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Blog Post #10

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 I have a Youtube channel called Shadow Force 623. It is a gaming channel with 483 subscribers. The channel contains videos of me playing a wide variety of video games ranging from Flash Games such as Sift Heads, Bloons Tower Defense 3, and Papa’s Freezeria, to Arcade games such as Pop’n Music 20 Fantasia, Donkey Kong 3, and Offroad Thunder. Social media sites I use are Youtube and Deviantart. On Deviantart I have put photos of sunsets across North Carolina, pictures of characters using programs such as Mega Anime Avatar Creator and Anime Character Maker 2, and photoshopped pictures. I have linked to BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint and other Youtube videos. After visiting my youtube page, people would know that I am a hardcore gamer and that I am really creative and I am excellent at using Photoshop. From reading my stories on Deviantart people would know I like to write various stories in the genres of action and horror. One example of this is a story called Hunted Down which is a creepypasta
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Blog Post #9

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  I learned that according to the video, in 2017, China decided to catch up with the rest of the world in AI, particularly catching up with the US in 2025 and lead the world by 2030. China leads the world in E-Commerce with drones. Instead of credit cards, they use facial recognition. One man in particular was a Taiwanese scientist, entrepreneur, and businessman who went to school in Tennessee. He was the inventor of Apple’s voice recognition technology known as Kai-Fu Lee.  Important take-aways include how China has an app called WeChat also known as Weixin. This app was very innovative and unique in that it combined the abilities of Facebook, Messenger, PayPal and much more all into one superapp. It surprised me that autonomous cars were in the late 2000s. One entrepreneur in China named Cao Xudong founded the company Momenta. I was frightened by the fact that China is constantly collecting data on its own citizens to create more and more AI. However, this innovation comes at a hea
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Blog Post #8

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  I believe that you never hear about these sentiments because issues like the war in Ukraine have been the subject of controversy and heated debate and possibly could be considered disinformation. In other words, most of the mainstream media often tend to censor conservative talking points especially since one of these sites is titled “The American Conservative”. I have never heard of those sites because I never looked at them when looking at current events and political issues alike. Like many alternative platforms such as Minds, Rumble, BitChute, Parler, and many others, ANTIWAR.com and The American Conservative have also been censored or faded into obscurity. Sometimes, they are even taken off of google search results. This makes them exponentially hard to find and the user has to make an effort to seek them out.  Before all that however , there was a timeline known as the Progressive Era that began in 1914 when WWI broke out. According to a video by Davis Stephens, one of the ver
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Blog Post #7

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  AWARENESS Propaganda Disinformation Smith-Mundt Act Total Information Awareness False Flag Five Eyes   Group 1 is Awareness. According to the Cambridge Dictionary, awareness in the media is “an understanding of the different methods for presenting information in newspapers , on television , on the internet , etc.” (Cambridge, 2024). Implications are how the media has been very polarized and biased lately. For example, without awareness, News networks have the ability to push their own agendas rather than report the news as it is. On one hand when the media reports scandals, they indirectly increase awareness to other social issues such as sexual harassment and cancel culture. On the other hand, it could pave the way to and dissolve into cancel culture itself and potential bias could be involved. Propaganda as stated by Dictionary.com is “ information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc.” Propaganda can b
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Blog Post #6

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 I would like to discuss Rogers' Diffusion of Innovations Theory in relation to Netflix. Netflix caught on and spread because people were tired of having to return their videos to the rental store and they would much rather cherish their favorite movies to their heart's content. This is where Netflix comes in, Netflix allows users to stream their favorite movies and TV shows as long as they want to. So many people became early adopters because of the late fees from video rental companies such as Blockbuster. Some people did not adopt it because Netflix requires an internet connection and they preferred to have a DVD that they could watch over and over again. If the internet was out, they could still watch their favorite movies.  According to Rogers' Five Characteristics of Innovation, Compatibility, Trialability, Relative Advantage, Observability, and Simplicity, Netflix met all of these characteristics. It fit with existing values and patterns of behavior for entertainment
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Blog Post #5

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 The technology I chose to research is Netflix. Netflix is an online streaming service founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph in Scotts Valley, California. It functions in a similar manner to Amazon Prime, Hulu, Tubi, Crunchyroll, Disney+, Paramount Plus, Peacock, HBO Max, and other streaming services. The circumstances were that Blockbuster was the top rental service. However, Blockbuster had several shortcomings such as inner strife and debt. Netflix started out as a rental service that rented DVDs and Videos through the U.S mail much like Amazon or Ebay.  Over time, Netflix evolved into a global streaming platform with millions of users creating the Netflix that we understand today, giving the customers more options from which to choose . According to an article by Sharpencx.com, Netflix tried to “create customer-centricity to the video market” (Sharpencx 2024). “Customer-centricity” is where a company makes customer experience their top priority which Netflix has succes
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Blog Post #4

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  As someone who lives in the information age, I can relate to these issues very well. Today the government has been cracking down on various political opponents of the Biden Administration, weaponizing the department of justice against people such as Mark Houck a pro-life activist from Pennsylvania and there have also been numerous stories of companies such as Google and Facebook storing the data of other people. However, it’s not just the government, corporations, and police that invade other people’s privacy, Bad actors and activists have been invading the privacy of others in their own right. In recent times, groups such as Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and other SJW movements have been going after people on social media and especially on Twitter. If someone posts something controversial or something that does not align with their political views, they will attempt to ruin their lives on social media or try to cancel them as well as make several attempts to harass them. In terms of b
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