“If you don’t see a face you can’t create an emotional connection, you can’t react” Markus Imhoof says on why he took a personal approach to his latest doc on the refugee crisis Amnesty International USA

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Thank you LAT Entertainment for hosting a fabulous screening of Eldorado and q&a with Amnesty International USA #EnvelopeLive

Although mass media has given voice to nonwestern civilizations, has it given them more communication at the cost of their culture?#CMST393

@vzavalaCMST393 I think there should be a way to combine culture and mass media, although I'm not sure what exactly it would be

#CMST393 New media is the product of new technology and directly effects the type of Capitalist system governing the US by the way it's used

by private and public companies #CMST393

@MS_CMST393 NmejiaCMST393 especially when economic power comes into play it destroys the meaning of "honest" journalism

Bird uses terms of service as an example of ways to discipline 'produsage'. Does this mean that companies can take credit for (1/2) #CMST393

revolutionary consumer created content? (1/2) #CMST393

@vzavalaCMST393 @kwCMST393 I agree b/c Facebook posts are technically "production" but are definitely not always seen that way

#CMST393 You can't eliminate the digital divide when looking at online participation b/c part is choice and America is not a country (1/2)

#CMST393 that countrols all the choices of others, we can't force everyone to take advantage of access to the internet. (2/2)

apple.com/customer-lette… #CMST393 this is directly related to our 72-hour solution so I found it especially interesting! Check it out!

#CMST393 Social media is great to use as a public sphere, however it seems to provide opinions/facts over pushing calls to action

@MS_CMST393 I don't know if there's a way around the bias, but it doesn't have to be a bad thing if people know how to interpret posts

#CMST393 hackers can have good intentions, but as someone who has been hacked it really is awful what the wide range of opportunities (1)

#CMST393 offers them and the potential to do very bad things is terrifying (2)

#CMST393 let the gov't keep secrets or push for full exposure. two black and white solutions for a world that isn't at all black and white.

@kroseCMST393 @393ProFinlay I agree, which is also a problem I had with Hillary Clinton arguing that it does in her speech we watched today