Media Law & Literacy 2020

Until this assignment, I had truly not thought about emoticons as anything other way than the little yellow faces smiling and laughing on my keyboard. When you really think about it, emoticons to are actually apart of the way that we communicate in everyday life. Whether it be to share our emotions, express our likes and dislikes, or simply use it as a quick way to response, they work. If you are not familiar with using emoticons, they are a digital image/sticker that is used to show a feeling or thought.  The world in which we live todays has used and continues to use emoticons in their benefit. Emojis are able to convey likes and dislikes, emotions, interests, etc. In young adults, emojis are often time inserted into conversation when it is coming to an end or to show interest in the other individual. How can they do all this? There are around 2,666 emojis that are sent around and used today. They are used in conversation, in captions of social media posts, and they are used t...

With the rise in popularity of social media platforms and the internet, comes paying the price of your personal information being more vulnerable to intruders. For instance, as of 2020 Instagram has officially reached 1 billion monthly active users and more than 500 million of those people utilize the platform everyday. (Mohsin 2019)  Social media is typically thought about as a way for users to engage and share moments from their personal life. If you have social media, you probably try to keep that separate from your professional life. There is no need for you and your boss to be friends on Snapchat or Instagram. Shockingly, in a recent article released by NBC News, an ex-Amazon manager was found to be looking up job applicants names on social media, so she could determine their gender and race.  In further investigation, the ex-Amazon manager is arguing that they were told to do so.  Whether it be the previously employed Amazon manager or an individual higher up...

After viewing the class video on the Supreme Court, I was able to gain an understanding of the ways in which our judicial system runs and operates in the United States. I now can appreciate the basics of our judicial system and recognize the particular way that justices must go about doing their jobs.  A portion of the video that caught my attention was several Chief Justices and law professor A.E. Dick Howard, discussing the way that the Constitution of the United States is neither a clear advantage nor a disadvantage to them when making decisions within the court. Justice Anthony M. Kennedy describes the idea as having an advantage that past justices did not. "We have 200 years of history, of detachment, in which we can see the folly of some ideas, the wisdom of others. So, the fact that we're interpreting a document that is 200 years old is not just a disadvantage. In a way, also an advantage". I agree with Justice Kennedy, because we can use previous ...