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  1. Nov 2015
    1. As the years go on, kids using social media are becoming younger and younger also, less and less private. They are oblivious to what gets put on the internet not realizing the consequences. and becoming obsessed to always be fitting in , always keeping up wit the latest drama.

  2. Oct 2015
    1. Prior to the internet, when we talked about media, we were talking about two different things: broadcast media and communi­cations media. Broadcast media, such as radio and television but also newspapers and movies (the term refers to a mes­sage being broadly delivered from a central place, whatever the medium)

      The media has rapidly grown over the years expanding social networks. It became easier to use to share photos, posts, or blogs.

    1. journalists arerit journalists unless they work for publishers, and publishers arerit publishers unless they own the means of production. This definition has worked for decades, because the ties among journalists, publishers, and the means of production were strong. So long as publishing was expensive, publishers would be rare. So long as publishers were rare, it would be easy to list them and thus to identifY journalists as their employees.

      In the past journalist would be the ones to control what get published or not. Nowadays anyone can post anything anywhere and get more viewers whether it is useless or important.

    2. If everyone can do something, it is no longer rare enough to pay for, even if it is vital.

      I think that the digital media is becoming over powering and controlling. Newspapers as we know it may complete become to an end in the future.

    1. More egregious violations can lead to an account being deleted entirely or, in more extreme cases, an unpleasant visit from the police, popularly known as hecha, or drinking tea.

      "Drinking tea" also was created as a very popular meme for kermit the frog, with the phrase "but thats none of my business" to be interpreted as something bad or strange that has happened. It became viral all over twitter, facebook, instagram etc.

    2. meme culture has provided an outlet for new forms of public conversation and community buildin

      Memes formed their own separate topic on the internet which now are being created by everyones personal experiences.

    3. In certain cases, internet memes like the grass mud horse menagerie have become a vehicle for evading censorship in an environment where both offline and online outlets for social and political expression are extremely limited.

      Memes became a lot more popular then they used to be. They have expanded where they are being posted. Not only can you see them on social media but they are also outside the computer screen.

    1. examples that are likely to appeal to the audience because of their familiarity.

      All of the memes that I see on the internet that are on twitter, instagram, facebook all have the same memes floating around on them because the memes are ever catchy and entertaining to view.

    2. They must have copying fidelity, variability, and longevity in order to be successful (Dawkins, 2006). Copying fidelity means that memes must be as close to the original as possible in order to be successful (and here, success equates to replication).

      Anyone can just take the memes original picture and put whatever they want on it. But in order for it to become successful or popular you need to write something on it that is relevant to the picture. Also needing to catch the users attention.

    1. Now whatever I look up first is what I'm going to see most and where I am will determine what I even see on the internet. Now I will be questioning if what I looked up was really what I was looking for since I do not have control over it.

    1. The author is saying that the internet has already drastically changed from what it is today to what it was years ago and at this rate the future the internet will also change a lot. They are saying that the internet will turn more into a television and you will be less active when you are on it.

  3. Sep 2015
    1. The power of social media helped "organize without an organization." The technology that we have nowadays, we have the capability to help create posts to go from local to global in short amount of time by liking, sharing, retweeting or reposting to get attention of readers and awareness.

    1. Today, it is easier to be connected with bigger groups of people. But the bigger the group gets the more complex it is. For example, my facebook group chat for my senior prom bus- the more people who got added in the more difficult it became to agree with on the same thing. It is also easier to get posts to go viral and for anyone to read/see by using tags, hashtags and locations