Robyn Morita

  What do you take for granted or assume about sharing? What I assume/take for granted about sharing is the idea that people who post stuff online, usually do it to be heard and seen. Whether it be for their close friends and families, or on a more public platform. In some extreme cases, some people will post stuff online in hopes to become internet famous, or the next big influencer. In other words, people use social media to share their thoughts and opinions on various topics. People also use social media as a way to “show off” a window into their lives. The food they’re eating, where they visited, who they hang out with, all get shared on social media. Most do it for fun or recreationally, while others do it as their main source of income, or try to. For example, a woman by the name of  Lissette Calveiro ,  put herself into $10,000 in debt trying to become an Instagram influencer. She bought expensive clothes, and traveling to different locations all for Instagram. T...

  I understand "remixing content" to mean, adding a new element (or elements) to an existing piece of media, in order to create something new. In other words, taking a photo or video and adding something new to it, such as a filter or stickers, and creating a new piece of media from it. An example of "remixing content" would be , last year, I took ICS 203: Digital Image Editing, and I learned a lot about how to photoshop and remixing my pictures in order to create a new image. It was a really fun class and the skills that I learned, were really useful especially in today’s world where remixed content is becoming as popular, if not more so, than unfiltered media. These pictures were taken from one of my ICS 203 projects. Here we had to chose two or three images and "blend" them together to create a new image. Here I had chosen a picture of a sunrise I took out of an airplane window, a waterfall, and some flowers. All three pictures were taken by me and ...

Media Awareness YouTube Playlist Articles Very good -  How can you be a more informed news consumer and fact-checker? Here are some tips.  - Fort Worth Star Telegram Partially trustworthy - Most Americans think they can spot fake news. They can't, study finds  - CNN News   Probably untrustworthy -  Local Connection: Fake News  - Hawaii News Now     All three articles tackle the concept of "fake news" in very different ways. However, they do have some similarities. First they all take note that "fake news" is a problem that should be taken seriously. Unfortunately, that's pretty much the only main similarity among the three articles I have chosen.  Fort Worth Star Telegram Article     This article talks about different tools and tricks that you can use whenever you are looking through news articles. In order to catch yourself from falling for fake news articles.  The reason I chose this article as an example of a "very good" art...

  How to spot Fake News Infographic Fake News and You Technology has advanced so much in the past few decades. Before, people were dependent on newspapers and news reports on the television to get the inside scoop on what was going on with the world. Nowadays, people have the ability to just look up information with just a few keystrokes on their phone. Anytime, anyplace. Unfortunately, with the growing convenience of the entire world's knowledge in the palm of your hand, the is also a growing increase on the amount of fake news.   Fake news is exactly that. False news that is being presented as fact to the public. Fake news has become a growing issue over these past few years and it has only gotten worse since the COVID-19 pandemic has become widespread.  There is not only the issue of fake news, but also a problem with biases. People who have strong biases tend to believe news that fits their agenda rather than listen to the truth even if it goes against their beli...

"Almost nothing is about what you think it is about--including you." With the possible exception of those human encounters that Fritz Peris calls "intimacy," all human communications have deeply embedded and profound hidden agendas. Most of the conversation at the top can be assumed to be bullshit of one variety or another. An idealist usually cannot acknowledge his own bullshit, because it is in the nature of his "ism" that he must pretend it does not exist. In fact, I should say that anyone who is devoted to an "ism"--Fascism, Communism, Capital-ism--probably has a seriously defective crap-detector. This is especially true of those devoted to "patriotism." Santha Rama Rau has called patriotism a squalid emotion. I agree. Mainly because I find it hard to escape the conclusion that those most enmeshed in it hear no bullshit whatever in its rhetoric, and as a consequence are extremely dangerous to other people. If you doubt this, I want ...

The Keys to SUCCES(s) Infographic First Level of Reading S imple - To stick to the main points of the topic and to bring attention to the core of the topic. Rather than having longwinded explanations and unnecessary filler. As well as, being careful to not oversimplify and "dumb down" your topics. U nexpected - Ruffling feathers, so to speak, in order to grab people's attention. One way to do this is to leave topics up for discussion and/or interpretation in order for people to become curious to find the answers. C oncrete - Using imagery in order to solidify an idea into your audience's minds. One way to do this is to give plenty of examples and/or analogies in order for people to better understand what you are trying to say.  C redible - When talking about a topic that involves data it is best to provide evidence to help back up your claims. When you provide evidence from credible sources your audience will be more inclined to listen.  E motion - Bring out people...

The Golden Rule Example: Always putting your things away so that others won't trip over them. Especially in the living room. First Level of Reading   "Avoid All Problems and Use Public Domain Images" Basically, to avoid getting in trouble with copyright infringement and plagiarizing someone else's work. Which, would then lead to legal ramifications. You can avoid running into trouble, in the future, by using images that are available to the public domain. This means that anyone can use these images without having to pay  royalties or even having to credit the main source. Just because these pictures are free to use, doesn't necessarily mean that they are low quality pictures. There are lots of pictures with decent quality free to use. It may take longer to search for the perfect images but it will definitely be beneficial to you in the long run.  "Just Because Other People Do it Doesn't Make it Right" Just because some people manage to get away with ...