Britney's Media Blog

     Now that we have studied the media, I have become more aware of the techniques and needs advertisers use on us. Every time an ad comes up on TV I start to break it down and identifying the techniques they used without realizing I’m doing it. Now I try avoiding ads as much as I can. When an ad comes up on YouTube while I’m trying to watch a video, I skip it as fast as I can because I know I see way too many ads in one day and I don’t need to look at more.      My media consumption habits have changed because I have learned to see ads and the media in a different way. I try to pay no attention to the ads but looking at the product itself. I think about how it could be helpful to me, or if I actually like it. I pay more attention to the word choice used in newspapers and articles. This can also be applied to speeches and things said by politicians in interviews. I can now identify when they are using doublespeak or ambiguity to make it seem like they k...

     Alan Turing was an English computer scientist, cryptanalyst, and mathematician. He was the creator of "the Turing machine" or what is now known as a computer. During WWII, Turing worked in the Government Code and Cypher School. He invented a machine that could help find settings for the Enigma Machine. The machine was used to figure out Nazi traffic signals. It has been estimated that this work shortened the war in Europe by more than two years and saved over fourteen million lives.      The movie The Imitation Game shows us his life during and after WWII and the breaking of the Enigma codes.      In the 1950s, homosexuality in England was still illegal. He was gay and prosecuted with homosexual acts in 1952. He accepted chemical castration over imprisonment. Turing committed suicide in 1954.      The movie brought Turing's legacy to a wider audience.      Despite having helped save so many lives, he...

     Malala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. She stood up for her education and was shot by the Taliban while she was riding the bus home from school. She didn't just stand up for herself, but for other girls who had the same dream as her. She was their voice. In her book I Am Malala , she tells her story.      Malala makes us picture men, women, and children who were being terrorized everyday by the Taliban and where boys were being radicalized. People could only follow orders or face the consequences.      Malala wrote more of her experiences in a BBC blog under the pen name Gul Makai. Although she had grown used to going to school with her books hidden, she started publicly writing and advocating for girls' education. Malala was even forced to leave her home with her family because they were living in a very violent border. When they came back, their school had been bombed and ...