Media Law and Literacy with YaBoi Nic

  I've prepared a powerpoint talk for you today link:  https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-h1uzZ5Fb8JN3OkCDqXu08alb9stuLLwSxN0674YKZ4/edit?usp=sharing -enjoy :)

      My Group’s presentation was focused on policies that are very grey area on whether or not they are doing more good than bad or more bad than good. My specific policy that I researched was vertical integration. Vertical Integration happens when a company takes over multiple parts of the suply chain of a product. There is forward integration; When a company own a middle part of production and extends their reach forward or towards the finishing of the product, And there is backwards integration; when a company owns a middle part of production and extends their reach backwards in production in the direction of the raw goods.  It works sort of like this: Backward integration: Forward Integration:     While the above diagram is an oversimplification of how vertical integration works, you can see the general idea of it. Vertical integration is definitely a grey area policy. While it is not technically a monopoly and thus isnt prohibited by anti-trust regulation, it still has monopoly t

  One of the modern technologies that really caught my attention during the presentations was Netflix. I was old enough to have spent a large part of my childhood in and out of blockbuster. I remember when me and my brother would run up and down the isles just looking at all the movies and waiting for our dad to find a movie for us to watch that night. I also remember when our blockbuster closed and watched it tun into an Aldi's and it broke my heart. However, as an adult, I appreciate the convenience that Netflix provides as a service I pay for once a month and get unlimited streaming of whatever they have to offer. I didn't previously know that Netflix started very much so like blockbuster as an individual movie mailing service however the innovation of creating a first of its kind platform where you can stream straight from the site is stellar. They started a new market of their own, one that has recently become extremely competitive with new streaming sites popping up like

(Opinion Piece)      With as much as is going on in the world and the numerous ways we can interpret and have opinions on events, it is quite astonishing that we only seem to see the most political, the most polarizing, and the most extremist views. Why is that?  Well, we've discussed a lot of this in class during both of the EOTO presentations - News media is all largely owned by the same companies. Since each of these companies tend to lean one way or another they are going to give whatever perspective is the majority for their audience so that they can continue making money. Polarization also works in favor of politicians. News becomes the most polarized around election seasons. It's easy to look at 2020 as an extremely chaotic year, however, there wasn't much going on in 2020 that isn't normally going on with the exception of a pandemic. 2020 just happened to be an election year so it was the job of media on each side to villainize the other side and sway people to

My EOTO presentation was on technological advancement and impact that Google has had on society which is a pretty loaded topic to cram into a fairly short presentation. The impact of google and its consistent growth and advancement has been felt across the world in many ways. It has allowed information to become more accessable 

  I actually really enjoyed this movie. It reminded me a lot of the first communications fellows movie we watched at the beginning of the year called Coded Bias . It was about the biases of A.I. coding and the impact it has on an increasingly technologically advancing society. The film Age of A.I. discusses both the positive sides and the negative sides of the rapid advancement of technology and how it's being implemented in different parts of the world.  The most interesting part to me was learning about how they use A.I. and face recognition in China in order to maintain civility as well as to measure the credibility of of people. Applying for a loan is no longer something that has to do with your credibility on paper. It also take into account your past history, your facial expressions while you do it and even the percent your phone battery is at while you apply in order to measure an individual's credibility and responsibility.  It's kinda scary that even our faces, th

 I am a black woman who has had the pleasure of growing up in DC and living in DC during the 2020 summer protests against police brutality in the wake of the senseless murder of George Floyd. I also am someone who has been the victim and knows many other people who became victims of police brutality during peaceful protests. Since I am decidedly fed up with the only discussion about the protest of this past summer in this class being the villainization of the few violent protesters (many of whom were right wing plants) and how well the proud boys did protesting, I will be discussing the ways in which law enforcement and state government have undermined these laws over the course of the George Floyd protest.  Note: Not all of the charges against the accused has reached a final verdict yet, however former Officer Derek Chauvin at this moment has been charged with second degree murder, second degree manslaughter and a recently reinstated charge of third degree murder as well.  The murder

During our Unit 4 lecture about the eight values of free expression as told through the lens of a bunch of white dudes with relatively minimal amounts oppressive experience through various points in history. I'm very curious to know how many people of prominent minority identity had a say about the values on this list. Any who, of the 8, I think I'm the least discomforted by the theory presented by Vince Blasi which states that we as the individual people are part of the checks and balances of the government. I like this law for the same reason I love twitter (See Post 1); Because the government will focus it's efforts on what we as the people keep buzzing about. But in a more traditional interpretation of this value it's important to analyze how the checks and balances of the government work and then view how the individual is bolstered by it. In class we discussed how the bill of rights is what allows there to be vertical and horizontal check and balances for the gove