Media, Law & Literacy

CNN has announced that Facebook will start removing and censoring certain ads from President Trump's re-election campaign. People are upset with Facebook for allowing President Trump's ad's to run because they believe it is causing confusion around the official U.S. Census. The U.S. Census is used to count every single person in the United States and how many of each people live in each state. The Census is used to determine how many seats are needed in the House of Representatives in each state. Facebook is being slammed by the Democratic party for not fact-checking the ads and claims that Facebook is letting the ads run because it benefits President Trump. Some of the ads read; " This survey is ESSENTIAL to our team's 2020 campaign strategy. We need Patriotic Americans like YOU to respond to this census, so we can develop a winning strategy for YOUR STATE,". The survey that was sent out asking about people's opinions on President Trump and their feelings...

Motion pictures allow people to tell stories and express themselves through images and videos. The mid 19th century is really when photography was introduced to the world, especially during the Civil War to document the battlefields during that time. An English photographer by the name of  Eadweard Muybridge took a series of pictures showing a horse in full gallop on October 19, 1878. He was hired by Leland Standford, who was a well-known horse breeder because he wanted to prove that when a horse is in full gallop that the horse will lift all four hooves off the ground at once. In order for the public to view these pictures in a "video" like manner, they were given instructions to view them through a zoetrope. A zoetrope is an old fashion way of viewing moving images by displaying a sequence of pictures showing progressive motion. There is a light in the center of the device and you spin it which depicts the "moving" image on a wall or any flat surface. After watc...

My name is Sarina Vito and I'm from Long Island, New York. I am a strategic communications major. I currently don't have a minor but I have been thinking about minoring in social media marketing. I came to HPU because my best friend, who is one year older than me, goes here and when I visited her freshman year I fell in love. After HPU I'm not entirely sure what I really want to do with my life. I know I wanna move back to New York but I don't really have a set mindset on something specific. When I was 18, I was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. AML Leukemia is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow meaning I had cancer everywhere in my body. I had to have four rounds of chemotherapy and a life-saving bone marrow transplant. The bone marrow was donated by a stranger in Germany. I had no idea who he was and he had no idea who I was. I wasn't allowed to know who he was because of a certain law that prohibits donors and recipients to have any information on each ot...

Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Standford University. Google has the most popular email server in the world with more than 1.5 billion active users. Behind Google, Youtube is the second-largest streaming service and has over 1 billion videos watched every day. Youtube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim in 2005. The impact of youtube is that it creates an entirely new medium for entertainment, it allows many companies to advertise their products and allows people to upload videos and express themselves. Ex-Google employees Evan Williams and Biz Stone in 2006 created Twitter. Twitter is now an "up to the second" news source today. Twitter allows users to post whatever they want about however they feel. Some cons are that the platform has gotten a lot of people in trouble before because of their careless tweets. However, it is also easy for people to go viral which could boost someone's career. Facebook is another widely popular social...

The first amendment was passed in 1791. It states that US citizens have freedom of speech, freedom of press, and freedom of religion. The first amendment also "protects the right to peaceful protest and to petition the government. It was passed when President George Washington was first put in office, during his first two years.  While the first amendment  provides a great deal of protection to us, there are a few exceptions in which we are not protected by the first amendment. Just a few of them include but are not limited to child pornography, obscenity, true threats, and fraud. When using your right to freedom of speech, press, and religion "applies only to restrictions imposed by the government".  Today, people utilize their rights given to them by the first amendment through social media, during protests, and face-to-face in person. Over the past many years, there have been several controversial scenarios dealing with the first amendment rights not being prac...

With social media becoming more and more prevalent, the issue of people posting their thoughts and opinions and it is becoming more and more popular. For example, one person can tweet their opinion. Whether it be about politics or sports, or anything. If someone sees the tweet and disagrees with it, oftentimes they will tweet back or respond to the tweet with their own opinion which can trigger an intense back and forth battle. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy, who is now retired made a statement saying that "social media is among the "most important places...for the exchange of views". What he means by this, is that people are far more likely to share their opinions now via social media than any other platform.  The Packingham vs North Carolina case in 2017 was a prime example of how social media and the internet are the "biggest battlegrounds for free expression both nationally and globally".   The government has already tried to censor the free...