Media Law and Literacy

I will admit I have a very bad relationship with technology. Growing up while I was that kid no one wanted to play with I turned to technology. I remember spending tons of time on my family computer doing First In Math courses or practicing my reading skills on Starfall. And I guess since technology was newer to my parents I had a lack of cybersecurity, Which led me to go on websites and apps that a middle schooler shouldn’t have. I remember when Kik, snapchat  and instagram were super popular in my school. We would create group chats and post “selfies” etc. Looking back on it I did make good memories on snapchat and such but I became very self critical of myself and became addicted to getting validation from others. Now I don’t use those apps as much when it comes to posting myself but I do use filters on snapchat. There always has to be one on. I don’t know why but I just don’t like posting anything without this specific one.  The Horrors of Kik Messenger.. When it comes to ...

One thing I learned from the EOTO presentations was that people get famous for the most dumbest things sometimes. Like I remember during the pandemic a lot of people got famous on Tik Tok for stealing african american trends, or mannerisms (AAVE) and getting tons of likes and followers while black creators were being “Shadowbanned” on the app. Now since Tik Tok personalizes the content you see of course they are going to also have a say in what content they want you to see. Shadowbanning is when they specifically neglect to push your content to your followers and sometimes even “force” your followers to unfollow you. Like one of the examples in the presentation was Jeffree Star. Jeffree Star is a beauty influencer who makes his own cosmetics. Now when he would review beauty products he seemed like a strong advocate for diversity in the industry and trying to have more variety of skin tones. However Jeffree Star has a very racist past. He even called a black beauty influencer a “goril...