Blog #6- EOTO Project - YouTube

 

    YouTube is today one of the largest film sharing/uploading platforms in the world with billions of watchers/viewers/contact creators. YouTube was created in 2005 by 3 guys. Steven Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. The first idea for the platform of YouTube was when the founders were at a dinner party and they wanted to create something to share videos online and expire them to develop a friendly platform to use and upload videos. It also was made as a video dating online service for people to introduce themselves and to describe what they were looking for and a partner. 

    A big factor about YouTube  being created is the creators  were really frustrated since there was no simple way to upload/share videos in an easy way. So they created a platform to do so. YouTube has significantly changed our world today. With creating, making, and uploading content. There are so many factors that go into how YouTube changed our world by showing different ways. People could have platforms to share their videos regarding what their background is to show creator‘s content and how it’s influencing people to have careers in that field or just to reach their audience. There’s so many educational resources on YouTube with tutorials, lectures, how to make certain things, anything you possibly need an educational resource for it will be on YouTube. Another aspect is that it changes in our world with entertainment, advertising, and marketing different things. People could show all their different marketing techniques and how they Collab with different Youtubers with different brands and how it reaches certain audiences to give them a significant part of a digital marketing.

    

Although all the good significant life-changing factors that YouTube brings, there’s also a lot of negative factors back in the day when YouTube was first created that a lot of people didn’t like users would be able to post, share, and view content without restriction so basically anyone could see anything and post whatever because there wasn’t a restriction guide back in the day when it was first made. Children can also view videos that would be maybe considered strange, explicit words, or maybe even sexual content. Because at the time there was no restriction guide. Also other factors that were big problems were YouTube is trying to provide a platform where anyone could upload a video and watch contact without barriers or cost because now since there’s so many restrictions with copyright in all of that, people are making money back in the day off of that and they were stealing other people‘s content without barriers or restriction.

    YouTube has a huge impact on the world by connecting people all over the world and giving them a voice. YouTube changed the world by giving so many people different outlets to connect over each other’s videos, but also giving them a way to make money by doing certain stuff they love. It was an easy way for people to upload, share videos to reach other people around the world could build different communities by sharing interest, but also connecting with each other with something they both love.

Blog #3- 8 Values of Free Expression

The eight values of free expression are a huge function in our society today. It brings you the way of finding truth which values and allows for the exchange of different interpretations of uncovering the truth. Having other different people’s values with their opinions can have the public involved as well. With being to have a free expression on what you believe. It will also help support individuals by fulfilling their expression of their ideas and beliefs.I think it’s a good way that it helps advance knowledge and gives free expression. It can also maintain peaceful means through solving conflicts.

The most important I believe and most personal to me I think would be individual self-fulfillment. I believe this is the most important because it’s a true factor of free expression that allows growth to one’s potential. It empowers the free expression for personal growth and self reflection. By being able to have free thoughts, ideas, creative outlooks that can influence and achieve our lives fulfilling. It’s a value where people could have a voice in their way and in their perspective show what they’re going through their experiences with all having a purpose in just a free sense of welcomeness. I think it’s truly the most important because as we’re going through a time of people’s different expressions of passions. I think that having self -information is truly the most important. Growing up in a household that my parents truly wanted our own voices with all 3 of my brothers to have different opinions with each other and that we all have had a voice, so we really didn’t discuss politics on a manner of what our parents believe but they would encourage us to learn about it so we have our own opinions and we wouldn’t really share with each other. What ours were because my parents thought that we had her own voice to talk to and that we shouldn’t be influenced by what their opinions were or my brothers. While growing up having that nowadays, I feel like it’s very rare because everyone kind of just follows their family or what they believe and it’s not really a self informant expression when I feel like they could maybe take a back, maybe they still believe the same stuff but it’s truly what they believe. Individual self-fulfillment definitely has to feel the most important and personal to me. Individual self-information definitely has to feel the most important and personal to me and I also could see this nowadays, but not as much as I see.

I believe the most important one I could see nowadays would probably be advancing knowledge with going through this election and even way before the election I feel like people just need to know their knowledge before having a big opinion on everything and kind of just understanding that other people have opinions which is perfectly fine but to accept that which I feel like nowadays, it’s really hard and it’s more like of a competition/argument, then more of freedom of expression.

