Media Law & Literacy

Invention of the Television. There were three men who contributes to inventing the first television. Philo Farnsworth, Charles Francis Jenkins, John Logie Baird. Farnsworth was the one who was able to create the first television signal, while Jenkins and Baird were the engineers behind it. June of  1927 the first broadcast was aired. However, Televisions were not sold to the public until 10 years later. Now, television controls are lives, we schedule our days around getting home to watch the new episode of our favorite show, we buy products from the show etc. There are positives and negatives to this though. We're able to bond with others based on same show preferences, we learn from documentaries or other informational shows or movies. However, we're addicted to these shows, we spend hours and hours watching and it can make us antisocial. Crime and sex becomes normalized since we see it so often now. Studies found out that before a child reaches their 18th birthday they wi...

The Systems Are Failing In this video we follow a little boy surrounded by adults on their phone. We see how angry people can get, how fake, how depressed etc. The little boy wants attention from people and tries to pull them off their phones constantly. Theres a birds eye view shot of thousands of people on their knees worshipping something ahead and then we see it's depicted to be Kim Kardashian. Young girls worship this women, someone who is completely fake in more ways than one and view her like a god. The scene that is the most eye opening starts with a video of a girl dancing posted all over the internet. The title stating how she was a bad dancer, then cut to her standing on the ledge of a building. Below her, countless people recording it all on their phones and then follow her fall all the way to the ground right in front of them.Immediately, they all move on and walk away and the boy is left standing there with a tear in his eye. This stands out the most because insta...

The_Donald Reddit is a social media app mainly used for posing news or memes and starting discussions. There are countless "Subreddits" for all different types of interests. Almost every Tv show has a subreddit where fans can discuss episodes, or ones that post funny videos of animals, ones that post funny videos of kids, the pages are endless. However, there is a subreddit called " The_Donald" (The largest Pro-trump online community)which has been credited in getting Donald Trump to the White House has now been banned for content leading up to 2020. After a liberal news monitor published an article highlighting posts written by members in The_Donald, Reddit put a ban on the subreddit for repeated "rule-breaking" behavior. This is however not an outright ban, it only means Reddit requires an "opt-in" to view content that could be " highly offensive and upsetting." While the moderators which control the subreddit have worked to relea...