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Fall 2018

COMM 233A

Sungyeon Ahn

William Andries

Kamal Apatira

Georges Azouri

Faith Blakey

Colleen Kelly

Benjamin May

Pia Ocvirk

Natalie E. Raskas

Helina Samson

Ryan Scott

Sydney Secuskie

Sarah Selzer

Abigail Smith

Griffin Spurgin

Jarrod Stiver

Aleysha Ward

Theresa R. Weigel

Jackson Williams

Joseph S. Zanca

COMM 233C

Caleb Baue

Jonathan Bonilla

Frederick Coudret

Destiney Davis

DaBreonna Doss

Christopher Douglas

Cailey Griffin

Gunter Jaeger

Emmanuel Koutsouras

Yongjie Li

Katharine McLean

Brogan Miller

Joshua Mundell

Richard Pasch

Daniel Scotto

Ryan Smith

Nathan Stapleton

Leda Turpen

Margaret Wagenbrenner

Kenneth West

CONSUMER SURVEILLANCE IN THE 21st CENTURY

By Jonathan Bonilla Let's say you are surfing through the Internet or diving into random YouTube videos, and you see ads either playing a small promotional video for a service or a vivid photo of some random product. Now a days, the ads you see popping up on your laptop or social media page is not by luck or random chance; it is all by design. Marketers are changing up the game in which they showcase and sell to consumers in many digital spaces. They want to get smarter, faster and better in understanding what consumers like you and me desire. The world humans currently are moving into is heavily driven by data. Marketers are now taking an exploiting view, “instead of merely seeing data gathered about consumers as a guide to their product preferences and interests, such data is being used to refine mechanisms of shaping decisions, behaviors, and habits” (Nadler & McGuigan, 2018). There has been a major boom of consumer data by which marketers and advertisers need resources t...

SHAMELESS: MORE THAN ENTERTAINMENT

By Natalie Raskas Social class identification has become increasingly vague in recent years. Most Americans consider themselves middle class whether they technically qualify or not (Martin, 2018). However, the lower class, making up around 29% of the population, is still the socio-economic minority in America (Geewax, 2015). One could argue that most middle- and upper-class Americans have no clue about the common struggles and daily challenges members of the lower-class face. Popular culture, specifically television is one of the primary ways people are exposed to different classes, other than their own. Sadly, such entertainment can propagate broad misconceptions about the lower class, as is evident in the wildly popular Shameless television series. Shameless , developed by John Wells is an American TV show based on an original produced in the U.K. The show depicts a family, “The Gallaghers,” with six children ran...

MISREPRESENTATION OF INDIANS IN AMERICAN FILM

By: Graham Jaeger Minorities have always been misrepresented and stereotyped within American media. More specifically, Indians have had a very hard time getting past these false depictions of themselves, especially because of how they are portrayed on television. One show that does a great job of provoking thought on the treatment of how Indian men are represented comes from the Netflix Sitcom titled Master of None . Within this show, they make it clear to the audience that the media heavily relies on a prejudiced view of Indian men. This is mainly because Indian men are often objectified as “weird and amusing” (Pfeiffer, 2016). A lot of times, the media uses these stereotypes about the Indian culture as a joke in order to make the audience laugh. Racism has been around for hundreds of years and will constantly linger for as long as I live because of this exact culture that we live in today. A major problem with racism is how the media portrays Indian men through these stereotypes...

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