{"id":369,"date":"2021-08-25T22:46:12","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T02:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=369"},"modified":"2021-08-25T22:46:12","modified_gmt":"2021-08-26T02:46:12","slug":"keyword-post-1-new-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/08\/25\/keyword-post-1-new-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Keyword Post #1: New Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Overall, author Lisa Gitelman suggests that the purpose of new media is \u201cto study the contemporary moment\u201d and follows the \u201cperennial newness of media\u201d. In her discussion of American exceptionalism, I was forced to contemplate both the advantages and burdens in our current climate of continual advancements in media. Significantly, I believe that \u201cnew media\u201d contributes greatly to our ability to stay connected globally, however, for countries such as the United States, these capabilities in many cases have caused more harm than good. For example, I think of the 2016 election. Our present political social life is fraught with conflicting information and \u201csnip-its\u201d of headlines that make wild accusations of either side. Demonstrably, platforms such as Facebook and Twitter played a larger role in the lives of voters than ever before. Moreover, the U.S. Intelligence concluded through the Mueller Report that groups of Russians targeted voter registration systems or state websites in at least 21 states before Election Day and spread misinformation through popular social media platforms with the intention of \u201cboost Trump\u2019s chances and sow distrust in American democracy overall\u201d (Time Magazine\u2019s Abigail Abrams). Suffice it to say, current examples of \u201cnew media\u201d through advancements in technology such as the Russian collusion can have significant effects on the essential systems of American society.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">&#8220;Here&#8217;s What We Know So Far About Russia&#8217;s 2016 Meddling&#8221;: <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5565991\/russia-influence-2016-election\/\">http:\/\/time.com\/5565991\/russia-influence-2016-election\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall, author Lisa Gitelman suggests that the purpose of new media is \u201cto study the contemporary moment\u201d and follows the \u201cperennial newness of media\u201d. In her discussion of American exceptionalism, I was forced to contemplate both the advantages and burdens in our current climate of continual advancements in media. Significantly, I believe that \u201cnew media\u201d contributes greatly to our ability&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/08\/25\/keyword-post-1-new-media\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5402,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[87686,176550],"tags":[31585,176550,182547],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-keywords","category-new-media","tag-donald-trump","tag-new-media","tag-russian-collusion"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5402"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":371,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions\/371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}