Facebook: Watching the Watchers

The ringtone of my phone went on for five minutes without a moment’s respite. It was my alarm clock at 6:45 am. Although my mind was still in a fog when I finally got up, I turned on my iphone, and saw two friend requests on Facebook plus three new likes on Instagram. My everyday life routinely starts with me being exposed to mass media. Indeed, in the modern society, the mass media have been vested with such an enormous power that can impact multifarious aspects of our daily life. As a 19-year old

“'Protect Your Children”: 14-Year-Old Girls Shot, Killed By Three Teen Boys After Agreeing To Meet One On Facebook.'" Social media has become a platform for youth violence. ABC news interviewed a person who lived in Chicago that knew about different sites that gang members used to promote gang violence. Gang members made threats, called out rival gangs, promoted their territory, and recruit gang members. In effect of that, it led to stomp-outs; which are,to beat someone, or rival enemy up with feet

Big Brother tries watching you The air smells of freshly ground coffee. The hiss of the milk foaming machine can be heard in regular intervals. Carl is waiting for his latte. “Carl! Double latte.” The voice from behind the stainless steel machine sounds firm but friendly. He sees his name written with black marker on the cup. The paper feels warm as he carries it over to the sugar station. His sugar pack spills some granules on the counter. It is lunch break and he takes only available chair near

Recently, Facebook was sued for using its users illegally for the facial recognition feature. It is commonly used for people to tag their friends when they upload photos on Facebook. However, plaintiffs claim it violates a Illinois Law that “prohibits companies from collecting biometric data from people without their consent”. Although Facebook argued that users can disable this feature, the judge think Facebook scan plaintiffs’ face without their consents (Gershman 2016). Most Facebook users still

bowl are very significant. Everything is important. The first factor that changed the Super bowl is mobile devices, laptops, and tablets. Secondly, with the devices comes what they do for the companies, many people tweet, use Instagram, and have Facebook to talk about adds which get the companies name in minds. Spreading the company names to people which then they pass on to their friends, and so on and so forth. “The point is that now, more than ever, advertising during the Super bowl isn’t just

years old when my brother and I ran out of our house screaming when we saw Regan from The Exorcist doing a spider walk down the stairs with blood coming out of her mouth. When interviewing my mom, she said “I didn’t have concerns with what you were watching or doing on the computer. I trusted you.” My mother was very lenient when managing my media use because I could watch any television show, any movie, and play any video game I wanted. I was also allowed to search anything I wanted on our computer

most people have accounts on different social media platforms that allow them to express their views and share their lives with the world. I also partake in the social media world and have various accounts on different social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat, all of which allow me to share my life with my friends, family and my community. Having all of these accounts makes me feel like I have a strong voice and I can be heard everywhere which is amazing but yet can be

count on or have close relationship with. So they publish themselves to get noticed, to be known, to be cared, to be talked about. They also seek affection by simply or secretly getting any semblance of relationship they can find, such as friend on Facebook who they have never met or any video of celebrities on YouTube (Simmerman

Codependency over the World Wide Web is deeply engrossed to society as modern technology inclines and enraptures more into our daily life. Not to mention the horror cinematography aficionados’ community I form part of. Social media is an essential means of communication for different people to communicate and associate through similar interests. Portrayal of negative emotions, manifestation of the uncanny and fictitious illusion are all integrated into horror as the horror community express their

Photos of youthful, skinny ladies (and teens) are seen all over TV, magazines, social media sites and even kids toys like Barbie and Ken, dolls and puppets. These pictures portray what the perfect women should look like in American Beauty Culture. Society today has ladies (and teens) being either skinny and starving or stout and full. I know numerous women, I included, who think they are ugly in light of the width of their clothes. According to Fatema Mernissi in “Size 6: The Western Women’s