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 regula...

  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 ...