Citizen Journalism

Citizen Journalism 

Citizen journalism is becoming more and more popular these days. Also know as "Street" journalism, it is  collection of citizens collecting news and sharing information to one another. You most likely see citizen journalism every day but don't even realize it. It can be as simple as someone putting something they say at school today on there snapchat story. In some cases, it can be used to ensure that the bigger news companies are doing a good job at being factual. Some of these street journalists have reached such a big audience due to their popularity that there are able to effectively spread the word around of whatever news. 

Citizen journalism is one of the best ways to exercise your Freedom of Speech. It is frequently used for protests and political movements that don't have the "big news" companies to support it. It is also changing the way that the world runs. For instance, as a Firefighter, I know that whenever I show up to a call,  I am most likely being recorded so immediately I need to censor my language. The down side to this is that is an already stressful job so being filmed just makes it a bit more stressful.

https://www.techopedia.com/definition/2386/citizen-journalism

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/jun/11/rise-of-citizen-journalism

Media Security

  The Importance of Social Media Safety 


Similar to the article we just read in class today, I too was not allowed to have social media until the age of 13. I also did not get a phone until the age of 12. Most of my friends had these electronics and social media platforms by the 6th grade and that made me really eager to want to get them.

I remember on came called "FarmVille" that my older brother used to play on facebook everyday and it made me want facebook so badly. Then the day Finally came that I was able to get social media and the first thing I did was make a facebook. Before I was allowed to do anything on it however, my parents made sure that the privacy settings were in order. Then everyone started to get Instagram and it was a race to see who could get more followers. Many of my friends made their account public so that they could get more followers at a faster pace.

It is always important to make sure that your settings on social media are private that way it ensures your safety is at its full potential on that platform.  Personally I am luck to never have been a victim of harassment on social media but I do know of people who have been and its not something that you want to experience. This is why I encourage everyone to make sure that they have their settings on private so that not just everyone can look you up and find out personal information about you.

Amazon

 Amazon is without a doubt one of the most popular companies in todays age. I vaguely remember as a kid when it first came out and was just an online bookstore. However it caught on fairly quickly, at least for me I new about it early because my father was an early adopter of Amazon due to his love for reading. In my eyes by around 2012 the majority of people were hooked on amazon because it was now an epicenter for almost anything you could think for.  Within reason Amazon almost has everything on their website. Laggers to amazon make no sense to me because it's just inefficient to not use the very time effective website. Now Jeff Bezos (CEO of Amazon) was at one point the richest man in the world. Due to a recent divorce he no longer holds that title. Amazons value changes all the time with the fluctuation of the market, but it has hit the trillion dollar mark mid last year.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/04/technology/amazon-stock-price-1-trillion-value.html

Individual Self-Fulfillment

           Freedom of speech is undeniably one of the most important things in the US Constitution. It's something that we brag about and pride on for being a free country that freely speak about whatever they want to. Without freedom of speech then we would be violating the "Near" rule (Prior restraint). Having citizens of the US be able to speak out about what they want to, even if its anti government, is very healthy for this country. It lets people release what they want to say; rather than be censored and feel like your trapped in a country that doesn't let you speak your mind. The Self Fulfillment theory explains that it is a man or womans capacity to think, wonder, and imagine. "Speech is protected not as a means of a collective good but because of that value of speech conduct to the individual." (Professor C, Edwin Baker) This quote is essentially explaining that it is a persons natural habit to think, wonder and imagine and if they aren't able to speak about it freely then theres no point to thinking freely.



http://uscivilliberties.org/themes/4465-self-fulfillment-theory-of-free-speech.html

Raising Tensions between Pakistan and India

             

 The past few months the tension between Pakistan and India have been getting out of control. Almost to the point to where it should concern all of us. Recently Pakistan sent a suicide bomber into India and killed 40 of their troops, India responded by airstrikes followed by Pakistan shooting down two of their fighter jets and capturing on pilot. There are now threatening each other with nuclear power. While you might think we are out of harms way if they launch nukes at each-other, we aren't. Because if they launch nukes, it would be a environmental and humanitarian catastrophe to this planet.

LINK: https://www.wearethemighty.com/news/nuclear-war-india-pakistan-famine

Pulling troops out of Afghanistan

1,000 TROOPS TO LEAVE AFGHANISTAN

       I recently read an article on We Are The Mighty, one of the news sites highlighted in one of my previous pieces, it stated that we are pulling more troops out of Afghanistan. I was happy to read this article as I think it is time we start to give the ANA (Afghanistan National Army) more control as we have trained them up for many years. The article also mentioned that we are attempting to negotiate with the Taliban with officials in Kabul so I am interested to see where that goes. Trump intends to pull roughly 1,000 troops under the efficiency drive.

Link to article: https://www.wearethemighty.com/news/us-expects-withdraw-troops-afghanistan?rebelltitem=2#rebelltitem2 

Door Dash

Door Dash is such a convenient app and is definitely in my top three favorite pieces of technology to use. DoorDash is an app where you can select a restaurant thats listed on the app and then order food from there and have it delivered to you. The benefit of this app is that it will create a delivery option for most places that never deliver. The benefits of door dash are endless, I typically use it because i have minimal time to go eat on campus so I am able to order food on door-dash and have it come at a set time to ensure that i will have time to eat my food and then be able to move on to my next project that day.