Global Media in a Digital Age

For my multi-media project, I used TikTok and my podcast to cover baseball.  We had to use at least two different forms of media to cover a topic or tell a story, so I felt that revitalizing my podcast, One Chief and a Guy , was an obvious pick for one of the forms of media.  Also, I have experience with posting on TikTok and just using the app, so I figured doing something with TikTok would be a good choice as well.  I chose baseball as my topic because it is pretty much what I'm most passionate about in life, and I have extensive knowledge in that subject, so coming up with content wouldn't be too much of a difficulty for me.  Also, my co-host of One Chief and a Guy is also a teammate of mine on the North Central baseball team, so baseball would be something he could talk about on the podcast as well. My teammate and I were excited that we had an excuse to record some podcast episodes so we recorded an episode at the first opportunity available.  We reserved o...

 I think I speak for pretty much anyone when I say I'm ready for this COVID stuff to be over with.  I'm tired of masks, I'm tired of not being able to go everywhere I would want, I'm tired of hearing about vaccines and politics.  People can go on about how much negative COVID has brought to the world.  Too many people died from the virus.  However, I think the lockdown helped shape me into who I am today.  It was months of sitting around by myself (if you don't count my parents and brother) so I pretty much had every part of me vulnerable to outside influence.  While some of it sucked, I was able to extract some good things out of this period of time.  I learned a lot about myself and my relationships with other people. The main thing I learned is that my introverted mindset is not worth it.  Remote learning was a disaster in my opinion.  Being completely honest, most lectures went in one ear and out the other when listening to them in b...

We are living in the middle of the rise of social media.  As a result, misinformation and disinformation are spreading much quicker than before.  Everyday citizens each have their own digital footprint; each citizen that has access to social media has an influence on the content that circulates through the social media platforms.  Many people enjoy clutching their pearls when it comes to their first amendment rights.  As we all know, the first amendment grants US citizens the right to pretty much say whatever they want AS LONG AS their speech isn't a threat to the safety of the American people. An issue that I keep bringing up in my assignments, my blogs, and my participation in class is that truth is a relative term.  Truth can mean one thing to someone and a completely different thing to another.  People have their biases that dictate what they see as the truth.  This is dangerous because, tying this back to our digital footprints, social media users...

I was late to the social media game thanks to my parents.  I never really had any fancy social media related technology when I was young (pre-teen).  Smart phones, tablets, iPod touches, and other early technologies were around when I was in 4th and 5th grade.  As much as it was kind of a downer to not have a phone at that age, it was probably a good thing I didn't have my head in a screen that early on.  Yeah you look like a dork to your friends, but nobody knows their best interest at that age. In the Netflix Documentary, The Social Dilemma , we hear about the addictive nature of social media and the things our smart phones and other technology do for us.  Almost everyone has a phone in their pocket that takes their attention away from the physical world in front of them.  Phones were originally just for communication with other people; more specifically, verbally speaking to one another.  Later, texting was added to allow for quicker and more conven...