Desiree Figueroa

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Final: The Online Community and the Individual

Desiree Figueroa MCS 244 Spring 2019 Final Paper According to Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, in order to achieve self-actualization our basic physiological and safety needs must be met. The next most vital human needs to be met are for love and belonging. (Mcleod, 2018) We live in a world full of complex interactions. The level …

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Group activity evaluation

What was your activity? Please be specific on what you asked the class to do and what you hoped it would accomplish. Part one of our activity was to listen to the song video killed the radio star and answer questions on how it related to Mcluhan’s theories. This was an attempt to demonstrate the …

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Class Activity

Hi Everyone! Karey and I will be presenting  on Thursday (April 4th) on the topic of media theory based on the reading by Marshal McLuhan. For the first activity we will we ask that you get into four groups ( about 4 people in each). We will play the first music video that was ever …

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Apps, Blockchain, and Digital Currency

The internet has the capacity to incite change in society that is unprecedented. People cannot deny the influence that the connectivity provided by the internet has on the world. The great beauty in the internet is that it is ever changing; it evolves along side its users. The internet’s evolution is reflected in the movement …

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Media Forms Across Cultures

Media plays an ever present role in the everyday lives of modern people. While in the past it may have been possible to avoid some of media’s influence, that is simply not an option in the world we live in. Even people who do not have direct access to a wide range of the advanced …

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The Internet of Things

To say that the connectivity of the world has been revolutionized by the internet is a vast understatement when you consider “the internet of things.” When I first began regularly using the internet as a child, I saw it as a way to chat with my friends and not have to read through books for …

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Digital & Traditional Television

Desiree Figueroa MCS 244- March 5- Reality Tv Blog Post  Digital media has no doubt made the public consume more content. Since we have the benefits of viewing programs on the go and also easier means of producing our own content the television has grown in an unpredictable way.   Disruptive trends allow viewers more …

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Crowdsourcing

Crowdsourcing is defined as a means of getting tools and services needed for business from a large group as opposed to the traditional modes that have been established in the past. Crowdsourcing relies heavily on media generated from the online community and has marked a significant shift in the way media is shared, distributed, used, …

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Media and Politics

Social media has quickly rose to become one of the public’s most prevalent means of getting news on political campaigns. Seeing political images, comments, and stories is an inescapable component of being on a social media site. Politicians are constantly trying to get their message out, especially when campaigning. Social media makes doing this quite …

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Blogging V. Traditional Journalism

During the genesis of blogging’s popularity people began to buzz with predictions that blogging could replace traditional journalism. People are still wondering that today as blogs are alive, well, and thriving. I think it makes a lot of sense why there would be so much speculation on this, but I do not agree with the …

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