Media Literacy

This song that really stuck out to me as a present cultural resource is “ This is America ” by Childish Gambino. The music video for this song helps reimagine how we consume violence and entertainment simultaneously. It forces the viewers to confront what we choose to look at versus what we choose to look away from. The music video itself shows people being shot, representing the culture of gun violence we in America have come to expect. By just casually shooting people in th

Throughout my life, I always got, "Oh, you don’t seem gay,” or “You aren’t one of those stereotypical gay guys.” I wouldn’t say that bothered me, but it always took me back to shows I would watch with gay characters in them. The gay best friend is often portrayed as overly flamboyant, fashion-obsessed, and defined entirely by his or her sexuality. Other stereotypes I’ve seen are the gay characters being used as comic relief or gay men being portrayed as promiscuous and incapa

Hello, my blog readers. In this blog post, we are going to take a dive into something a little darker than I normally like to go. I will be discussing the rise of the horrible conspiracy theory over the Sandy Hook massacre. This was a horrible tragedy that took place on December 14, 2012, when Adam Lanza went into the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, and murdered 20 small children along with 6 faculty members. At the time of this shooting, it was the dead

My media diet in 24 hours. On Jan 27, 2026 5:30 A.M. — Ground News, Reddit, and took off my Apple Watch I woke up, and before I jumped in the shower, I checked the Ground News app to see if any major breaking news had happened overnight. I also looked at Reddit, as is my habit. I don’t feel I gave much data. I did take a screenshot of the Reddit post, which I thought was pretty clever. It was political, so maybe that data I fed to Reddit was based on my political beliefs. I k

My media diet in 24 hours. On Jan 13, 2026 5:30 AM Reddit I woke up, and before I got in the shower, I opened Reddit and viewed some funny football memes. I was only on for about 5 minutes before I jumped into the shower to start my day.  6:00 AM Insight Timer Every morning, I meditate using an app on my phone called Insight Timer. I use this to track my meditations, and sometimes I'll do a guided meditation. However, I usually just use it as a timer to start my day in a spir