Recently, we have been seeing many videos being posted on different social media, promoting the awareness and donation for ALS. As expected, negative comments bashing on this campaign started to emerge. Why do people post their ALS ice bucket challenge…
Media Censorship in China
Since we talked about free speech in class, I thought it would be interesting to bring up media censorship in China. China, technically a communist country, has always enforced policy that restricts the freedom of speech on all media outlet. Everything that…
The YouTube Effect
YouTube is a video sharing website that allows anyone to upload any kinds of videos to share with a wide range of audience all around the world. Anyone that signs up for an YouTube account can easily have access to…
The Untold Stories
Cable news are thought to provide all sides of the story in an objective view when reporting news events, however, news report on the shooting incident in Ferguson started a controversy on whether the news cover every aspect of what happened.…
What Has Social Media Done to Us?
The emergence of social media has become such a big part of our lives that so many people cannot live without checking the latest updates on the newsfeed on different social media every five minutes. Some may argue that social…
We Don’t Talk Anymore, We Text
“Text me!” has become one of the most common phrases people use when they first meet each other. Ever since text messaging was first introduced in 1933, the use of SMS (short messaging service) has increased exponentially especially among teenagers nowadays. Despite…