Fake news began with young people in Veles that wanted to make money with advertising on facebook. They were not very interested in American politics, they advertised in the mid 2016 durning the 2016 elections with Donald trump they found a very hot topic on social media. Fake news is not just about Donald Trump but every important figure like the pope. Hillary Clianton, Bernie sanders and so on. 

Information is a very powerful tool. The phase that has been said for ages is knowledge is power and that saying will always be true and real. 

Fake news is anything that is being spread as a being true or just lies and misinformation. Fake news is very dangerous coming from anyone that uses them but most importantly the president of the United States.  How i think people can combat fake news is being careful where they get the news, also every news or information they get they have to do their own research and verify the information. People when looking to verify information should use legit websites, journals, books and listen to experts. Also people need to understand not to take anyone verbatim always looking into what you are told. Learn from others and let them teach you, learn from the world and look into everything.

I think during this time what is more important in the public to get the right information and not letting the president spread wild and monstrutions stories. 

the national news organizations should be covering politicians and non experts. The power of communication of the media is too big for some to handle spreading false information can have an impact on people greater than the media anticipes. During the Coronavirus pandemic the information that comes out from the news should be verified because a lot of people are looking and watching the news for information, on how to and how not to act, on when things will open and so on. The media enjoys more poking fun at Trump than understanding how his messages are affecting the people, especially now when so much information is coming out and people don’t know what to believe and what not to believe and who they should listen to.

I think at this point in time watching any news is a problem on any platform for me. I get my news from youtube like hill rising, tyt, the humanist report and so on. I stopped watching corporate media a long time ago because tha bia they have in the progessoive movement, and all the misinformation they spread, I also don’t like how they speak when speaking of a black person they say thug a white person doing the same thing is not called a thug, the images they use with the black community versus the white community. I also don’t go to social media such as facebook, Twitter and instagram for my news because i know they dont have control over what information is being spread and they do spread lies. I see the damage social media platforms like facebook spread misinformation has effects on people, i see it in my friends and family. A lot of people believe everything they see on facebook and i think that’s a problem but i also think that if it wasn’t facebook it could be anywhere else, they just want to believe anything, and don’t want to look beyond that because it helps with their narrative, their beliefs or culture. 

Final Personal Reflection Blog [Due. May 14]

In 1,000 words, write a reflective summary of what you learned in COMM 1000 – Survey of Communication Studies. You can use your in-class activities from the earlier part of our class as a guide to help you write this final assignment. You can elaborate on a blog post, a lesson learned, team work, the state of communications field from your perspective, etc. 

This is my first year in Brooklyn college, I am a transfer student from Kingsborough community college. When first starting college i was going for culinary arts, after i changed to associates. When i came to Brooklyn college i knew what i wanted to do, i was told that i need this class for my major, not its not part of my major, so i took this class for two reason because i was told i needed it for my major, and i really want to learn to communicate with everyone. I wanted to learn and I still want to learn more on how to communicate with people and not letting them get the best of me, now to communicate with people and how to keep my cool.

In this class i have learned a lot on how to communicate and which is very important for me to have learned, and it made me understand why something i don’t get my point across or get too emotional, and that is raising my voice, in this class i learned that once you raise your voice, you lose an argument because you already have a bad energy, you already showing the other person that they are getting you mad.

Another thing i learned in this class is the difference meaning in culture, i thought that symbols were or are world wide but even if they are that doesn’t mean it will change the meaning for that culture for example in this class i learned that the swastika has different meanings, i just thought it was evil symbol world wide but in Asian countries the swastika is a good fortune symbol 

Another thing I learned in this class is about black dialect. I didn’t know that was a thing even though I live in a blaco community, even though I have been to a courtroom and “downtown”. I have always known that the justice system is against people of color but I had no idea that they are not understood not just in the courtroom but also with cops which at times  have people’s lives in their hands.in communication is so important that you can understand the message someone message because we create meaning from those messages.

Also I learned the power of communication for example the job of the media which is, giving the public all information and letting the public for itself decide what to believe and what not to believe. In times like those it is very dangerous because you see how the president communicates to the public. Is he spreading poisonous lies  and if he is, does the media report on it? Does the public have a right to know? Or is the information too harmful for the public. So should the media or the president continue to spread the lie or should the media or the president stop it or should the media verify everything the president says, communication is complicated and it’s very complex.what i think is that the media should verify everything the president says before they show in on the news or if they do they should fact check it while it’s going on because it not the president will keep spreading  wild and monstrutions stories which is not helping the public its harming the public and killing the public,

I also learned in this class how to be more accepting of how to understand that the way people communicate comes from influences, comes from experiences, education, the way you were raised, your culture, your language and so much more. I think communication is so complex. So many different types of communication. I learned communication started with spoken word stories,before writing oral communication was the only form to pass your history to your ancestry. Singing is a form of communication about how oral history started.  I also learned that fire was a way of communication that in 150 Chinese soldiers used smoke signals to communicate.

