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What stuck with me after reading this is the fact that mass media is completely taken over now. The mass media completely controls the news we get today. This is why we have so much fake news. It seems like they can truly post anything about anyone nowadays. The worst part is people believe itContinue reading “Benkler Reading Response”

What stuck with me in this article was the anxiety that “fake news” brings. It is ridiculous on what people will post these days. What’s even worse is what people will believe. I love how ridiculous it is when people believe things on social media platforms but don’t do their research and start telling everythingContinue reading “Laquintano and Vee Reading Response”

What stuck with me when reading through How to Do Nothing was the quote “Look back in memory and consider… How many have robbed you of life when you were not aware of what you were losing, how much was taken up in useless sorrow, in foolish joy, in greedy desire, in the allurements ofContinue reading “READING RESPONSE WEEK 10 ASSIGNMENT 1”

For my research question, I would like to ask how Coronavirus has affected our economy. I want to know what has happened to the stock market overall within categories of businesses and which industries have actually might have benefitted because of this epidemic. I would also like to research which industries have been impacted theContinue reading “SWA”

What really stuck with me in Nakamura’s article was “though the act of communicating with the public about racism, sexism, homophobia, and other social justice issues is unpaid, and often results in the poster being harassed, trolled, and threatened on these fora, these authors claim this content adds traffic and value to these platforms byContinue reading “Reading Response 7”

I didn’t find this article as entertaining as last week’s since it was a case study but I do agree on a lot of things that were said. I really do agree with the idea when the author said, “As texts become the chief vehicles for economic transactions and the chief grounds for making profitsContinue reading “Reading Response 6”

Who needs to hear your analysis? current NCAA players and aspiring college athletes What central point are you trying to make in your analysis? that D1 athletes should be paid What problem might your analysis mediate or solve? Who needs to hear your analysis? With those things in mind, what specific composition choices did youContinue reading “Rationale Workshop”

Tolentino uses rhetoric by comparing the speeches of Christine Blasey Ford and Kavanaugh and how Ford’s speech was “unfailingly polite and deferential while being interrogated at length about a traumatic experience. She spoke like a woman who had understood since childhood that survival requires anticipating and accepting the displeasure of men” compared to Kavanaugh’s whichContinue reading “Engagement 2/26/20”

Option 2: I once got a passive aggressive note my freshman year of college when my roommate left a note on my desk saying “make sure to take the trash” when we were all moving out. I had to stay a day extra because my flight was the following day and buddy had the audacityContinue reading “Engagement 2/24”

A specific example that stood out to me about this excerpt was the part of the anonymity of online culture vs. the standardized displays of affection within the workplace. As the article stated that the workplace tends to leave grievances and affection silent, would I prefer a workplace to bring in the culture of standardizedContinue reading “Reading Response #5”