Unbought, Unbossed, Untethered

The question of the day is “Do we need a non-profit public social media platform to clean up the social media environment?”  A social media PBS? I’d say, yes, it’s worth a try.  All social platforms have become toxic of late, so I would appreciate a new social platform that offers a safe space for…

My professor asked us to watch Season 5, Episode 2 "Smithereen" of the series "Black Mirror" on Netflicks this week, since we've been studying digital communications. I was excited to watch it because he was so intrigued by the issues that the episode brought to light. And I agree, it was a wild ride! Here's…

Jordan Peele and Buzzfeed recently created a video of former President Barack Obama saying words that came from Peele to illustrate the danger of deepfakes.  The President, to the untrained eye, said things like “Ben Carson is in the sunken place” and “President Trump is a total and complete dips---” in his typical voice and…

Big data is defined by dictionary.com as “extremely large data sets that may be analyzed computationally to reveal patterns, trends, and associations, especially related to human behavior and interactions.”  If any brand does this well, Nike does.   With multiple product lines in almost 200 countries, Nike thinks deeply about its worldwide customers and the best…

The “Splinternet” is the concept of a future in which the internet is fragmented, governed by separate regulations and run by different services.  It has been suggested that Chinese and American apps and services would each dominate half of the internet – the Chinese apps and services being utilized in countries such as India, Southeast…

I'm from New York City, but my adopted state is sunny Georgia, where my grandmother was born. A sharecropper's daughter, she grew up on a farm in Schley County, where she received a fifth grade education. Education for the children of rural families in my grandmother's day were limited and often felt to be unnecessary.…

“Facebook for the Enterprise” is the way that the social networking service Yammer is described.  And it is literally that.  Similar to Facebook, Yammer offers a profile page where users can connect with others to share information, reply to posts and set up contacts, with other staff members.  Yammer, launched in 2008 by former Pay…

The Semantic Web or Web 3.0 will be the next generation of the world wide web. It allows data to be accessed more easily by humans and machines because search is not tied to web pages but the data itself. This means that the latest data will be more easily found because it's machine readable,…

Media literacy, or the ability to access, critically evaluate and act on media messages, is critical in today's society. However, many Americans today cannot identify when the information they consume is real or fabricated. When there is no ability to accurately benchmark the facts of the day, it is difficult for citizens to act or…

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