Tag: Media
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Google's new father-son ad will make you cringe
Take 1: Lover On Nov 19, 2009, Google posted an ad to Youtube titled ‘Parisian Love’. It encapsulated all the emotional highs and lows of living with Google Search. It is one of tech’s best ads ever made. The beauty of this ad was that it was not presumptuous. It painted a picture of a…
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Understand COVID media engagement with a simple mental model
Throughout the pandemic, the most reliable source of information has been the scientists and medical community, and yet we continue to get two levels of filtration between the best source and ourselves. The first filter is the government and the second is the media. The government distorts it one way, the media distorts it another,…
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Stepping Out of Media Overload
In April 2020, a friend and I decided to start a digital media literacy initiative. We wanted to combat the rampant misinformation happening at the start of COVID-19. The idea was to infiltrate people’s social media feeds with thoughtful posts about how to approach current topics. Thus, ThinkFirst News was born. At the onset, this…
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The internet is all porn and you might not even realize it
You may have not realized it but the 2 hours you just spent scrolling up and down Facebook was more than likely 2 hours spent looking at porn. What?! Yes. Let’s begin with some etymology. There’s a very important difference between pornography and porn. Looking at the dictionary definition of the former, it says: por·nog·ra·phypôrˈnäɡrəfē/…
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How to use the Like button to make your Facebook Newsfeed suck less
If you’ve noticed that your Facebook Newsfeed is a little crappy these days, you might want to rethink your Liking strategy. If your Newsfeed is God’s gift of knowledge then please share your tips to make this guide more useful. What is the Like button, really? All interactions on Facebook these days are sucked up…