Media Law & Lit

EOTO pt 2 During this week’s class, each group had to present their Power Point of terms we received. In number order we all got up to explain each term for the class.Each member of a group had one term to research.  Group 2 presented the five terms Illusory Truth Effect, Confirmation Bias, Gatekeeping, Agenda Setting, and Overton Window. As they summarized their research results we learned an overview of each term. Illusory Truth Effect is when something is said and repeated often enough people start to believe it's true. This leads people to mix up the true and false information. Confirmation Bias is when you look for information that confirms your beliefs. You believe what you want, only trusting in the evidence that supports your view and by throwing out anything that does not. Gatekeeping is when the media chooses what information they want to broadcast. This filters our view by not letting us know everything. Agenda Setting is when the media filter and shape reality ...

Online Presence  Link to source for picture Week 14 Blog Being born with such a unique name has made it very easy to find myself online. I have Googled my name many times over the years but up until last year most the results were directly about my life. Now with the fame of the singer Billie Eilish some results of her show up as well. The first results when G oogling “Eilish Armitage” is my Instagram account which is on private, F acebook post about me from the HPU club swim team,and then many swim meet results from my years of competitive swimming. From these sites you can find out more details about my life than I had hoped was not possible. On Facebook it says where I am from and a profile picture of me. Through the HPU club swim team post it tells e veryone where I go to school, my major, and my extracurricular activities. If you search further than the first few results you will find a website that has my address and list of my family membe...

Total Information Awareness Week 13 Blog Total Information Awareness also known as Terrorism Information Awareness, was a mass surveillance program created in January 2003. It was managed by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ). It consisted of a massive counter-terrorism database with advanced methods for data collection, processing and analysis. The way it worked to gather information caught the attention of privacy rights organisations. This included American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) who was concerned about it gathering personal information. Congressional Negotiators decided to end the program in September 2003. Though it is of extreme importance to protect the country from terrorism but as citizens some feel their rights to privacy are violated from these programs. As a country, we must weigh the importance of both sides, see the good and bad of both. No one wants to have a terrorist attack, but will they be willing to give up their priva...