Communication is an everyday function we use, communication is social, symbolic and cultural. When we communicate there is always a feeling behind it that’s why communication is very complicated. A problem also when we communicate is that we are just listening to responses instead of listening to the message and understanding the message when people are speaking we are already thinking of what we are going to say instead of hearing the other person. Also communication creates relationships, language creates different types of relationships and different ways of working with others.

I also learned communication is not easy “if communication is so easy, why do people have misunderstanding,conflicts, arguments, disputes and disagreements”. Communication is not as simple as exchanging messages, communication is characterized by symbols and symbols can have many meanings. A symbol can be a word, a movement, sound, picture, logo and so much more. Communication also requires meaning . Also I learned communication and relationships are interconnected. Any or all communication has an underlying relationship and the relationship can at times influence the communication. There are many different type of communication like verbal communication, non verbal communication, gender communication, children communication, work communication every place has a way or form of communication. Also miscommunication leads to confusion and misunderstanding, the transmission model doesn’t account, the transactional model game of catch.Everyone is very smart and had great things to say which i learned alot from. 

After this class I have more compassion, this class has made me question everything and everyone I see myself when I speak thinking about what am I going to say that is not in any way biased. I see myself giving people more chances, I take a second look at a person i dont go for first impressions like I did before. I think percespection is everything so when speaking with someone what you hear might not be what they saying you take what you want to hear. When speaking with someone dont judge, listen before you speak. There’s always a reason why everything happens, everything has a core. This class has changed something in me for the better, there is no going back.

Social responsibility / ethical concerns

samsung south koreen company was sued by 3 french rights groups because they believe the company is deceiving customers and investors the accusations are of labor abuses at suppliers factories in china, working conditions in china and the use of child labor at two extrnal plants. Samsung is saying that all claims are not true, they did say that they will end in 2014 all illegal overtime work in 2014,Samsung likes to sustain high ethical practices. The claims did affect the company samsung is on the list of global companies they won’t invest in because of social responsibility. By, mindy, simon march 3, 2013

Samsung bangalore office faced some problems. They are being accused of bad management treatment by an employee who tried to commit suicude because he was fired for no apparent reason, with 8 years of experience he worked 16 hour shifts and used the office dorm to sleep. This affect the company very much it looks bad to anyone looking for a job in samsung and on other employees because it shows no fairness and its very unethical

Another company is apple 

A collaborative structure is a business style, which is designed to bring parties together in a long–term relationship to accrue a common goal. The multi-billion dollar corporation, would use a collaborative structure to create an environment where skilled professionals work amongst themselves to accrue goals independent of their locations (Sandoval, 2014). These methods enable efficiency and effectiveness among different talents. This business style leads to more ideas and innovation, therefore allowing Apple to receive more results from their employees (Sandoval, 2014).​

Employment Diversity

Apple is an equal opportunity employer that thrives on diversity. They offer employment and opportunities to all, regardless of age, gender and or disability. Apple offers opportunities to students such as internships for undergrad and or grad students (Job Opportunities, Students, Apple, 2015). You can work on any project, regardless of it being a summer internship or during the school year. Apple also has an Apple-Care college program (Job Opportunities, Students, Apple, 2015), which allows you to work from home in any part of the world. 

Samsung vs apple 

Apple and Samsung are both smart phones, tablets, tv and more creators. Apple and Samsung are in a flight to be the dominant smartphone producer.  Samsung is a South Korea company and Apple is an American company but companies have different cultures but make much of the same thing. Samsung has more market capitalization than Apple as of may 2020. Samsung is the largest electronic multinational manufacturer and apple comes second. But Apple makes more money on iPhones and max books than smangung on its phones. Apple and Samsung are at war most of the time, both are fighting to be on top.

What I have loved and watched since i was a little girl with my whole family are Telenovelas, telenovelas are a staple in the Latino community. A telenovela is always playing in a Latino house. Latinos grow up on telenovelas The best telenovelas I’ve seen are the ones that I grew up on lately. I have seen a trend with telenovelas and that is that spanish networks are remaking old successful telenovelas. The remakes that they have made are yo soy Betty la fea original from Colombia which I saw for the first time and I loved it. Betty la fea has been done in many different channels and different languages but to me none comes close to the original.the first Betty la fea was came out in 1999 and the Mexican Televisa Betty la fea came out in 2006. For starters the generations have changed, we don’t or try to subject women to their looks, Betty la fea is about a woman that is ugly but very smart everyone makes fun of her because he is ugly but she has the heart of gold. Some still see women as an object as nothing else than beauty, I think that’s why the rest of Betty la fea were not successful. We can also understand another thing from Betty la fea how it was made in 1999 and a different culture and it has been able to transform itself to different cultures and different languages. Which I didn’t understand before is that Betty la fea is many stories it comes from many stores we grew up with like the ugly duckling/ like Cinderella and so many more, i think that’s why Betty la fea was able to adopt to different languages and cultures also Betty la fea is a telenovela for the whole family its funny, has many different characters with many different messages and in the end the role is to empower women. There are many other telenovelas that a remakes and most of the time are not as successful as the original like Jane the virgin which comes from the Venezuelan novella which i also watched and loved  Juana la virgin, i also watched Jane the virgin till the last season which had too many changes for me to handle. Another remake is Queen of the South which I haven’t watched but I have watched and love la reina del sur. One telenovela that the remake was more successful than the original is Rebelde which i watched and love, the original is rebel’s way which i didn’t watch. Remakes of shows are very hard to pull off because you have the original audience that might hate it but have a new audience that might love it.

