Inspired by “Is it My Opinion?”, “The Ease of Online Shopping” – blogs from fellow students – and a New York Times article, I have decided to touch upon the topic of fake reviews for my last blog. As mentioned in “The Ease of Online Shopping”, there is a plethora of products you can order online, but another interesting aspect of the…
Are you a fan of something, whether it is a movie, a historical figure or even a football player? Have you ever read a fanfiction online and write your fiction about the people (or even the non-human) whom you love? In the past 20 years, over 60 billion words of fan fiction have been written and posted on Fanfiction websites. They may…
Written by Nina Mohammed Bagher Beik To give us some direction, this week we got a prompt to help us write our first blog post. The prompt was: ‘What is your earliest memory of digital media’ and that instantaneously took me back to my memories of the ever so present epic gamer message board that goes by the name GameFAQs. GameFAQs, for…

In hopes of wrapping up these series of blogs in style, I thought I would document the A to Z of things I have discovered through the Internet that significantly and qualitatively enriched my existence over the years! A for AMA AMA (or /r/IAmA; Ask me Anything) is a subreddit for interactive interviews, ranging from various celebrities to everyday people in several…
For this last blog post I was inspired by our assigned presentation, for which I chose to examine the future of traditional media. The subject has way too many layers to solely tackle through a twitter thread format with a limited number of characters. Though I must add, it was a delight to narrate the issue with shorter, more precise expressions given…