Blog #2- The Supreme Court

 Being not really familiar with the Supreme Court and truly what it really is. I feel like I learned about it very briefly in school or learned about it a lot and it just never stuck because of the way the teachers taught it was not interesting and didn’t really make it seem as important for younger kids to learn at a younger age so they know more about it as they get older. 

The Supreme Court offers the most consecutive decisions that define the structure and functioning of the United States and our government. The judicial branch and how it serves as the primary function of our laws were definitely important components. A key takeaway regarding the Supreme Court is that, indeed, it is the highest court in our constitution, granting rights and making decisions that affect American society. The Supreme Court has enormous judicial authority, which manifests itself in a variety of ways throughout the various levels of government to set various boundaries. The Supreme Court has rendered decisions in historic situations, and I think that both then and now, life is so different.

I was unaware that there have been more than 100 justices appointed to the Supreme Court, and that the average length of service was 16 years. I found it fascinating that you could serve for so long, and I feel it's really excellent and fantastic to think you can serve for that long.  

I became much more aware of the Supreme Court's tasks and its status as our nation's highest court after observing this film.  I knew very little about the Supreme Court before viewing this film, including how important it is to uphold the law in this way and how doing so protects our freedoms as citizens and the freedom of all Americans.

Blog #1- 5 Sources of News and Information

   My first new source that I find  information and news from is TikTok. I know since it’s an app where you make videos it’s kinda hard to think about the news. But someone who is a very good visual learner. I feel like TikTok gives you daily news with facts, evidence and many more. Since it’s also a big influencer, I feel like yes, you use it for entertainment, but you really discover a lot of daily events or bigger new stories through the app that you might not see on a website or a News service as quickly. It really does motivate me to know more news when it comes up on my for you page because I’ll look into it and I'll hit other videos. I’ll watch other influencers' accounts. Read the comments and just really get all my facts so I really think TikTok is a good news source, even though it is an app for kids that are getting addicted to daily, but I think it does have benefits and this is one of the bigger ones.

My second new source that I use that helps with being a sports media  major I love going on ESPN and finding news that I will enjoy throughout the day. I really like how it’s an app where it has all the different sports so I can know about all my different teams. ESPN also allows me to watch games so I feel like that’s a really cool feature so I don’t have to buy a certain other streaming service or use cable that I don’t have in my dorm. This app allows you to watch play-by-play if you can’t, it gives you news instantly. Which I like to scroll through throughout the day and hear about all the different news and sports.

My third source of finding out news and information would be Instagram. Yes it’s an app that’s meant to post and comment and interact with people around the world to see their posts. But I do think Instagram is very fast with putting out information so people can see. I think since so many people use Instagram so often and daily that's why we find out News faster on Instagram because people are always on Instagram. Another reason why I put Instagram as my third source is because I noticed with influencers/celebrities they will put out news on Instagram stories comments just to get it out there so everyone can see nowadays rather than a Twitter and posting it. I think Instagram is the new way of them showing/posting their news. And I feel like that’s a very interesting thing I’ve noticed with growing up on both platforms.

Family and friends are certainly my fourth new source. I am aware that this is an interesting source for news and information, but I feel that because I speak with my family so frequently and on a daily basis, I truly hear everything that is going on, whether it be local news, news from home, or just the news that I missed that day because I was in class or something else happened and I didn't hear about it. Additionally, I feel like I grew up with a larger family that is all talkative. We actually communicate a lot and enjoy discussing gossip and news, and I actually get my daily news from my family.

My fifth and last source is News 12 it’s my local news channel that I get all my news from when I’m home but also having the app on my phone I love staying in the loop of what’s happening at home and even just like weatherwise cause it still could affect where I am right now at school. I enjoy listening to and learning about all the events going on in my community, including the high school sports teams and the latest developments in politics and sports. It's difficult to listen to the news down here because it's not my local news, but I try to do it a little bit more often that I haven't been home for as long. I grew up with News 12, so I can't help but think about it or hear about it.