The relation between Steinmetz and Burkhardt’s articles to Clive Thompson’s is tricky to pick out because they seem so different when first reading them. I think that they are related by the fact that they all want readers to be aware that they are reading fake news regardless of how they get to that point …
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Blog Post #3.5
The way I think about fake news now has not changed a lot. I never really cared too much about the topic and therefore did not have an opinion on it. Although that seems like a bad thing, it is easier for me to evaluate both ends of the arguments these two articles make. After …
Blog Post #3
Major Research Paper Topics The first topic I chose is medicinal anomalies. A new movie on Netflix called “Brain on Fire” came out recently and I was interested in it so of course, I watched it. In short, the movie is about this happy girl who has a job she loves and a supportive family. …
Blog Post #2.5
Freewriting As I am reading “The Real Fake News Crisis” I keep thinking about how reliable the authors sources. She keeps making the reader feel like fake news is a huge ordeal and is 99% of what we read online, which may be, but how does she know the difference between real and fake news …
Blog Post #2
Student Sample Analysis After reading Kafka’s paper I realized that she had a tough time acknowledging the opposing side of some of her claims. I believe that this is a key point in an essay because it makes your argument stronger. For example, when Kafka states that trash is ” trucked to landfills, dumped into the …
Blog Post #1
Where do you like to surf the internet? I do not surf the internet too much because I believe media is good at making us lose faith in mankind. Most situations are portrayed negatively and I do not put time and effort feeding into that. The most internet surfing I do is looking at the …
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