Author Archives: Nicole Danigelis

Throughout the course of this semester, I have been given the opportunity to take a look at social media in news ways than I ever had before. I personally have had quite a long and rocky journey with my experiences using social media. When I got my first smartphone in the 7th grade, which wasContinue reading “Blog Post #6: Social Media Tells Stories”

If social credit systems are an upcoming reality in some countries, social media could play an instrumental role in future societies. To understand this statement me must evaluate what a social credit system is and what impact social media currently has on our society. According to the Wired article titled “The complicated truth about China’sContinue reading “Blog Post #5: Social Credit Systems and Social Media”

Throughout my attempt to create my own Wikipedia post I struggled a lot. Even with all of the thorough instruction that I received in the directions for this assignment, I found that I came to road block after roadblock. When attempting to come up with an idea of what to create an article about, IContinue reading “Blog Post #4: The Battle with Wikipedia”

The millennial generation consists of people who were born between 1980 and 2000, mostly being the children of baby boomers. Digital Natives, on the other hand, are also known as Generation Z which were the group to follow Millennials up until the early 2010s. Everyone prior to Gen Z are referred to as Digital Immigrants.Continue reading “Blog Post #3: Millennials, Stereotypes, and Digital Natives”

On February 10, 2011 the song “Friday” by Rebecca Black was posted on Youtube. At the time, it did not take long for the Youtube video to go viral for negative reasons. From its “shallow” lyrics, to its “excessive” autotune, people flooded the video’s comments and the rest of social media with hateful words aboutContinue reading “Blog Post #2: “Friday” by Rebecca Black one of the biggest memes in history”

When asked to define net neutrality, the simple definition becomes more and more complex as its different elements unfold. Net neutrality can be defined as a the principle that states that Internet service providers should allow access to all areas of the internet regardless of where the content comes from, and without favoring or blockingContinue reading “Blog Post #1: Net Neutrality and the Web We Want”