After watching Safiya Noble’s TED talk on racist algorithms, I knew I wanted to do a remix video that showed this bias in facial recognition software, demanded attention towards the issue and called for the hiring of more coders of color. I also read several articles on the topic, including “How White Engineers Built Racist […]
I don’t use social media that much, so I thought it’d be interesting to see what Instagram knew about me even though I scroll through it about once every two weeks and rarely post anything. In the back of my mind, I knew that they kept files of everything I posted, commented and liked, but […]
The argument that I’m making with this infographic is about diversity among directors. While there’s a slight increase in the amount of POC directed films and TV show episodes, when compared to their white counterparts, there’s still a long way to go in terms of media representation for POC. I chose data points about how […]
According to my Screen Time app, I spent 7 hours and 43 minutes on my phone this Sunday (3.29.20). To be fair, it’s a lot less on days when I have online class, but this is still a significant jump from the 2 hours I usually spend on my phone during the weekend or weekday. […]
In Joe Rosenthal’s “Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima,” I changed the American flag to a Russian one. I also changed the front soldier’s head to Trump’s, put a MAGA hat on him so he’d be distinguishable from the back and also changed the other soldiers’ hats to red to symbolize Trump’s team and followers. […]
In Grant Gordon’s NFL article, “These Niners Look A Lot Like ‘94 Super Bowl Champs,” he opens with a very touching description of the 49ers coach receiving the Halas trophy from his father, also former coach. Gordon continues the piece with an admiring tone to hold the audience’s attention as he compares the current 49ers […]
As a journalism student, I hoped that logging my media consumption would reveal that I mostly just use my phone to look at the news and rarely resort to social media for entertainment. I was wrong. I will say that because my friends were visiting from Texas, I was on my phone less often and […]
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