The show that I recently watched on Netflix in The Witcher which I watched in two days, never heard of the Witcher after watching it and found out that it comes from a book. I am happy I didn’t read the books first because a lot of the time tv or movies ruin the book for me. The Witcher is a very good show that is inspired in medieval times. I liked it a lot and can’t wait for the next season. The Witcher is about a Witcher which is a mutated monster Hunter and his name is Gerald of rivia, Gerald goes from place to place in the world to kill beasts that people pay him for to kill.  Gerald is the main character Gerald is very quiet and at times he talks to his horse, he likes to be a loner he doesn’t believe in people and has any trust in them, he believes most humans are evil and greedy. Gerald doesn’t like to talk unless he has too. I feel like his best way of communicating is with his sword or when he is just quiet, that means he likes you or accepts your company. Gerald meets Jaskier who befriends Gerald even though Gerald was against it, Jaskier starts following him so he can sing and tell his story to the world. This interpersonal relationship is a very complex one because gerald doesn’t or seem like he doesn’t want jaskier around and jaskier stays until the end of the last episode which he couldn’t talk about gerald mistreatment. So the relationship is not good or bad, I really think it’s a good relationship. The only real relationship or friend Gerald has is the only person he gets to talk to on the road and keeps him company they both keep each other company. Jaskier is a singer he is a very talkative person, he is always talking while Gerald is always quiet and analyzing the situation, jaskier doesn’t think before he speaks while Gerald analyzes every word and every response. At the end of the episode when jaskier left gerald was very sad, he took him for granted he has been alone for such a long time that he forgot how to have interpersonal relationships, when he did it was with fear and always knowing they will end, because his delusion in people is greater than his need of relationships.

If I were a character in this show, I hardly see myself in any of the characters because I think all the characters are complicated and I perceive myself as not complicated. The reason the characters are complicated is because they all have problems communicating, they don’t speak enough and when they do they don’t see what they really want, they expect the other person to understand what they are saying without saying it. The most talkative and uncomplicated character is Jaskier and i think he talks too much and when you talk too much is a problem, saying too much brings problems, he doesn’t know when to speak, i think i know when to speak or i try to know when to speak. But if i would have to be a character it would be Trisis of Merigold, trisis is friend of Gerald and everyone and she is also in love with him but her friend is also in love with him, so she loves him from silence  because her friendship to both is more important than her love, Trisis is selfless well to me that makes her selfless and i am selfless well I like to think i am. Trisis is and is not very talkative. She says enough, she says what you want to hear to understand you and your interest, she is very smart and uses communication to her advantage and knows how to use communication to get the answers she is looking for. I like to believe that I think before I speak like Trisis, I think I use communication to my advancement and Advantage.

I didn’t know anything about the progressive movement before 2016 when Bernie Sanders was running against Hilary Clinton, i didn’t get so involved into until the primary which i guess was too late, but i still didn’t get into it fully. After the election was a whole different thing. A lifetime Democrat, I became a progressive for the first time i think in my family history someone was other than a Democrat. 

Not the first time i got involved with politics, when i was younger my father used to take me to his political event, he learned it from my grandfather who was also involved in politics not hold high office but have a passion for it. I didn’t realize the impact that left on me, now I am kinda obsessed with politics, especially progressive politics.

Progressivism started as a social movement and then became a political movement, progressive believe in providing good education, a good workplace for all, social change, fair law for everyone, wealth stability for all, health care for all, and a safe environment for everyone and if that is done a society will be fair for all.https://www2.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/progressive-era.cfm

Progressive fights for the voters not the donors, that’s something i pulled me in, also i believe in money out of politics, America is for the people by the people not only for the wealthy. I know people that work twice have hard or more than one percent and will never see that kind of money or will have that kind of power. I believe that healthcare is a human right not just for the wealthy , it hurts to see people die because they can’t afford to live anymore, people want a change i want a change, it’s time for a change, it’s time for a revolution. The rich/1percent are so out of touch with what the working class is dealing with, what the young people are dealing with, what the environment is dealing with. If they are less than us why do they get to decide how we live, or just how everything in this country works, we have the voice we need to join together to make ourselves heard. Follow justice Democrats because they fight for your interest not the rich.https://www.justicedemocrats.com/home

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