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I won’t waste your time by explaining what the Coronavirus is to you because everyone has had enough of that. What I want to talk about in this blog is how the Coronavirus has given media a whole new meaning and purpose. We are being asked to remain home and social distance ourselves from friends,Continue reading “Coronavirus: Giving media a whole new meaning”

Have you (recently) gone a whole day without going on social media? Personally I couldn’t last more than an hour without checking Snapchat or Instagram. The average 16-24-year-old spends a median of 3 hours a day on social media. Are we millennials becoming addicted to social media? Although most people are capable of scrolling through their social media feeds casually, psychologists estimateContinue reading “Should we delete our social media?”

Facebook was created in 2003 by Mark Zuckerberg and was known as a game called ‘facemash’. Facemash let users rate classmates against each other by deciding whose photo was “hotter”. In 2004, Zuckerberg launched Facebook, at the age of just 19. Facebook is a social networking platform where users can post comments, upload photos, chat liveContinue reading “Facebook: how well do you know your friends?”

Taking photos on your smartphone could be spoiling your memories. Linda Henkel, a psychology professor at Fairfield University suggests that taking photos of ‘memories’ can actually impair your ability to remember the events later. Have you ever been at a festival or a concert and looked around to see a sea of phones filming theContinue reading “Cameras: Do we document too much?”

Everyday newspapers like “The Sun” and “The Daily Mail” post gossip stories about celebrities which we as normal people seem to thrive off. As they say, “any press is good press”, however is this always the case? Looking at the recent tragedy of Caroline Flack taking her own life, many are arguing that the pressContinue reading “Online Reading: Did the media kill Caroline Flack?”

Have you ever been scrolling through Facebook or Instagram and seen an advert for something you were just talking about with your friends? Or for something you’ve been looking at buying for a while? Every-time you do anything on the internet it is logged and remembered forever. Every post you like, comment you add, orContinue reading “Data to information: who’s watching who?”

If you were to go onto any of the popular media platforms such as YouTube, Facebook, Google, or Instagram for example, you would witness some sort of multilingualism. Take Instagram for example, when you’re scrolling down your feed and see a post with a caption in a language different to yours, you have the opportunityContinue reading “Multilingualism Online: Is it making us lazy?”

Social or Anti-Social Media? I wasn’t sure how to start my first blog, so naturally the first thing I did was read a few other ‘first blog’ posts. One particular blog I read mentioned how they used google to find inspiration. In a lecture I was in the other day, we were asked to writeContinue reading “My first blog.”

This blog is for the module Language and New Media LS2LNM. New posts will be added every Monday night. Please check back every week.