Blog Post Privacy

 In the first Ted Talk, the man is speaking about electronic tattoos.  What he means when speaking is that with the way technology works today people are tweeting, blogging, vloging, and posting on social media; which causes their electronic tattoos.  Even though they are not permanently on your body, they are following you everyday and every time someone posts on social media.  It can affect someone’s career path, someone’s opportunity for getting into college, or someone’s opportunity for getting a job.  These people are watching your every move.  Your GPS, your credit score, they can track you, etc.  For people nowadays it is getting really hard to escape their past.  They can be exposed online for stuff they said 10+ years ago, even if they had changed as a person and we’re young and stupid.  Everything someone says on social media will then follow them for the rest of their life.  

In the second video, the woman is talking about how surveillance equipment is becoming so evolved.  It is gathering local police departments to have surveillance equipment that can obtain vast information on each and every one of us if they have to, which was never previously possible.  With this new surveillance technology; if a person is driving their car around the United States it can reveal if they see a therapist, or go to an AA meeting.  Basically whatever the police departments want to see on people they are watching.  These issues can affect many different sorts of people because their private lives are being exposed to people who work in the police department that they don’t even know.  For example, if I was driving to see my therapist one day the police could see that, and if they had something they needed to ask me about they could see where I am and meet me there.  A lot of places for people in the United States, depending on what they consider and “safe space” is a safe space for people.  Nothing should be able to break their “safe space” even if it is the police.  What we can do to protect ourselves from invasions of privacy like this, is to try and put a stop to all of this new forms of technology being used on day to to day people, and try and catch some of our country's biggest criminals, or people committing such heinous crimes in our country like; human trafficking, murder, nuclear weapons, etc.  

Blog Post Age of AI

 Artificial Intelligence is something that has been progressing and evolving all around the world, especially now.  In the Age of AI China is taking on the United States.  In this they are racing to take control of a certain technology that could potentially change everything.  The way people work, play, how democracy functions, and how potentially the world could be realigned.  In this documentary it shows exploration in ways of how our world is being reshaped by technology, and artificial intelligence.  This development in the documentary is compared to the Industrial Revolution.  Started in 1760 ended in 1830.  It is an event for human history with technology evolving and will keep evolving the way it is.  The Age of AI follows China, and one of their servers, and brings an insider view on the start up of competitive culture of artificial intelligence.  In this film they show the power that Al has, and calls it a “break through” technology.  By using the power Al has, scientists unleashed a new power into our world as a whole.  Artificial Intelligence is something that the world has been wanting to use for so long, and now that China has the equipment they are ready to take on any country with it.

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 Blog Post EOTO #2 

Media consolidation is the concentration of media ownership is a process whereby progressively fewer individuals or organizations control increasing shares of mass media.  “Media consolidation implications are that it leads to less local staffing, less local news gatherings, and less interaction with local communities, which hinders democracy.”  There are good, and bad parts to media consolidation more bad then good.  The advantages to media consolidation is that you are paying less than cable TV for more channels you can stream, and that there are more channels for bundles that you can buy.  

   

There are many disadvantages to media consolidation.  In 1983 90% of American media was owned by 50 companies.  Looking back to 2022 there are only six companies who own 90% of the media.  This is a major concern within the media because since 90% of the media is owned by big business corporations this means whatever these corporations want to get out there they can.  This can affect society as a whole because since there are not a lot of competing perspectives in the media means there can be illusions created for viewers because the media is only putting out what their owners want people to hear.  

 

Media Consolidation can affect many groups of minorities because of the way the press is being released.  Media consolidation in other words, is tearing our country apart instead of bringing us together as a whole.  The media has a lot to do with politics today, and social movements.   As media has been evolving, and only 6 different companies own the media, they can control what gets released, and what doesn’t.  This means that if someone at a company owned by the media doesn’t want a story getting out then it doesn’t have to.  This can hurt minority groups because of the separation between Fox News vs. CNN.  Fox News is known for their conservative side, and putting out stories about minority groups in our country that make them not look good.  As with CNN they put out stories that make the conservative side look bad.  

Overall as a whole, media consolidation is good for our society especially with media, and technology evolving throughout the world.  It is putting our country into the hands of the high up people that own these media companies to allow what is out in our media, and what is not.  Which can be very damaging for our country.  

