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After watching the video on the 1964 World’s Fair in New York, and seeing the world display “Futurama,” I immediately was intrigued. I personally love looking back on past generations to figure out how they perceived the future of our society to turn out. In the video, we can see that the “Futurama” display incorporates all sorts of innovative technology, ranging from aerospace technology, to oceanic technology. We then come across architectural brilliance in the video as the passenger’s gaze upon the underwater lost world of Atlantis which contains a futuristic building, and radiant wonders in the vast world of the sea. For me, it seems as if each generation has a hope for new innovative technology to be produced. This technology usually includes things that the specific generation fantasizes about. For example, when I was a kid growing up, my friends and I all thought that flying cars would exist by 2020!  We set our eyes on the technology that can redefine the world as we know it,
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How Coronavirus has impacted social media engagements

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During this unfortunate event we are facing globally, I wanted to find out how the Coronavirus has impacted social media consumption since the start of this nasty pandemic. As you can already imagine, millions upon millions of people are in isolation following the Coronavirus safety protocol. With millions of people in their homes every day, I wanted to see if the numbers in social media increased or decreased depending on the specific platform.  I started off with looking into Instagram engagements since the beginning of March. Instagram engagements were decreased dramatically following the first two weeks of the pandemic. Interesting enough, Alcohol brands saw a spike in engagements due to people drinking in their homes. Food and beverage companies experienced a slight engagement and are returning to normal. Influencers engagements, however, are declining at a rapid rate. With no significant signs of improvement, this is the lowest we have seen Instagram influencers engagement
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EOTO PT1.

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While examining the terms and concepts on Blackboard I had one term pop out to me almost instantly and that term was Whistleblower. A whistleblower is a person who informs on a person or organization engaged in an illicit activity. A Whistleblower can be good or bad depending on the information being leaked to the general public. Whistleblowers can benefit the general public in many different ways! For examples, whistleblowing benefits include workplace safety, good corporate culture, and it serves as a precaution for Workplace bullying/harassment. However, whistleblowers can also have a negative effect or impact on the general public. Some negatives that can result from whistleblowing are harm, individual harm, public trust damage, and a threat of national security.  Whistleblowers have been known for pointing out unethical or even illegal activity a person or an organization commits. Not all whistleblowers become famous from exposing their target, but whistleblowers do keep com
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Privacy, Online & Off

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Ted Talks on Privacy online and offline  After watching these various TED Talks, I started to realize how scary technology can truly be, especially in our society today. In the first video, Catherine Crump explains how police and surveillance technology for our local police departments may be giving away sensitive information. NSA styled mass surveillance is allowing our local departments to gather vast quantitates of information about us, that was never possible in such way before. Even our motor vehicles can keep track of our locations. One of the key technologies driving mass location tracking is the automatic license plate reader. Automatic license plate readers take a picture of every single license plate and keeps it on record, even if you’re not doing anything wrong. Local police then keep a record of the different times your license plate has been captured by their system.  Christopher Soghoian is our second guest who explains the dangers of telephone surveillance.  The tel
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W13: Audit your online profile

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When it comes to my digital footprint, I would say I have a decent one. Although I do not have my own personal website, I still interact on various social media applications and platforms across the web. Some social media platforms that I am currently on are Instagram, Snapchat, LinkedIn, and GroupMe. On my Instagram I primarily put up photos of my friends and I, pictures from traveling or pictures that I enjoy in general. On snapchat I primarily use it as another way to contact friends other than calling or text messaging them. Snapchat for me is a platform to stay in touch with friends in different time zones. Platforms such as LinkedIn could be extremely vital for job hunting after graduating college, so I try to keep my profile visually appealing and professional as possible. GroupMe is another great platform when it comes to communicating with others. If you have a large group of people, GroupMe is perfect for you. GroupMe allows messaging among created groups, and you can put a
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W11: Eight Values of Free Expression

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Eight values of Free expression  I had a tough time when it came to picking out one Free Expression that I may value over another. When it came to me narrowing down my decision, I decided to go with the Marketplace of Ideas (aka Discovery of Truth.)    T his value was first suggested by Milton, who first said that when truth and falsehood are allowed to freely grapple, truth will win out. And the grappling makes the truth even stronger. His argument against requiring a license to print/publish. I am in love with every single component of this Free Expression value. This value in more simple terms is explaining how the truth and lies about a situation are to remain free, up in the air, and that the truth will always win out. This speaks high volumes to me because I’ve always lived by a quote similar to this one with the result being the truth always wins. I personally think there’s a time and place for lying, and not necessarily that its bad thing overall, but lying there to make
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W7 EOTO: Someone else's Tech.

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W7 EOTO: Blogging on classmates technology. A really interesting technology that really surprised me was Paul's Presentation on the carrier pigeon. We were assigned into the same group for the project but I was still in love with his overall topic. Personally, I find it so intriguing that we were able to use pigeons to carry messages for us. The way that humans were able to cage these birds, tie a message to them, and have them carry out that message is incredible. Another remarkable thing about these carrier pigeons is that they led to war-time communication. These pigeons went on to be used as communication devices in the war. Pigeons were even drafted into the military just like men are. Carrier pigeons helped communicate where enemy outposts were during WWII. Even the outcomes of the Olympic Games were sent to Athens by carrier pigeons! We then run into the limitations and downfalls that a carrier pigeon possess. Carrier pigeons are animals and therefore they will be hunte
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