Social media has become the norm. The world has shifted towards media over the decades. Journalists utilize media more than the traditional newspaper because the majority of their audience views them through media. People easily share the articles with their friends rather than having to physically show their friend in person a newspaper article. Media …
February 2019 archive
Feb 19
Social media & Politics
Social media has become a big game changer for much of our lives. It has become a new way of marketing. Just like businesses, politicians are marketing themselves online. Gathering crowds that can relate to them and allowing these viewers to see news and goals first. Instead of political campaigns through ads and speeches, they …
Feb 19
How has media changed political campaigns? What are the positives / negatives?
http://https://www.google.com/search?q=donald+trump&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjL64jq8sbgAhWBt1kKHbzIDiwQ_AUIDygC&biw=960&bih=468#imgrc=CROcxSmR0_luvM: Throughout the years we have seen the number of social media platforms and media tools in general grow exponentially. These platforms have advertised themselves to be useful for connecting users to their friends, family, and strangers. The number of people who have phones and other devices with cameras has increased, as well as the …
Feb 18
Social Media & Politics
Before social media having an impact on political campaigns, a way a political candidate would interact with their followers would be by doing speeches across the United States. Thanks to social media platforms especially Twitter it has changed political campaigns one can just write a 140 message and they are instantly interacting with their followers. …
Feb 17
Group Activity Evaluation
Nairim Michel Mariano Montague What was your activity? Please be specific on what you asked the class to do and what you hoped it would accomplish. Our activity consisted of identifying the differences between blog posts and news. We created a 3 part activity based off true or false and creating two posts to …
Feb 16
Crowdsourcing and User-Generated Content
Crowdsourcing has challenged the long-held notion that professionally-produced content is more valuable or desired than that which is made by amateurs. Due to technological advances, ordinary people who have not specialized in a specific skill can create profitable goods or merchandise that is equally appealing, without the years of training. For example, affordable cameras now …
Feb 14
MCS 224: FEB 14 Mariano & Nairim
The class activity is broken into 3 parts , part1 is determining whether or not the statements are a blog post or a traditional post . Part 2 is to create 2 headlines, one that would most likely be from a traditional news report, and one from a blog. Part 3 is choosing one headline …
Feb 14
Social Media and Politics
Social Media has changed politics, by having more political information go on media now. Now people can talk and send out information, ( true or not true) to their friends or people that are following the. People like Donald Trump have found out the best way to stay relevant is through social media. In the …
Feb 14
How Social Media Impacted Political Campaigns
Media’s effect on politics has made it so that no political campaign will never be seen without one. This is free publicity and it can reach a wider audience than one usually would without it. The beauty behind it is that you let the people spread a message you sent out, then you let them, …
Feb 14
Social Media and politics
The effects that social media has made during the times of campaigning has been very overwhelming. Social media has made a drastic difference in the way our political leaders has connected with its people. In the article, “Pithy, Mean and Powerful: How Donald Trump Mastered Twitter for 2016” it states how president Donald Trump has …