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Unveiling the Surveillance

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 […]

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Virtually Addicted

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. […]

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Stop and SMELL the Story

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 […]

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A #RudeAwakening

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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