JRN 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Edward Snowden, Internet Privacy, Targeted Advertising
Document Summary
Brings celebrity/fame, money and reinforces looking socially acceptable as a personal/cultural value. Starting the internalize criticism and change/check behavior - (i. e. changing your body to lose weight like on antm selfies) "sponsored links" ads that pop up on the side of your screen, cookies. We don"t overtly consent to having our data mined. Gleans information from search terms google scans content of emails fb uses profile info to create personalized ads 4square: data collection functions as surveillance. Because it is difficult to disengage from targeted advertising and data mining. A set of skills within the new media environemt how to interpret and create new media texts. The digital turn has left us more disconnected than before. The digital turn connects us more than before and finds similarities in others across the world. With technology, we can control the nature of relationships which means everything is.
