Zachary Adornetto: Media Law & Literacy

 Online Privacy Online privacy has become a big topic over the past couple of years because of the growth of social media. Almost all information that gets put online by you can be seen or distributed even though you thought you were protecting your info. This is a very scary thing because you never know what could happen to your online info. This could affect my family and I because much of our information and cards could be traced and have money taken away from us. Many people can't afford to have any money taken from them to help provide for their families. This is why online privacy is so important. Not only can your info be taken but personal info could be found and things about you could go public that you don't want people to know.  So what could the government do to help stop this? The government could make it illegal to track or look up others' information. Because as of now some of the biggest companies in the world can look up all the info they want and will ha

Artificial Intelligence Video Reflection   Learning about Artificial Intelligence is scary and amazing at the same time. Seeing the exponential growth of technology in our lives is an extraordinary experience. Seeing the growth can make you think about the pros and cons and why maybe we would want to slow down a little on the growth of technology. I believe one of the biggest pros would be efficiency. Meaning that everything we do will become quicker and more reliable with the help of AI. Things that would take hours can now be done in seconds and take little to no effort. This means though that people will become lazier and rely more on technology. The cons are more extensive for sure. Like people losing their job because a computer can do what they can do in less time and be way more cost-efficient. also, the risk of these AI invading privacy to gather more information about yourself for future references on what you like. The craziness with AI will only grow and be more and more int

  EOTO #2: Online influencers What is an online influencer? An online influencer is someone who has a big following on a social media platform that helps brands market products and is someone who has a lot of followers making them someone people look up to. In recent years online influencers have become some of the biggest personalities in America and have a great influence on the younger generation ahead. The implication of an influencer is just someone with a huge following that brands do deals with to help promote things and products to the public. For example, many companies will reach out to YouTubers and do deals with them to put their product of some sort in their videos so maybe that influencers audience will be more inclined to purchase or seek out this product. This is good for companies because it helps them market without having to go to commercial television and make commercials. They can have just as many people see their product and spend less money by just having this

  Youtube: Theory of Diffusion  One very innovative piece of social media in the past decade was youtube. Youtube was created in 2005, to help people share home videos over the internet. But since then youtube has expanded to be one of the biggest social platforms in the world and has created many jobs for people. Youtube was able to catch on to the everyday life of many because it gave people a way to upload or watch things they are interested in without having to turn on the tv. So many people became early adopters of youtube because the platform was easily usable and gave people an outlet to express how they feel through videos. Videos were made about all sorts of things, literally anything you could think of there is probably a youtube video of it out there. Some people didn't adapt to youtube because it can be very personal. Some people like “vlogging” which is recording your day to day showing people what you like doing and what you have done during that day. Some people ju

      In the mainstream media it is very hard to see anything about anti war or anything that isn't exactly promoted or co-signed by the government. It almost seems that you have to go outta your way and seek out this information on your own. These websites such as Antiwar.com and the American Conservative are rare to find in google searches and many platforms because it goes against the American norm even though it’s their right to talk about this and educate others about what they are feeling. I believe you have to seek out these websites because the military doesn't want the everyday person to hear negative things about the military because they want it to keep its reputation and strong representation to the public. Being honest before having to look at these sites for class I have never heard or seen of these websites before. Which ultimately makes me think that the military and government doesn't want this kind of negativity towards them on the internet for the whole p

Youtube And Its Evolution:      There are many technologies over the course of time that have been invented to improve, entertain, communicate, travel and much much more. But in recent times many technologies have been created to entertain the public. And one of the oldest ways to entertain people has been cinematography. One website that was created to entertain on a whole new level was Youtube. A platform created in 2005 that was invented to help people share moments from their household videos by uploading them to the public online. Youtube has since blew up and become one of the biggest platforms in the world with millions of creators who put out content everyday. People started posting videos of their hobbies, opinions, and viral content to the whole world. Youtube was created on February 14th, 2005 by three people Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. These three were former employees of the company Paypal and believed a website where people could post their home videos to sh