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Who would have thought we’d make it this far this fast? That was how I began my first blog post with regards to the ever-evolving technology, but it also remains applicable to the journey we’ve made in this course. It’s no exaggeration to say that the concepts I’ve learned here helped me grow as aContinue reading “Final Reflections”

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How is this film an example of witnessing vs bearing witness? What examples can you note of proactive and accidental witnessing? Based on the 16 minute clip assigned, I could tell that Killing Gaza (Blumenthal, 2018) is an example of bearing witness; the filmmaker clearly traveled to Gaza with the intention of documenting human rightsContinue reading “Killing Gaza – Reflection”

Sound C/ R/ U N/ H/ T M? Close/ Far Birds chirping C N M Close Cat U N   Far Motorcycle R T M Close Car R T M Close Dog bark U N   Far Kitchen utensils R H   Far Brakes R T M Close Metal R H   Far Fly buzzingContinue reading “Class Exercise 4 – Sound”

Rumor: American congress commences session with verses from the holy Quran out of fear from the Coronavirus. (Rasd News, 2020) Truth: A three year old video showing President Donald Trump attending a session to support religious diversities in the Washington National Cathedral -an official tradition implemented by a president when taking up the reins ofContinue reading “Example of Fake News”

E-Guerilla Tactics Creating an international network of information sharing. Formulating a chat forum between the urban revolutionaries and EZLN for decision-making. Translating communiques into various languages in the chat rooms to discuss the well being of the Zapatistas. “Cross-cultural dialogical praxis was the EZLN’s most powerful strategy of resistance, unification, and survival. Ford & GilContinue reading “E-guerilla Tactics & Palestinian Cyber-Activists”

Al-Hudood (The Limits) is an Arabic newspaper launched in 2013 by a group of young people in Jordan. The paper “uses satire to reveal serious and often dark realities about the world we live in” (Stuart, 2016), and can often be referred to as the middle-eastern equivalent of the Onion (Stuart, 2016; Shaheen, 2018). ItsContinue reading “Independent Journalism in Jordan”

In Forde’s study (2011) on alternative and independent journalism, she mentions that the terms independent and alternative may be used interchangeably to deliver the same meaning (which several theorists and media researchers still haven’t agreed on a single term to describe it). How does this type of media differ from “mainstream” or conventional media? AtContinue reading “Independent/ Alternative Media”