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-14 posts tagged "media"
Renee Yaseen | Monday, April 26, 2021
When I log onto social media, my typical feed consists of an ample mix of my friends’ pictures, memes and political content. Now more than ever, we use social media to get, spread and react to news. This can be a good thing: social media allows ordinary people to share their viewpoints and perspectives. We
Claire Reid | Monday, March 22, 2021
Matthew Turek, program manager of the Department of Defense’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Innovation Office, discussed media manipulation and developing strategies for detecting falsified media in a lecture Friday as part of the Ten Years Hence speaker series, sponsored by the O’Brien-Smith Leadership Program. Turek holds a doctorate in computer science from
Lucy Lynch | Friday, November 17, 2017
The Gender Relations Center presented a panel discussion about “Violence in Media” in LaFortune Student Center on Thursday night. The panel explored the portrayal of violence in scenes from both television and film, and included Mary Kearney, an associate professor in the Department of Film, Television and Theatre, as well as director of the gender studies
Mike Donovan | Friday, September 8, 2017
This is a satire. Relax. Listen up America. Brace yourselves. The knowledge bombs are coming. They’ll rain down on the soft, fluffy snowbanks of the mainstream media, #disrupting the liberal status quo and #leveraging a new era of truth in the journalistic swamp. The Associated Press — a sadistic institution bent on wiping American Exceptionalism,
Nick Laureano | Tuesday, February 14, 2017
If you watched the Super Bowl for the commercials but don’t consider yourself a “car person,” then you might have found yourself wondering: What’s an Alfa Romeo? It’s a car, but the full answer to that question isn’t quite so simple. Perhaps as a function of its Italian heritage — with the racing credentials, beauty
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Wednesday, February 1, 2017
The first 12 days of President Donald Trump’s term in office have been marked by a flurry of executive orders and nationwide protests. In response, NDVotes organized a Tuesday installment of its Pizza, Pop and Politics series and brought two University professors to discuss Trump’s time in office thus far, focusing on his consolidation of
Neil Joseph | Tuesday, January 24, 2017
On President Trump’s first day in office, it seemed that he did little to deviate from the person and politician that he is in order to become a more dignified and calm president. His speech, which was one of the shorter inauguration speeches in history, became a populist rallying cry, conveying a vision of a
Lucas Masin-Moyer | Wednesday, November 2, 2016
Last week, Irish political commentator George Hook backed his bags and headed off to the closest thing America has to Ireland itself: the University of Notre Dame. Hook will be broadcasting his show from Notre Dame’s campus all throughout the week in a lead up to election day coverage. First, however, Hook spoke on the
Gary Caruso | Friday, September 16, 2016
Conspiracy theorists like my sister — a Notre Dame graduate like me, an American Studies major like me and a Lyons Hall resident like me — fervently articulate, unlike me, a distrust of large media conglomerate broadcasting. Her premise is that today’s for-profit media companies mandate news coverage in such a way that they chase
Julian Mancini | Monday, September 12, 2016
This generation deserves a better class of internet. And we all should start giving it to them. The internet has grown from a novel bit of technology to an essential means for the general public to communicate, find entertainment and receive information. However, it is our generation’s abuse of this brilliant innovation that has begun