In this week’s blog post, I will be breaking down Bob Dylan’s song Blowin’ in the Wind as a cultural resource, analyzing what it meant to cultural movements of the '60s, and what it means in 2023. The song was…

This week’s blog post is about stereotypes and generalizations made about musicians and artists. As with any passion or profession, it can be easy to make assumptions about the challenges that come with being an artist, many of which may…

In today's blog post, I will be discussing birtherism. It is focused on the 44th president of the United States, Barack Obama, and the false statements made that he was not born in the United States. Birtherism suggests that his…

If you’re like me, hundreds of news stories pass before your eyes while blindly scrolling through your social media feeds every day. Most aren’t interesting, some you don’t believe, some you hope are true, and some you pray are not…

This is a 24-hour analysis of the media I interacted with and what kind of information and data I was sharing while doing so. I did this analysis on September 6th, 2023 which was a fairly standard workday for me…

In this week's blog post, I will be discussing Net Neutrality and how it affects media consumers. Net Neutrality is the idea that internet providers ensure equal access to all sites, content, and applications at the same speed. I will…

This is my media diet journal for August 22nd, 2023! This was a typical weekday in which I spent most of the morning working at Starbucks and the afternoon doing school work.

5:30 a.m.: Once I wake up, between my…