   

https://billmoyers.com/story/media-consolidation-should-anyone-care/

Final Blog Post

Final Blog Post 

The media's role in my life is impeccable compared to how people ten-plus years older than me were growing up. I got my first iPod touch when I was ten years old, and ever since that day; the media has played a profound role in my life. Growing up, my older sister and I used our iPod touches to make video stars, post on Instagram, make movies, and play games together, all on our iPod touch. The second I got that iPod touch, it immediately changed my life. It was terrible because my parents would still take our iPod touch away to make us go outside, play in the basement, or swim in the pool. But, it's the initial reaction the kids ( like myself ) have when their parents decide to take whatever device they have away. They either freak out and start crying or throw hysterical temper tantrums to try and receive their device back.  

My digital footprint would include the following:

• My text messages.

• My safari search history on my phone.

• Photos and videos.

• Tagged photos on social media.

• My likes on Facebook and Twitter.

Everything I just stated is a part of my digital footprint, and there is definitely more, so I am pretty exposed online. If someone has access to my text messages and reveals something I have said to my friends or family, I could ruin my life and never have the same opportunities I would've had. If someone had all of my photos and videos, I would probably get in so much trouble with my parents. My browsing history on safari is usually just clothes and shoe shopping. Anyone who wants to know what clothes I want can buy them. My family and friends post many photos of me on social media in my tagged pictures; I either 1. Hate how I look in them and don't want them in my tagged pictures, or 2. My parents posted something that I do not want people to see me tagged. It's not an inconvenience for anyone, really, except for me in my brain.  

In the day of age I grew up in, I figured out what editing photos were at a very young age. Cyberbullying was at an all-time high when I was at the peak of using social media. People would comment or talk about other people's social media posts, saying things like, "don't you think she gained weight?" Or, "wow, she needs to wear some makeup." No one seemed to care what they were saying about people, no matter how hurt someone's feelings were. One day, I overheard my older sister and her friends talking about how to edit pictures to post on Instagram. Whether it was your face blurring out your acne or your body to make yourself look skinnier, there is even an option to smooth out your complexion, change the colors of your eyes, and make your teeth whiter. When I heard my sister and her friends talking about it, I wanted to try editing. I took a picture of myself, found the app, and started editing. When I finished editing the photo, I knew it looked fake, but I posted it anyway. The number of comments I got on my post and the number of people talking about my position at school was an insane amount. Everyone was talking about how fake my picture was. I went home from school that day and cried to my mom; that was when I knew social media had gotten the best of me.  

The Wonders of Technology Video shows a world with technology. A world in which technology conquers everything. This video reveals a world in which technology is highlighted in a positive light and not a negative one. A world where there is the only technology that isn't hostile towards people and not bringing people down. A world in which technology is probably the best experience that has happened to people. The video was shot, and the ride was created in 1964—a time when technology was not even around like it is today. Speaking from personal experience, technology today is perceived as good and evil. The bad outweighs the good in most situations, but there are perks and bonuses to technology today. Not like it is seen in the video and not how people perceive technology today. But, it is nice to think that someday eventually, the world could be a better place with a positive light shed upon technology. 

Looking at the other video of the "Mad World" music video remix, the video shows many people when the technology first became popular and is still relevant to this day. The video shows people glued to their devices walking around in the street. The little boy keeps running into people, and people get outraged and scared of him. At one point in the video, the boy is sitting on the ground, crying while people just walk around on their devices. 

Diffusion Theory

 Blog Post #5 

Twitter was created in 2006, by Evan Williams.  People began using Twitter as a way to communicate and share information with their families, and close friends on a social media application.  When Twitter was first invented it had many private investors banking on Twitter’s success. Many people became early adapters to the start of Twitter because at first it was going to be a podcasting platform which captured a lot of investors attention. Twitter would be the first application to do this.  However, just before the launch of Twitter as a podcasting platform,  Apple created their podcast application. Soom after Apple created their podcasting application, Twitter changed course in order to maintain uniqueness and relevance in the marketplace. When Twitter was released it quickly became a way for people to communicate and share ideas with other Twitter users and their followers. 

Twitter immediately captured the attention of the millennials. Millennials saw Twitter as a fresh new social media app for them to use and communicate with their peers. People who were late adopters to Twitter were people who did not know if Twitter was just another form of communication with followers, or something bigger.  People also just didn’t like the sound of social media at the time because it was still fresh and new for some people.  It was the older generations who did not know a lot about social media, or seem to care for social media, so they didn’t see the need to join Twitter, initially.  People who were not adopters at all were the older generations who just wanted nothing to do with social media, and didn’t care to communicate with people other than via telephones, or email.  

