After reading the NYT article about our online attention being bought within milliseconds, it had me wondering how have online advertising and buying habits changed since the rise in real-time bidding? #UWJ201 #301

According to the Brookings article from this week, the people most susceptible to believing conspiracy theories have a "news finds me" perspective. This is especially dangerous in today's world of algorithms. Is there a way to correct/eliminate this perspective? #UWJ201 #301

I'm so interested by the hostile media effect, and (as we discussed in lecture) how it can affect political efficacy, participation, and aggressive confrontation. It feels like it's difficult to escape, but is there a way to overcome the effects? #UWJ201 #301

With our recent focus on how media advertising and online coverage are taking over, I'm interested to learn the effects this will have on how people interpret and acces this news. Because TV used to be an equalizer in news coverage, how will news change as we move away from television? #UWJ201 #301

I was interested to learn in lecture that crime rates are actually not as high as people imagine they are (due to mean world syndrome) I also would have guessed that violent crime was at an all time high. Why is violent TV so popular & accessible if it's so far from the truth? #UWJ201 #301

We discussed in lecture the importance of framing, as well as studying its effects on how news is interpreted. While some examples are worse than others, I'm wondering: is framing inevitable? Can news be completely unbiased? It seems like all news is framed, whether intentional or not. #UWJ201 #301

I'm very interested to learn more about agenda-setting, and am intrigued to learn that some topics are harder to sway people's positioning on - like inflation. What are other significant topics that agenda-setting consistently fails to have a strong influence on? #UWJ201 #301

I'm fascinated by the graphic we discussed in lecture that showed the consolidation of which bigger companies own which smaller media platforms. With more consolidation and mergers likely to occur, what kind of implications will this have on content distribution and consumption? #UWJ201 #301

I wonder to what extent news sites play off of internet search habits. As we discussed in class with charts displaying when people were searching for news updates, I'm curious to see if the biggest and "loudest" sites post their most engaging content when the most people are online. #UWJ201 #301