MEDIA LAW AND LITERACY

  Diffusion of Innovation Theory is how an innovation spreads through a population. I will be focusing this post about the diffusion of Instagram and how it has slowly became one of the most popular apps today. In my previous post (blog 6) I talked about the start of instagram and the story of how it was created. Slowly but surly, the app gained popularity and as it became more popular it added new features for new users. Even though instagram has minted its same simple element, it somehow continues to grow and reach new people every day.  In 2009, Kevin Systrom, the creator of instagram started creating the app called Burbn. It was still in age experimental stage. Systrom created the prototype that mainly focused on photo sharing. Then in 2010 he maintained some venture capital funding to get the app up and running. During this time he obtained a partner and together they worked to release the app. The same year, Instagram was released and had it first pioneers of the app. I...

    Facebook        My classmates delivered some very good presentations but one that stood out to me the most was a presentation on Facebook. Facebook was very popular when I was in middle school and I feel like it gets more popular as I get older and become more mature. My parents use facebook and I only got an account my senior year of high school to join incoming freshman groups to try and meet friends for the fall semester. Since then I have kept my account pretty up to date, friending distant family members and friends of my parents that I didn't follow on my other social media platforms. To be honest, I only check my facebook when I'm really bored and have nothing else to look at, so about 3 times a week.       In class the girl who presented the Facebook app mentioned how the app was created for college students, which I find ironic since I only created an account to meet people in college. It actually started as a dating app whe...

      After browsing two websites (antiwar.com and theamericanconservative.com) its become more relevant that strong Anti-War voices are not heard or spoken on mainstream news nearly as much. It makes me wonder why we never talk about anti-war more in present day. These news websites promote news thats not seen or spoken about on channels such as Fox or CBS. There are a couple main reasons why I believe that anti-war is not spoken about nearly as much today, especially given all the new ways to post and share media.      One, the United States is  currently at war with our enemies. We've been fighting this war since 2001 when ISIS performed deadly acts of terrorism on our country. These acts of terrorism have never been taken lightly, so being at war with the country who put so much hurt and death on our country seems like more of a logical reason. American troops have been stationed overseas for over a decade and are still fighting for the freedom and...

I’ve had Instagram since the 6 th   grade and it has changed so much since then. Instagram has been one of my most favorite and most used apps since I can remember and researching it took me back to that time in my life. Instagram first started in 2009 by Kevin Systrom, who used to work at google and Odeo, what later become Twitter. Systrom had very little training in coding but would practiceon during the weekends and at night to become better. Eventually, he built a prototype app called Burbn, an app for people to check in places, post plans and share photos. The photo share is what made Burbn special and different because there really wasn't an app with that feature out yet. In 2010, Systrom went to a work party where he had met 2 capitalists from the Silicon Valley. He showed them the startup of Burbn and decided to meet again for coffee to discuss the app in more detail. Systrom ended up quitting his current job to further develop the app and ended up raising $500,000 in fundi...