Social Media Protest

There has been another mass shooting and once again it is being talked about on social media. This seems to be a recurring thing when something tragic happens. For the past couple years when there is a mass shooting the media spreads the news fast as lightning. The upside to this is that it spreads awareness and causes people to want to react. The downside is that this energy only last a few weeks or months and then most people move on to the with their lives like nothing happened. Social media has made spreading news easy, but with so much news spreading, important topics are not given the time or energy they need.
Malcolm Gladwell talks about this in his article Small Change: Why the revolution will not be tweeted. He states that social media 'makes it easier for activists to express themselves, and harder for that expression to have any impact'. It is known that we already have short attention spans but social media almost makes them shorter. We need to learn to not just tweet or retweet something tragic but also get off our phones and computers and make a change in our communities.

I am currently in Miami and while I am here I thought it would make sense to make this weeks post relate in some way to this beautiful city. School has just started in most cities and Miami-Dade County is not only welcoming returning students and teachers but also a new security system that will feature officers. This change has been implemented in both middle and elementary schools. According to the Miami Herald changes include new uniforms, new school IDs, and a 'unified network of 15,000 high definition cameras'.
I have just learned about this new change through a notification on my phone when I arrived to Miami. This week one of our course articles "A New Media Tells Different Stories" by Bruno Giussani discusses how the internet is not negatively affecting journalism but in a way becoming a way to reach a new audience. I must admit that if I would have never received the notification on the change in Miami- Dade county schools, I would have never knew of how schools were changing. Although some people believe that phones are bad for the new generation, I feel that if used correctly phones can help with spread news within seconds.

Sources:
Miami Herald
A New Media Tells Different Stories by Bruno Giussani

Hello everyone and welcome to my blog. I want to start by introducing myself. My name is Niamaka Pope. I am currently a senior at Kennesaw State University majoring in political science. I plan on graduating in May of 2019.
This blog is in correspondence to my POLS 3380 course called Mass Media and Politics. This blog will contain post, images, and videos that deal with the intersection between media and politics. I understand that media is sometimes seen as biased so I will do my best to keep my personal beliefs and opinions off of this blog.
I also made a twitter that will consist of topics in relation to media and politics. If you would to follow that twitter the username is @politicsgenie.