The downsides to having a Twitter account is that it is a social media platform. There are definitely some security concerns within twitter.  What I mean by that is that social media companies aren’t asking for a monthly subscription to use their app, but instead they are selling your personal information that you have used to create an account to third party users.  There is a famous saying that states “Whatever you put on social media will never be gone even if you delete it.”  Which is true in a sense.  If someone posts something discriminatory on social media, but deletes it right away; someone could potentially screenshot it in the time it was up, and it can ruin your life.  I think not having social media has its positive and negative benefits.  

The negative benefits are having less forms of communication with people, and being kept up to date on the latest real time news. The positive benefits you have from not being on social media is that you don’t have to worry about getting your personal information stolen by third party users, and you don’t have to worry about what you would post, and if people would like it or not. People’s lives have been ruined due to social media posts and people can dig up anything from the past, even if it means they are a different person from who they were ten plus years ago.  

https://www.businessinsider.com/how-twitter-was-founded-2011-4

EOTO Project Watch

 Blog Post #6 

    Technology I learned from someone else was the postal service.  When learning about the postal service I did not realize how long the postal service has been around for, which put me in a little bit of a surprise.  I found it interesting how China was the first creator of the postal service, and then spread to the Middle East, and then Europe, and then finally hit the United States later on.  I find it interesting how the postal service has adapted throughout the centuries of it being around.  How it first started with birds, and horses, and people walking by foot to deliver mail.  How it is now vs how it was back then there is a significant difference.  How the postal service has affected, and it such a big part of the economy interested me.

EOTO Com Tech Timeline Blog

Blog Post #4

   Ray Tomlinson was a computer programmer who invented the first email in 1971.  Tomlinson used the ARPANET system to create the first email which at the time was the precursor to the internet. ARPANET was the first system that was able to send mail to other users on different hosts of the ARPANET.  The development of the @ sign, which was the code needed to separate the names of the users and the users machine, was the key to the first email being invented and is the reason that email was successfully invented.  The problem that Ray Tomlinson was trying to solve with the invention of email was to provide an alternative and more efficient mode of communication for people.

    The circumstances behind creating the first email were such that users on the internet could share files, and messages on a central log in disk, logging in from remote terminals. In the decades leading up to the invention of email, Tomlinson observed that people were no longer just sitting at desks and working from 9 to 5 each day. His observations led him to recognize that an alternative mode of communication would benefit employers and workers and would ultimately create a more flexible and more efficient work environment.  By creating email, people could have a different form of communication if they did not have enough time to talk on the phone.

Tomlinson greatly increased the usefulness of computers to such a new level that computers quickly became accessible to the general public. In addition, the invention of email has changed our world by creating a new form of communication for people around the world while simultaneously increasing the use of computers. As the world has progressed since the first email, email has also gone through a significant transformation as well. Email has become the preferred mode of communication for corporations, industries, governments, as well as most private and personal entities.  Email is now how families and friends alike, stay in touch. Email has now become a primary way for people to send invitations for parties, documents for work, provide status updates, or just saying a quick hello to someone they haven’t talked to in a while. 

Creating email changed the world because it “drastically” reduced traditional mail while also increasing the flow of information. An example of this is how people began receiving electronic bills. Bills used to be delivered through our postal service. When email was created, corporations and other entities started using email to send people or customers bills. This is much more efficient than waiting for the postal service to deliver your bills and then to retrieve and deliver bills via traditional mail. It greatly reduced the number of lost bills and lost payments.  

Email has drastically changed the way in which people communicate. We no longer pick up the phone to communicate but instead we communicate electronically via email.  After the first email came out all different forms of electronic communication were developed. However, as it is with all new inventions, problems develop.  The largest complaint people have with email is what is called spam mail. Spam mail is unsolicited email which is typically advertisements but it can also be harmful to people.  Some spam can confuse people into spending or sending money and it generally can cloud worthy information from being seen.  

Another negative effect of email is the issue of personal privacy.  Over the years, certain email providers have taken the private/personal information of its users and sold it to data gatherers without the permission of the users.  Also, all emails are archived so what people may think is “private communication” can also be available for people who breach personal privacy, or hack into a person’s email. 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/mar/07/email-ray-tomlinson-history 

http://www.nethistory.info/History%20of%20the%20Internet/email.html

http://students.cs.uri.edu/~forensics/courses/CSC101/innovation_example/impacts.html