NIck Layman's Blog

Recently, I’ve had the opportunity to sit back and reflect on the type of changes that have occurred over the span of my twenty-three years on earth. The most drastic change that was impossible to overlook was the evolution between how we give and receive information during the early twenty-first century. The establishment of social

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In 1997, platforms such as Bolt and Six Degrees were launched out onto the world wide web. Six Degrees is widely accepted to be on the first social media platforms constructed by Andrew Weinreich. The premise of the website “allowed users to create a profile and list their interests, and then connect with others who

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When an important breaking news story hits all types of factual information, misinformation, and disinformation is flooded into the mainstream. This information is then reported, distributed, and then displayed through multiple outlets. These outlets historically were restricted to cable news and newspaper. However, with the continual advances in technology new media currents such as social

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In our current state, misinformation and disinformation run rampant in our society. The need for fast paced reporting and instant information has caused many situations where media is misreported. Other slower and more methodical ways of spreading false news whether malicious or unintentional degrades the public’s trust in news media. Today, we are going to

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For this week’s blog assignment, students of this class were given the job of following and keeping tabs of their daily media consumption. I chose to do my class assignment yesterday (Thursday) due to having an enormous course load. Wouldn’t recommend taking four accelerated courses towards the end of the semester! Thursday was just like

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As you can see by the title this is my first experience using WordPress. To say it has been frustrating and time consuming would be the world’s biggest understatement. To begin, I started out my process by selecting a domain name that was written under my initials rather than my full name. The theme that

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